New
Age Islam News Bureau
18
February 2021
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‘Next Time, There Would Be No Mistake’: Taliban Militant Threatens Malala
Yousafzai on Twitter
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Muslim Groups Canvass for Hijab Wearing In Kwara Schools in Nigeria
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'Historic Reforms to Empower Women Have Put Saudi Arabia On Top Of Global List'
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Sopko Emphasizes Importance of US Support to Afghan Women
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The Untold Tragedy of Iraq's Shia Turkmen Women Enslaved By Islamic State
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Indian-Born
Saleha Jabeen First Female Muslim Chaplain to Graduate from the US Military's
Chaplain Course
Saleha
Jabeen first female Muslim chaplain
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FEB
18, 2021
Saleha
Jabeen, US military's first India-born female Muslim chaplain, has graduated
from Air Force Basic Chaplain Course, vowing to take her duty as a spiritual
mentor very seriously.
The
historic graduation ceremony was held on February 5, an official statement said
on Wednesday.
Jabeen
said she was grateful for the opportunity and aware of the responsibility that
she has to set an example and show that there is a place in the military for
anyone who wants to serve.
"I
did not have to compromise on any of my religious beliefs or convictions. I am
surrounded with people who respect me and are willing to receive what I bring
to the table as a woman, a faith leader, and an immigrant,” she said.
"I
am provided with numerous opportunities to learn and develop skills that best
equip me to be a successful officer and a chaplain in a pluralistic
environment,” Jabeen said.
Jabeen
was commissioned in December as a Second Lieutenant at the Catholic Theological
Union in Chicago, becoming the first female Muslim chaplain in the Department
of the Defense. She came to the United States 14 years ago as an international
student.
"I
get to provide spiritual care to all service members, guardians and families
and advise the commanders on religious and moral matters regardless of my
faith, ethnicity or gender. Like our boss says, it has never been a better time
to serve as a chaplain in the US Air Force Chaplain Corps,” she said.
Capt.
John Richardson, Air Force Chaplain Corps College staff chaplain, said that his
goal is to create chaplains who are ready to provide front-line ministry upon
graduation.
"They
are trained to lead the units they serve spiritually. The bottom line is to
care for Airmen - every single Airman. When they care for Airmen in a
professional way, every other aspect of our calling falls into place: advising
leaders and providing for the religious needs of our force,” Richardson said.
Capt.
Mara Title, Air Force Chaplain Corps College staff chaplain, said Jabeen’s
addition to the chaplain corps will be of great benefit to everyone.
"The
Air Force Chaplain Corps endeavors to promote diversity in all respects,” Title
said.
"Chaplain
Saleha Jabeen’s presence enables an even broader scope of spiritual care for
our Airmen, and for this we are very grateful. She is as determined to take on
the role of chaplain as she is kind, caring and compassionate. We are thrilled
to have had the opportunity for her to graduate with the class of BCC 21A,” she
said.
Jabeen
said she was passionate about her role as a chaplain, and takes her duty as a
spiritual mentor very seriously.
"We
all have a purpose that is specifically meant for us to fulfill,” she said.
"We
must listen to our heart and follow our conviction. It is important to have
people in our lives who model that for us. Choose that kind of mentorship and
choose good companionship. I just want people to remember that God, or higher
power or the values that people uphold, remind us that we all are created with
a plan: to become the best versions of ourselves,” she said.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-military-s-first-india-born-female-muslim-chaplain-graduates-chaplain-course-101613623762069.html
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‘Next
Time, There Would Be No Mistake’: Taliban Militant Threatens Malala Yousafzai
on Twitter
Malala
Yousafzai
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February
18, 2021
A
Pakistani Taliban militant who nine years ago is alleged to have shot and badly
wounded Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has threatened a second attempt on her
life, tweeting that next time, “there would be no mistake.” Twitter on
Wednesday permanently suspended the account with the menacing post.
The
threat prompted Yousafzai to tweet herself, asking both the Pakistan military
and Prime Minister Imran Khan to explain how her alleged shooter, Ehsanullah
Ehsan, had escaped from government custody.
