Rebels in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said Thursday.
The UN’s second most senior official in Iraq, Jacqueline Badcock, said, “It is a fatwa (or religious edict) from ISIS, we learnt about it this morning. We have no precise numbers.”
The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), took over large swathes of the country last month and has begun imposing its radical Salafist interpretation of Islam.
Badcock said that if you took UN population figures as a guide, around “four million girls and women could be affected”.
Female genital mutilation is unusual in Iraq and is only practised in “certain isolated pockets of the country”, she added.
She said only 20 families from the ancient Christian minority now remain in Mosul, the northern Iraq city which ISIS has taken as the capital of its Islamic state. Most have reportedly fled north into Kurdish-controlled territory.
Badcock said some Christians have converted to Islam, while others have opted to stay and pay the jiyza, the tax on non-Muslim’s ISIS has imposed.
On Monday, July 21, a galaxy of international renowned figures have called for arms embargo on Israel, accusing it of ‘war crimes and possible crimes against humanity’ in Gaza. SAPA
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these are the same people who were brought in from all over the world by the SAUDIS and other GULF STATES
they are the same people who were armed by the USA, SAUDIS, GULF STATES
they are the same people in the mould of the salafi wahabi saudi taliban al qaeda boko haram et al
they are the same people who were feted by the MJC, ADL et al
they are the same people who made the misguided’s wish of a “restored” khalifat come true
will they now follow through and pay allegiance to ABU BAKR AL BAGDADI?