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SHOCK: ISIS Orders 4,000,000 Iraqi Women, Ages 11-46, Must Go Through Genital Mutilation
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SHOCK: ISIS Orders 4,000,000 Iraqi Women, Ages 11-46, Must Go Through Genital Mutilation

By Eric Odom
11:31 am July 24, 2014

The same ISIS currently surrounding several Middle Eastern countries it does not yet control, the same ISIS that is building a caliphate to use against the U.S. and Israel, the same ISIS that WE bankrolled and armed, is now ordering some 4,000,000 women and children to undergo genital mutilation in northern Iraq.
I kid you not.

The al-Qaeda-Inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has ordered all girls and women between the ages of 11 and 46 in and around Iraq’s northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations said on Thursday.
“It is a fatwa (or religious edict) of ISIS, we learnt this this morning,” said Jacqueline Badcock, the number two U.N. official in Iraq.
The “fatwa” would potentially affect 4 million women and girls, Badcock told reporters in Geneva by videolink from Arbil.
“This is something very new for Iraq, particularly in this area, and is of grave concern and does need to be addressed,” she said, according to Reuters.
“This is not the will of Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the terrorists,” she added.

Where are the crazy radical human rights protestors? Where are the crowds demanding an end to this evil madness?


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Isis orders all girls and women in Mosul to undergo FGM, UN report says

Report says 'fatwa' issued by militant group in and around Iraqi city could affect 4 million, but doubts expressed on social media

Update: Isis denies ordering girls in Mosul to undergo FGM

Reuters in Geneva
theguardian.com, Thursday 24 July 2014 08.19 EDT



Iraqi families displaced by the Isis offensive in Mosul and northern Iraq at a refugee camp near Irbil. Photograph: Kamal Akrayi/EPA

The United Nations said on Thursday that militant group Islamic State (Isis) had ordered all girls and women in and around Iraq's northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation.
But doubts emerged on social media about the basis for the report. One document posted on Twitter suggested it may be a year old and have been issued by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, the group's previous name.
Other internet comments, including from Middle East analysts, questioned whether the order fitted with the cultural traditions of the region.
A UN spokesman in Geneva said that it was seeking clarity and trying to establish the facts.
Such a "fatwa" issued by the Sunni Muslim fighters would potentially affect 4 million women and girls, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Jacqueline Badcock told reporters in Geneva by videolink from Arbil.
"We have current reports of imposition of a directive that all female girl children and women up to the age of 49 must be circumcised. This is something very new for Iraq, particularly in this area, and is of grave concern and does need to be addressed," Badcock said.
"This is not the will of Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the terrorists," she added.
There was no immediate comment from Islamic State which has led an offensive through northern and western Iraq.
The world body has "zero contact" with Islamic State, but works through tribal leaders in the affected areas, Badcock said. "I can't give you any more details until we have been on the ground to get information," she said of the directive.
FGM, the partial or total removal of external female genitalia, is a tradition practised widely in many African and Muslim countries and often justified as a means of suppressing a woman's sexual desire to prevent "immoral" behaviour.
Worldwide, more than 130 million girls and women have undergone FGM and more than 700 million women alive today were children when they were married.
The practice of FGM previously occurred only in isolated pockets of Iraq, mainly Kurdistan, according to Badcock.
Mosul city currently has about two million residents, more than half of whom are women as there are many female-headed households in the area, she said.
Several more million people live in surrounding areas, she added.
"There are reports of rapes of women, of forced marriages," Badcock added.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...s-fgm-mosul-un

Islamic State 'fatwa' ordering FGM 'likely to be a hoax'

The UN announced Islamic State had ordered females aged 11 to 46 to undergo female genital mutilation, but experts say it is not likely to be true


UN officials insist they have no evidence as to whether the FGM claim had been verified, and it was debunked by both independent analysts and supporters of Islamic State itself Photo: AP

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
2:36PM BST 25 Jul 2014

A "fatwa" by the extremist group Islamic State ordering women in areas of Iraq under its control to undergo female genital mutilation is now thought to be a hoax.

The supposed order by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head or self-styled "Caliph" of the Islamic State, was publicised at a United Nations press conference in Geneva on Thursday.

The UN's humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Jacqueline Badcock, said she was investigating reports drawn to her attention of the directive, which came in the wake of a series of radical actions by IS in northern Iraq and the city of Mosul, Iraq's second biggest, since it swept across much of the country in June.

However, UN officials insist they have no evidence as to whether the claim had been verified, and it was debunked by both independent analysts and supporters of Islamic State itself.

"It's 100 per cent not true," said Michael Stephens, who has been monitoring Islamic State's advance for the Royal United Services Institute, a military affairs think tank. He said the copy of the "fatwa" or religious directive circulated in recent days on the social media, from which the reports seem to emanate, was not written in language that would likely to be used by the group.

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He also suggested it might have been deliberately "planted" to discredit the group, using an issue which is currently of great concern to western activists.

Other users of social media traced the "fatwa" to last year, when there were claims it had been issued by the group in northern Syria. Since then, there have been no reports of female "circumcision", as the document describes the practice, having been implemented or even encouraged by the group in areas under its sway.

The claim was made in a press conference drawing attention to the plight of citizens of Iraq currently living in areas controlled by the Islamic State.

Hundreds of thousands have fled, at first out of fear of bombing raids by the Iraqi government, but more recently in response to a series of measures undertaken by Islamic State to emphasise its hardline Sunni jihadism.

There has been a series of massacres in Shia villages, while nearly all the Christian population has left, after the group said it had to convert to Islam, pay a special tax for minorities, leave, or "face the sword".

The group has also destroyed shrines and places of worship that it believes are idolatrous, including on Thursday, the mosque at the supposed birthplace of the prophet Jonah in Mosul.

Jacqueline Badcock, the humanitarian co-ordinator, said: "We have current reports of imposition of a directive that all female girl children and women up to the age of 46 must be circumcised.

"This is something very new for Iraq, particularly in this area, and is of grave concern and does need to be addressed. This is not the will of Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the terrorists."

Female genital mutilation is carried out widely in parts of the Middle East and Africa, but is linked to cultural traditions more closely than to religion. In Iraq, it is more often carried out in Kurdish areas than Arab ones.

Even if unverified, the reports caused more trepidation in Mosul, the biggest city in the parts of Syria and Iraq under Islamic State control.

Basnews, a Kurdistan-based news agency, quoted a resident saying: “Due to this decision, many girls fear for their lives, not knowing where to flee, otherwise risking severe punishment by staying.”

However, several people contacted by journalists and activists in Mosul said they had no direct knowledge of the order.

The United Nations has made no further comment, though officials insist it only ever intended to draw attention to the claims being made and ask for them to be investigated, not to assert that they were correct.

The UN's Population Fund, which is investigating, is understood to have found no immediate evidence to back up the claim.

Mr Stephens said female genital mutilation was not an issue which seemed to have preoccupied the jihadists. "In areas where they have been in control they have never tried to do this," he said. The group have also been open about their previous fatwas, including the order to Christians, issuing them through acknowledged accounts on social media.

Social media accounts on Thursday showed the heads of eight Syrian army soldiers captured and executed by Islamic State placed on fence spikes in the city of Raqqa for public display.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...be-a-hoax.html