Ehsan
was arrested in 2017, but escaped in January 2020 from a so-called safe house
where he was being held by Pakistan’s intelligence agency. The circumstances of
both his arrest and escape have been shrouded in mystery and controversy.
Since
his escape, Ehsan has been interviewed and has communicated with Pakistani
journalists via the same Twitter account that carried the Urdu-language threat.
He has had more than one Twitter account, all of which have been suspended.
The
government is investigating the threat and had immediately asked Twitter to
shut down the account, said Raoof Hasan, an adviser to the prime minister.
Ehsan,
a longtime member of the Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan as they
are known, urged Yousafzai to “come back home because we have a score to settle
with you and your father.” The tweet added that “this time there will be no
mistake.” Yousafzai, who has setup a fund that promotes education for girls
worldwide and even financed a girls’ school in her home in the Swat Valley,
called out the government and the military over Ehsan’s tweet.
“This
is the ex-spokesperson of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan who claims the attack on me
and many innocent people. He is now threatening people on social media,” she
tweeted. “How did he escape?” Associated Press queries to the military were
unanswered.
The
charges against Ehsan include a horrific 2014 attack on a Pakistani army’s
public school that killed 134, mostly children, some as young as five years
old.
He
also claimed responsibility for the 2012 shooting of Yousafzai in Swat Valley.
In the attack, the gunman walked up to Yousafzai on a school bus in which she
was travelling, asked for her by name and then fired three bullets. She was
just 15 years old at the time and had enraged the Taliban with her campaign for
girls education.
Her
father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, a teacher, ran a school in Swat Valley for boys and
girls. In 2007 when the Pakistani Taliban took control of the area, they forced
girls out of schools and ruled with a brutal hand until 2009, when they were
driven out by the Pakistani military.
During
his years in military custody, Ehsan was never charged. Authorities also later
never explained how he left the country and travelled to Turkey, where he is
believed to be living today.
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/next-time-there-would-be-no-mistake-taliban-militant-threatens-malala-yousafzai-on-twitter-7193576/
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Muslim
Groups Canvass for Hijab Wearing In Kwara Schools in Nigeria
February
17, 2021
By
Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin
Muslim
stakeholders comprising youths and women organizations Wednesday urged the
Kwara state government to prevail on former owners of public schools to allow
female Muslim students wear hijab.
The
Muslim organizations argued that since the takeover of those schools by the
state government, it behooves former missionary owners of the schools to hands
off control of grant-aided schools in the state.
The
Muslim stakeholders said that allowing Muslim female students to wear hijab will
be in conformity with the judgment of the Kwara state High Court of 2016 and
that of Court of Appeal of 2019.
They
asked the state government to direct schools to allow Muslim female students to
practice Islam in all ramifications, “i.e. observing prayers and use of hijab
by female students”.
Addressing
reporters in Ilorin, Muslim stakeholders which included representatives of the
Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN), Federated Organizations of Muslim
Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN), and Concerned Parents/Teachers
Associations, expressed surprise that some former owners of schools in Ilorin
on Monday and Tuesday forcefully removed hijab from heads of female Muslim
students.
They
listed the schools where there are infringements on the freedom of religion of
female Muslim students to include St. Anthony, St. James, Bishop Smith, St.
Anthony and ECWA, all in Ilorin.
Led
by Ustaz Isiaq Abdulkareem, the people said they promptly reported the
infringement on the concerned Muslim students to the appropriate quarters.
They,
however, lamented that at a peace meeting held in the office of Secretary to
the state government on Tuesday, the former missionary school owners, insisted
that they were not concerned about the judgements of the Kwara state High Court
and Appeal Court.
“This
is the time for the government and the people of the state need peace more than
ever before. It should be seen as calling for trouble as failure to act may
lead to people enforcing their rights in the best possible way.
“As
a stakeholder in this government, I appeal to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq
to take bold and urgent step in addressing this issue to avoid possible
outbreak of crisis in the state,” he said.
https://thenationonlineng.net/muslim-groups-canvass-for-hijab-wearing-in-kwara-schools/
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'Historic
Reforms to Empower Women Have Put Saudi Arabia On Top Of Global List'
February
17, 2021
NEW
YORK — The giant leaps that Saudi Arabia has recently made and continues to
make while implementing historic reforms have put the Kingdom on top of the
list of 190 countries that are most advanced and reformed in the areas of
empowering women and strengthening their role in building society, the United
Nations heard.
