In this mailing:
- Bassam Tawil: Thousands of
Muslim Women Raped, Tortured, Killed in Syrian Prisons
- Uzay Bulut: Terrorists
Promoted, Victims Ignored
by Bassam Tawil • March 25, 2019
at 5:00 am
- The plight of the
Palestinian women in Syria is an issue that does not seem
bother Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
These leaders are too busy fighting and inciting violence
against each other, against Israel and the US. They have completely
forgotten about the suffering of their people in an Arab
country such as Syria.
- These women, who are
being subjected to rape and various forms of torture in Syrian
prisons, are the victims of failed Palestinian leaders who
seem to only care about holding on to their bank accounts and
their jobs.
- Not a single Fatah
or Hamas official -- or the United Nations or Western
so-called human-rights groups -- has spoken out against the
plight of Palestinian women in Syria. Why should they, when
all they do most of their time is throw mud at each other
while at the same time continuing to incite their people
against Israel and the US?
The
Palestinian women being held in Syrian prisons, subjected to rape
and various forms of torture, are the victims of failed Palestinian
leaders who seem to only care about holding on to their bank
accounts and their jobs. (Image source: iStock. Image is
illustrative and does not represent any person in the article.)
For Palestinian women in Syria, there was no reason
to celebrate International Women's Day, an event commemorated
around the world earlier this month. While in many countries women
were celebrating, a report published by a human rights
organization, the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, revealed
that 107 Palestinian women were being held in harsh conditions in
Syrian prisons.
The Palestinian women, according to the Action Group
for Palestinians of Syria, were arrested by the Syrian authorities
after the beginning of the civil war in that country in 2011.
"The Syrian security authorities are continuing to hold dozens
of Palestinian refugee women since the beginning of the war in
Syria," the Group said. The Group's researchers said they were
able to document the cases of 107 Palestinian women who are still
being held in prison; 44 from the Damascus area, 12 from the city
of Homs, four from the city of Daraa and 41 from different parts of
Syria.
by Uzay Bulut • March 25, 2019 at
4:00 am
- "An estimated
3,100 Yazidis were killed [in Iraq], with nearly half of
them... either shot, beheaded, or burned alive... The
estimated number kidnapped is 6,800... All Yazidis were
targeted... but children were disproportionately
affected." — PLOS Medicine, 2017.
- By contrast, Shamima
Begum said that she had been fully aware of the beheadings and
other atrocities committed by ISIS before going to Syria.
"I knew about those things and I was okay with it,"
she said. "Because, you know, I started becoming religious
just before I left. From what I heard, Islamically, that is
all allowed." When asked whether she had questioned any
of that, Begum replied, "No, not at all."
- "[W]e recently
learned of the 50 [Yazidi women and children]... who were
beheaded. Meanwhile, those people who raped and killed our
women are free to go back to their countries and live normal
lives. This makes us feel that we have no value as human
beings..." — Salim Shingaly, a Yazidi activist from Iraq,
to Gatestone Institute.
The Iraqi
government and the UN recently began exhuming a mass grave in
Sinjar, in the presence of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad,
whose slain relatives are believed to have been buried in the area.
Pictured: Nadia Murad speaks at the National Press Club on October
8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
A group of Yazidis who held a demonstration outside
the White House on March 15 called on the Trump administration to
locate or rescue the estimated 3,000 women and children captured,
held or killed by ISIS terrorists.
The protestors pointed to the recent incident in
which ISIS fighters, fleeing one of their last strongholds in
eastern Syria, beheaded of 50 Yazidi women who had been as sex
slaves by the ISIS terrorists.
Most participants at the rally were survivors of
ISIS's 2014 genocidal attacks on Yazidis, a persecuted non-Muslim
minority indigenous to Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
According to a 2017 study published in the weekly
journal, PLOS Medicine, in a matter of days in August 2014,
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