Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) 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 ISIS' previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said.
It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls. For a US government translation of the fatwa click http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/doc/slaves-fatwa.pdf.
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/isis-fatwa-tells-militants-when-its-ok-to-rape-female-sex-slaves
The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond ISIS' previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said.
It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls. For a US government translation of the fatwa click http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/doc/slaves-fatwa.pdf.
http://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/isis-fatwa-tells-militants-when-its-ok-to-rape-female-sex-slaves
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