Addressing
the first regular session of the Executive Council of UN for Women on Monday,
Mona Alghamdi, a member of Saudi Arabia's Permanent Mission to the United
Nations, said women’s empowerment, economic advancement, and gender equality
are at the forefront of these reforms. The virtual session was held under the
item of economic flexibility, including social protection and economic
stimulation.
Mona
reiterated the Kingdom’s full commitment as an effective partner of UN to work
closely and constructively, in line with internal regulations and policies, to
advance women and empower them as an effective partner in building societies,
especially during these difficult times the world is witnessing due to the
pandemic, and over the coming years.
“Despite
the great challenges that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and
its negative effects on all aspects of life, the Kingdom continued to move
toward its goals and ambitions pertaining to the economic empowerment of women.
The Kingdom is witnessing major reforms and transformations,” she said while
citing the report of the World Bank titled “Women, Business and the Law 2020.”
In
recognition of the importance of empowering Saudi women and enhancing their
participation as a full and essential partner in advancing society and
promoting economic development, she stressed, Saudi Arabia has worked on
adopting a package of legislative reforms and introducing regulations and
policies toward the advancement and empowerment of Saudi women, specifically in
the areas of their mobility, workplace, entrepreneurship, and pensions.
“The
Kingdom has taken strict decisions towards criminalizing sexual harassment at
workplace in the public and private sectors by enacting legislation and
criminal penalties to protect women from gender discrimination and sexual
harassment,” she said.
Mona
said that Saudi Arabia encouraged women to compete in the entrepreneurial
sectors by introducing legal amendments aimed at protecting women from
discrimination in the work sectors, including a ban on gender discrimination
from accessing financial services, and sacking of women during their pregnancy
and maternity leave.
“Equality
in the retirement age is one of the most important reforms that are implemented
through equalizing the retirement age for men and women at 60 years of age,
which contributed to extending their years of service and benefiting them from
all benefits and payments and extending the period of their effective
contribution to the advancement of the national economy,” she added.
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/603620/SAUDI-ARABIA/Historic-reforms-to-empower-women-have-put-Saudi-Arabia-on-top-of-global-list
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Sopko
Emphasizes Importance of US Support to Afghan Women
February
18, 2021
US
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John F. Sopko on
Wednesday emphasized the importance of the United States support to Afghan
women and said inattention to women in Afghanistan can lead to a tragedy for
them.
Explaining
his new report, Support for Gender Equality: Lessons from the US Experience in
Afghanistan, Sopko said the "US investment on Afghan women is an
investment in Afghanistan’s future."
“We
must not forget the bitter lesson we learned following our previous withdrawal
from Afghanistan” Sopko said. “Cutting off those whom you have previously
encouraged to rise up can lead to tragedy not only for them, but for our nation
as well.”
He
said US policymakers should consider conditioning US assistance to any future
Afghan government on that government’s demonstrated commitment to the
protection of the rights of women and girls.
Sopko
mentioned that likewise, the US government should also consider encouraging
other international donors to impose similar conditionality on future
assistance.
“I
do not believe gender equality is a zero-sum game. The US can continue to play
a role in shaping an outcome that preserves gains made by Afghan women and
girls by advocating that Afghan women have a meaningful role in the Afghanistan
peace negotiations and that any future agreement includes protections for
them,” Sopko said.
He
said "this key question is vitally important in the context of peace
negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban, and the answer may
determine whether the successes and investment in improving the lives of Afghan
women and girls will be remembered as a lasting legacy or historical
footnote."
“We
cannot be naive about the challenges that women and girls in Afghanistan
continue to face. Make no mistake – though they have greater access to health
care and education and work as legislators, judges, teachers, health workers,
civil servants, journalists, and business and civil society leaders –
Afghanistan still remains one of the most challenging places in the world to be
a woman,” Sopko added.
