ISIS propaganda magazine Dabiq and social media posts by ISIS members and supporters show how the group views the Yazidi women taken as slaves.
As it has expanded its territory for the past year, ISIS has targeted the Yazidi community, a religious minority in Iraq.
Members of the minority Yazidi sect hug each other on the outskirts of Kirkuk in April.
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According to human rights groups, ISIS has captured thousands of Yazidi women and children as slaves since they swept through the group's ancestral home in the Sinjar mountains last year. ISIS claims that this is permissible because the Yazidis are not Muslim.
Although there have been many accounts of torture and rape at the hands of ISIS fighters by Yazidi women who have escaped, a harrowing New York Times story published Aug. 13, titled "ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape," has skyrocketed awareness of the group's plight.
The article, written by Rukmini Callimachi, describes how ISIS fighters use their faith to justify taking women and girls — some as young as 12 — as sex slaves. Yazidi girls who spoke to Callimachi for the story are interviewed in graphic detail about being raped by their ISIS masters, who, they said, would pray before and after the assaults.
The horrific practices described in the Times story and in many other reports have been defended in official propaganda as well as in social media posts by those claiming to be members of ISIS.
In May, in the ninth issue of Dabiq, the official magazine of ISIS, the group published a defense of the practice of taking and having sexual intercourse with enslaved women (which they claim isn't rape).
Dabiq Magazine / Issue 9
The article, purportedly written by a married female member of ISIS named Umm Sumayyah Al-Muhājirah, claims that slavery is acceptable because it was practiced by the Prophet Muhammad and his followers.
"Saby [taking slaves through war] is a great prophetic Sunnah containing many divine wisdoms and religious benefits," the author writes, criticizing those who oppose the practice, particularly those Muslims who have spoken out against the group.
And as far as allegations of abuse, the article describes the women who have given interviews claiming to have been raped and tortured by fighters as "devious and wicked slave-girls" who have "made up lies, and wrote false stories" about ISIS.
"Some slave-girls in our State are now pregnant and some of them have even been set free for Allah's sake and got married in the courts of the Islamic State after becoming Muslims and practicing Islam well," the author writes.
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