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Women are Raped By ISIS Militant to welcome them to Islam

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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.66667;">Sitting on a shabby green sofa somewhere in the #ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, Iraq, the militants laugh and joke as one of them films their excited chatter.</span><br />
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"Today is the female sex slave market day, which has been ordained," explains a skinny, black-clad Jihadi, gesturing at the camera.</div>
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"With Allah's permission, each will get a share," promises another of the fighters.</div>
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"Where is my Yazidi girl?" asks the first, a wide grin splitting his straggly-bearded face.</div>
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The Yazidis are an ancient people, followers of a unique religion that blends elements of Islam, Judaism and Christianity with even more ancient practices, including sun worship.</div>
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They believe in a single god who created the Earth and left it in the care of a peacock angel, Malak Ta'us.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.66667;">But this belief -- decried as "devil worship" by ISIS -- has been used by the Islamic extremists to justify murder, enslavement and rape.</span></div>
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"They took our girls, our homes and our families," says Yazidi spiritual leader Baba Sheikh. "They took all of them. We say our fruitful generation is our children, but they took them all, young and old."</div>
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Noor (not her real name) was <a href="http://datakiss.blogspot.com.ng/p/humans.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #006598; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">sold into slavery after ISIS overran her village</a> in the Iraqi province of Sinjar. The 22-year-old says the militant who picked her out raped her -- but not before trying to justify himself.</div>
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"He showed me a letter and said, 'This shows any captured women will become Muslim if 10 ISIS fighters rape her.' There was a flag of ISIS and a picture of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi."</div>
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After abusing her, he passed her on to 11 of his friends, who also raped her.</div>
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In ISIS territory, Yazidi women can be bought and sold for money, bartered for weapons, even given as a gift; but this is not a simple commercial transaction -- ISIS has made rape and slavery part and parcel of its -- brutal -- theology.</div>
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"ISIS fighters told us, 'This is the rule of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and we must do it,'" Noor explains. "[They said] 'Anyone who doesn't convert to Islam, we will kill the males and marry the girls. They are the spoils of war. '"</div>
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In its online English magazine, Dabiq, ISIS lays out its justification for its brutality against the Yazidis on religious grounds:</div>
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"Enslaving the families of the kuffar [unbelievers] and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah [Islamic law] that if anyone were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Qur'an and the narrations of the Prophet."</div>
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But theologians the world over point out that ISIS's actions have no basis in Islam.</div>
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"The people of ISIS don't represent Islam at all. In fact, if anything, they are anti-Islam," says London-based Imam Ajmal Masroor. "They have hijacked Islam. They have denigrated Islam. They have desecrated it."</div>
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"In Islam taking anyone as captive, mistreating them using them as sex slaves, torturing them and killing them is totally prohibited.</div>
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"That's what God says in the Quran: 'Those people who lose their capacity to use their brain, their perceptive capacity to see and hear the truth, they are worse than animals.'</div>
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"That's exactly what they have demonstrated. There is no room for any discussion on this. It's haram [forbidden], it's anti-Islam and it should be treated as such."</div>
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For Yazidis, the tragedy is so great that their own strict traditions have had to adjust.</div>
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Before ISIS attacked Sinjar, marrying outside the Yazidi faith was strictly condemned. Those accused of adultery -- and even victims of rape -- could be killed for "dishonoring" their family.</div>
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But that is changing, according to Baba Sheikh, who desperately wants those abducted by ISIS to return.</div>
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"Anyone who comes back will be warmly welcomed home," he insists. "They should keep their heads up. They have done nothing wrong. And they should not be worried."</div>
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His words are a source of comfort for the tormented; even as ISIS attempts to destroy the Yazidi people in the name of religion, the terror group's victims may still find solace at home.</div>
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Women are Raped By ISIS Militant to welcome them to Islam

Sitting on a shabby green sofa somewhere in the #ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, Iraq, the militants laugh and joke as one of them films their excited chatter. "Today is the female sex slave market da…

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09 Oct 2015

Tanzania Dams are Switched Off due to Lack of Rain fall

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Hydro-electricity generation has fallen to 20% of capacity, making it difficult for the dams to operate.</div>
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It is the first time the East African nation has closed all hydro plants, which generate 35% of its #electricity.</div>
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The power crisis has been made worse by problems at new natural gas plants, an energy ministry official told the BBC.</div>
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The closing of the hydropower dams was beyond the government's control, said Badra Masoud, head of communication at the ministry.</div>
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"We cannot do anything because of the changes in environment - we are not getting enough rain."</div>
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Ms Masoud said more people farming upstream from the dams was not helping the situation, as this reduced the flow of water.</div>
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"We are trying to convince Tanzanians not to farm upstream," she said.</div>
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According to Tanzania's private Citizen paper, the state-owned power company, Tanesco, has already shut down its major Mtera hydropower plant, which can generate 80 MW.</div>
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The country consumes 870 MW but it only currently generates 105 MW, the paper says.</div>
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Only 24% of mainland Tanzania's population is connected to electricity services.</div>
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The BBC's Aboubakar Famau in the main city of Dar es Salaam says those who can afford it tend to invest in generators because of chronic shortages.</div>
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Tanesco also imports power from Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.</div>
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The government wants to increase the number of people connected to the grid by 50% in the next 10 years.</div>
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Last month, three new gas power plants in Dar es Salaam were turned on, using gas piped from the south of the country.</div>
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But it is these plants are also now not working to full capacity because of technical glitches.</div>
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"I cannot predict when this will be sorted out because of the technical issues - we need to be patient so that all these problems and challenges can be sorted out," Ms Masoud said.</div>
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Our reporter says the country's long rainy season is expected to start in December.</div>
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Tanzania Dams are Switched Off due to Lack of Rain fall

The water level is below normal Hydro-electricity generation has fallen to 20% of capacity, making it difficult for the dams to operate. It is the first time the East African nation has closed all hy…

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09 Oct 2015