SIGAR
commissioned field interviews with 65 Afghans – both female and male – from 14
provinces. They represent a wide range of Afghan society and viewpoints their
participation makes “this report truly unique.”
SIGAR’s
new report on women is the first comprehensive, independent government analysis
of US efforts to support gender equality in Afghanistan.
Despite
real improvements, Afghanistan remains one of the most challenging places in
the world to be a woman—with high maternal mortality ratios, endemic
gender-based violence, and limited access to education and health care,
according to the report.
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-170092
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The
Untold Tragedy of Iraq's Shia Turkmen Women Enslaved By Islamic State
By
Suadad al-Salhy
18
February 2021
The
efforts to free Yazidi women and children enslaved by the Islamic State (IS)
group have brought worldwide support and attention, and won one of their number
the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yet
hundreds of Shia Turkmen women also kidnapped in the 2014 IS rampage have been
denied the opportunity for freedom, accountability and closure due to the
silence and denial of their community’s leaders, Iraqi officials, activists and
international human rights organisations told Middle East Eye.
The
militants’ bloody and brutal assault on northwest Iraq in August 2014 is often
referred to as the Yazidi genocide, with some 3,000 Yazidis murdered and
perhaps another 7,000 enslaved.
Barely
recognised amid those crimes, are the hundreds of Turkmen women also taken into
captivity.
Most
are Shia from the Turkmen-dominated rural town of Tal Afar, 80 km west of
Mosul. They were seized in the neighbouring Yazidi-majority town of Sinjar,
where they and their families sought refuge after IS had taken control of Tal
Afar several weeks earlier.
The
vast majority are not even registered as missing, officials and activists say.
And no real official or non-governmental campaign efforts have been made to
seek them out and bring them home, despite information clearly indicating that
they are in camps run by Kurdish and Turkish forces in Syria.
“Legally,
these [kidnapped] women do not exist, as they are either registered by their
families as being killed by IS or simply not present,” Hayman Ramzi, director
of the Tulay Organisation for Turkmen Affairs, told MEE.
“The
men of the victims’ families have been refusing to declare that one of their
daughters was kidnapped.”
Faced
with silence, the extent of the abductions only began to emerge to the Tulay
Organisation over time.
“Throughout
the years we worked on this issue, we usually found out that there was a
kidnapped woman here or there by chance, when a distant relative spoke about
it,” Ramzi said.
“The
families of these women are refusing to admit that they were kidnapped by IS.
We were receiving death threats from some of them when we told them that we had
information confirming that one of their women had been kidnapped."
Uncertain
numbers
It
is near impossible to know the true number of missing Turkmen women.
Their
families’ state of denial and the “deliberate blindness” among men in the
community, as well as the acquiescence of influential government institutions
and Shia political and religious forces, has hindered any attempt at
investigation.
Political
and religious forces have even, human rights activists and officials told MEE,
aborted any serious attempts to free the women and return them to their
families.
Some
local human rights groups told MEE they believe 540 civilians from Tal Afar are
missing, including 125 women. Twenty-two of them, who were held in an IS-run
Mosul orphanage, were freed by Iraqi forces when they took the city in October
2017.
But
international human rights organisations and their federal partners focusing on
Tal Afar and working to return the displaced said the total number of missing
people is actually around 1,200, including 600 women.
So
far, 131 of them have been freed. Mostly this was achieved through individual
efforts, such as families paying ransoms to militants who they reached through
mediators working to liberate Yazidi women held by IS in Syria.
"Most
of the announced figures are inaccurate,” said Nawal al-Karawi, director of the
Iraqi Centre for Women and Child Rights, who has been working in Tal Afar in
partnership with other organisations for years.
“Most
tribes refused to officially register the kidnapping of their daughters. They
consider it shameful, so they refuse to disclose it.”
Without
serious attempts to highlight the issue, no special governmental body has been
established to follow up on the missing, unlike with other communities.
“Most
of the kidnapped women have not been enquired after, and no one has searched
for them, so there is no governmental, international or civil efforts to bring
them back,” Karawi said.
