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ISIS releases fatwa on how to rape female sex slaves
December 29, 2015
Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on
when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with
them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the
treatment of captured females.
The ruling or fatwa has the
force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known
utterances on the subject, a leading Islamic State scholar said.
It
sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old
teachings to justify the sexual slavery of women in the swaths of Syria
and Iraq it controls.
The fatwa was among a huge trove of
documents captured by US Special Operations Forces during a raid
targeting a top Islamic State official in Syria in May. Reuters has
reviewed some of the documents, which have not been previously
published.
Among the religious rulings are bans on a father and
son having sex with the same female slave; and the owner of a mother
and daughter having sex with both. Joint owners of a female captive are
similarly enjoined from intercourse because she is viewed as "part of a
joint ownership."
The United Nations and human rights groups
have accused the Islamic State of the systematic abduction and rape of
thousands of women and girls as young as 12, especially members of the
Yazidi minority in northern Iraq. Many have been given to fighters as a
reward or sold as sex slaves.
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