WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING – AT 9:41 A.M. ET:  I'm generally no great fan of my former newspaper, but The New York Times is running a superb piece on rape in the Islamic State.  It is stark and more than troubling: 

QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.

He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her.

When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion.

“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she escaped after 11 months of captivity.

The systematic rape of women and girls from the Yazidi religious minority has become deeply enmeshed in the organization and the radical theology of the Islamic State in the year since the group announced it was reviving slavery as an institution. Interviews with 21 women and girls who recently escaped the Islamic State, as well as an examination of the group’s official communications, illuminate how the practice has been enshrined in the group’s core tenets.

The trade in Yazidi women and girls has created a persistent infrastructure, with a network of warehouses where the victims are held, viewing rooms where they are inspected and marketed, and a dedicated fleet of buses used to transport them.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  Then wonder why there is so little concern about this.  Maybe ask a multiculturalist professor, who anguishes over our failure to understand "other cultures."  The hypocrisy just flows.

Oh, remember when such lights as Michelle Obama held up a sign saying "Bring back our girls," after a Muslim group kidnaped girls in Africa?   That campaign lasted about a week.  Whatever happened to those girls?  Anyone still interested?

August 13, 2015