Trapped
in Syria
Correspondence
MEE has seen between the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR), the
General Secretariat of the Iraqi Cabinet and the Parliamentary Human Rights
Committee indicates officials only have a vague idea of how many Turkmen women
are missing.
Their
communications say they believe there are over 450 yet to be accounted for, and
they think the women were taken to Syria, Turkey and a number of Gulf Arab
states.
The
most recent of these communications was signed on 29 December. It said the
foreign ministry was in talks with the Ministry of Displacement and Migration,
intelligence service and a number of Iraqi diplomatic missions to “investigate”
the fate of the "kidnapped Turkmen women and survivors".
According
to the letter, the intelligence service had confirmed the presence of Turkmen
women in Syria in camps run by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia,
including al-Sadd in Raqqa, Abu al-Khashab and Abu Hamam in Deir Ezzor, al-Hol
in Hasakah, and Akkadha in the city of Azaz.
It
also suggested that some of these women have tried to escape to Turkey, but
they were arrested by Turkish forces and moved to Afrin prison on the
Syrian-Turkish border strip. Middle East Eye has asked Syrian opposition
authorities in Afrin to confirm this, but received no response by the time of
publication.
The
letter gave no information on how many women may be held in Afrin or their
condition. Despite saying the foreign ministry had asked diplomatic missions to
seek information on those women, the letter clearly states that they were not
able to obtain “any valuable” details.
For
those seeking the Turkmen women, the letter was a breakthrough.
“This
was the first time for years that we received an official response to our
correspondence with government institutions regarding this issue,” Ali Akram
al-Bayati, member of the IHCHR council and director of the Turkmen Rescue
Organisation, told MEE.
“Finally,
there is evidence that some of these girls are still alive and were moved” to
Syria, Bayati added.
“When
I received this information, I felt happy because this means that there is a
chance to save them. But at the same time I was very upset because we live
under the shadow of a state that does not care about a person, his fate and his
suffering.”
When
approached to comment on the correspondence with the IHCHR, foreign ministry
spokesman Ahmed al-Sahhaf promised to respond after contacting his ministry’s
director of the human rights department. By the time of publication he had not
responded.
Denial
Tal
Afar, 450 km north of Baghdad, is a large town located in a triangle of
territory between the Turkish, Iraqi and Syrian borders.
Like
most Iraqi northern border towns, its society is tribal, conservative and
closed, and women are considered a symbol of a man's honour, and his soft side
that should not be touched or approached.
For
many men in such a conservative society, admitting their wives and daughters
had been kidnapped and raped is an admission they were unable to defend them, a
symbol of impotence and shame.
Local
activists and officials told MEE that denial and ignoring these women’s fate is
an attempt to move on without having to deal with the consequences.
Some
men refuse to even acknowledge the women when they appear to have reached
safety.
Many
human rights activists said they have received pictures or names of Iraqi women
freed in Syria, and asked Turkmen families if they could help identify them.
Most men, they said, refused to recognise women suspected to be relatives.
“When
we show them the pictures that we receive, they get upset and tell us: ‘These
women are dead, so why do you insist on exhuming this issue?’” Salem Geddo,
director of the Orphan Charitable Foundation in Tal Afar, told MEE.
“Some
of them look at the picture for seconds and without focus, then say angrily,
‘This is not our daughter’, although his facial features clearly reflect his
unwillingness to know the identity of the person in the pictures in the first
place.
"They
do not say do not call us again, but they do not disclose any information that
could help in reaching or identifying their kidnapped daughters. They feel
shame and embarrassment. They know that IS raped these women, and they cannot
bear the idea or live with it.”
Culture
targeted
The
Islamic State group’s use of sexual violence was a deliberate and systematic
tactic to humiliate its opponents and destroy their cultural identity.
In
a report on gender-based violence conducted by the Iraqi Al-Amal Association,
the prominent women’s rights group said: "Women's bodies have been
considered a symbol of the cultural identity of societies. Humiliating them
[women] and subjugating them [is a tool to] humiliate and subjugate their
societies."
IS
militants viewed communities and sects that didn’t conform to their extremist
interpretation of religion, such as the Shia, with murderous contempt,
labelling them apostates.
