FOX: BAGHDAD – When ISIS invaded the Iraqi City of Sinjar in Aug. 3, 2014, father of four Abbas, now 49, fled with his family up the dusty, serpentine trail that leads to the top of Mount Sinjar. After two days cowering under the scorch of summer, he set off in search of water and food. But when Abbas came back, his entire family was gone.
“ISIS took them,” he told Fox News in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, where they are displaced. “Later, I saw my children on an ISIS website. For three years… my daughters lived with the ISIS boys.”
Adele, now 18, was rescued amid the fall of Mosul on June 30, 2017, and Salma, 15, was found alive in August 2017 after the Tel Afar offensive. His wife and oldest daughter, Salah, who would be 20 now, have yet to come home.
Abbas’ deep sorrow for his fractured family and fear of living in shame is palpable. He and his family are Turkmen, Iraq’s third-largest ethnic group after Arabs and Kurds, yet their plight of slavery has been largely underreported. Abbas is one of very few in his community speaking out.
While much of the world has looked on in horror as tales of Yazidi girls and women emerge — held captive as ISIS sex slaves — numerous Iraqi officials tell Fox News that the tragedy has likely afflicted females belonging to other minorities, too. And even though numerous girls are still missing, many in these communities do not want it to be documented.
“640 of our girls — some younger than 12 — are missing by ISIS. But we aren’t talking about it,” Fawzi Akram, a former Iraqi Parliament member representing the Turkmen and now a prominent aid and community leader, lamented. “We are very conservative. If our wife or sister was raped, we cannot talk about it.”
What is worse, Akram said, is that families are so deeply ashamed that they often don’t want their abducted girls to come back for fear they were violated. If they do escape and return, they face being honor killed.
“I am telling the families that the girls are not guilty, they have suffered and the families must forgive them and take care of them according to the human rights,” he said. read more
Coming to America.
Who will fight back? How can you when our own government flies them in over our heads?
Real men kill those who rape their wives and daughters, not the women who were raped. Islam is demonic.
It just blows my mind that people will see the bad in the **victims** of the attacks, or that it somehow shames their families.
AND that killing the victim somehow wipes away that shame?
WTF kind of mindset believes this shit?? It’s so f***ing infuriating.
Uh, yeah. Just about the last thing the civilized world needs is Godless, devil worshiping, inbred, terrorized, illiterate muslim pigs breeding like women. So if they go back home and face honor killings by their husband/brother/first cousin/son, how is that a bad thing? Praise be Allah Bunchashit.
Lovely culture huh? Keep them in the desert.
Reboot I’m with you, back to the Devil’s Parched San Box with these Animals. They were put there, then kept there for all good reasons !!!
Mohamed fled like a cornered rat when the Mongols invaded. He finally died on a tiny island in the Caspian.