The Christian Post (26 May 2015) reports that Islamic State militants have allegedly
burned a 20-year-old women alive because she refused to perform what a United Nations official deemed was an "extreme sex act." The same official also disclosed that Islamic State is forcing some sex slaves to be prostitutes. As The Christian Post
previously reported, Zainab Bangura, the U.N.'s special representative on sexual crimes in war, conducted interviews with displaced Islamic State victims in Iraq and Syria, as she toured through five Middle East countries compiling information on Islamic State"s sex crimes, in the period 16 April through 29 April 2015. Bangura provided shocking details of the horrors that women and children face at the hands of Islamic State"s systemic sex trafficking operations. According to Bangura, they commit rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution and other acts of extreme brutality.
Frans Veerman, director of World Watch Research, comments: "It is incredible what Islamic State does with women and girls. Islamic State adherents seem to have a total lack of empathy for women and girls. This for me is the utmost consequence of three important principles of Islam that have found their extremes in groups like the Islamic State. One principle is the fact that
Muhammad permitted Muslim men to have sex with their female slaves, as he did himself. Another principle is the Islamic fear for female sexuality that often causes harsh behavior of Muslim men towards Muslim women and girls.
Lela Gilbert investigated Gender-based Violence as an expression of Christian Persecution in Muslim Lands in a study commissioned by World Watch Research (June, 2013). Gilbert wrote, "Female sexuality is generally perceived as a powerful and dangerous force, a predatory threat to male spirituality and family honor - a perilous feminine element that demands stringent supervision and - because of their lesser value and legal status - leads to grave endangerment to women." A third principle is the concept of kafir.
Jacob Zenn wrote a report about this concept for World Watch Research (October, 2015). Zenn states, "The word kafir in Arabic-translates most closely to "infidel" in English." So, being a woman or girl and also being not one-of-them - a kafir - makes women and girls from religious minorities (or other strands of Islam) extremely vulnerable for radical Islamic groups like Islamic State, as those reports show. Christian women and girls undoubtedly have been part of Islamic State"s victims."