Officials,
activists and tribal leaders in Tal Afar told MEE that, as with the Yazidis, IS
killed all Turkmen men and male children over the age of 12 it came across and
threw them into the Allau Anter well, a hole around 50 metres in diameter and
100 metres deep, located north of Tal Afar.
Federal
officials estimate that the remains of over 1000 people are in this mass grave,
at least 400 of which are Shia Turkmen, while the rest are Yazidis.
"It
was not proven to us that the Turkmen women were killed, although many of the
Yazidi women survivors stated in their testimonies that the militants were
raping Turkmen women and burning them after that, but we have not found any
remains of them yet,” Bayati told MEE.
"All
the evidence and information available to us indicates that the number of
Turkmen women who were killed was limited, unlike men and children over 12
years old.”
The
Islamic State group’s methods are recorded in the testimony of Yazidi and
Turkmen survivors.
They
have described militants commanding every boy to take off their shirts and lift
their arms, immediately killing anyone who had armpit hair.
A
prominent Iraqi sociologist, who has been studying the impacts of enslaving
Yazidi and Turkmen women on their communities since 2014, told MEE IS used this
tactic “to inflict the greatest possible harm on their Shia opponents”.
Shia
political, governmental and religious leaders are convinced that IS kept these
women alive as a "poisoned dagger", exposing sensitivities around
women to undermine them and "distort their cultural identity in a way that
cannot be changed or erased", said the sociologist, who wished to remain
anonymous for security reasons.
According
to the sociologist, Shia leaders are fully aware of what the women have been
subjected to, but believe it is an affront to the community as a whole, and are
therefore unable or unwilling to accept it.
“The
Shia male mentality wishes that these women would die and disappear forever.
They want time to stop at the moment of the kidnapping, as they do not want to
know or deal with what happened next with these women,” they added.
"For
them, women are the soft loins, so they want to push this incident into
oblivion, or deny that it happened. But the presence of victims hinders or
delays this."
Marginalised
Over
recent years, Iraq’s Shia forces have dominated politics and security, and
controlled most of the state’s financial and human resources. They have used
these considerable resources in efforts to free Yazidi women from IS captivity.
Yet they have invested next to nothing to liberate Shia Turkmen women.
In
fact, they used the same resources to cover up this issue and try to keep local
and international media and civil society organisations away from it,
officials, lawmakers and activists told MEE.
Moreover,
since 2015 they have worked hard in the parliament to prevent any explicit
mention of kidnapped Shia women being included in draft legislation targeting
IS militants’ gender-based violence.
Shia
political forces have been careful to frame the Turkmen women’s tragedy as a
marginal part of the Yazidi genocide, and not highlight their plight
separately, lawmakers said.
Successive
Shia-led governments, including the current one, have met and supported Yazidi
survivors and their families. But representatives of the Turkmen women and
their relatives have been received no more than three times, a federal official
involved in this file told MEE. In two of these meetings, the Turkmen survivors
were introduced as part of the Yazidi delegations, officials and activists
said.
The
22 Turkmen women freed from the Mosul orphanage and returned to Tal Afar have
received no rehabilitation or official care or compensation, despite living in
“very poor conditions” and often with distant relatives as their immediate
family were either killed or captured, the Tulay Organisation's Ramzy said.
Human
rights groups invested in their plight are few, poorly funded and stretched
thin.
The
only support offered to these women is monthly payments of 100,000-300,000
dinars ($70-$200) from the al-Hakim Charitable Foundation associated with Grand
Ayatollah Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim, one of Najaf's leading Shia religious
authorities, activists told MEE.
“In
fact, there is no government position that has been adopted over the past years
regarding the Turkmen survivors or kidnapped women,” said a senior federal
official who worked on this file.
“The
official side believes that this issue is a social tragedy that took place in a
Muslim country that is facing difficulty in accepting it or living with it,” he
added.
“The
official side does not want to embarrass [the Shia], so it turns a blind eye to
it and considers it a sensitive local issue that needs solutions far from
sight.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-islamic-state-turkmen-women-enslaved-tragedy
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