ISIS Against Women

"ISIS Is Attacking Women, And Nobody Is Talking About It"
By: Kira Brekke
Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/isis-attacks-on-women_n_5775106.html?cps=gravity

     Lately, the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria have caused a big commotion. This extremist group had beheaded two American Journalists named James Foley and Steven Sotloff. All people are attracting attention from the attacks of ISIS with the public media except for the women. No one seems to know what is happening to the women. Haleh Esfandiari, who is a director at the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Middle Eastern program, has finally brought attention to the women who are suffering ISIS. When ISIS attacks a village, they usually murder all of the men. Later, the women are taken and separated into two groups: the elders and the adolescents. The elders are taken into slavery. Other villages try to collect money to buy and free the slaves but ISIS prefers to sell their slaves to other fighters. As for the young girls, they are either raped, married off to fighters, or both. These girls are as young as seven years old and can go up to fifteen or more. These marriages with the young girls are temporary. Once a fighter has had sex with the girl, he will usually pass her on to another fighter. Unfortunately, the suffering of these women has not grabbed the attention of the media as well as two men have.
    The events taking place involving the ISIS are quite barbaric. Unfortunately, the women are not gaining enough media attention for people to realize how much they are suffering. Women have always been the target for everything. They never stop struggling. It it always a fight of equality between men and women. Women in the United States and some other countries have succeeded but the women in the Islamic States are failing. Attention must be brought to this. Women are not toys. They cannot be passed around. Women are not prostitutes. They cannot be sexually used then passed on to the next man. These situations towards women must be stopped.