Rating chart for girls
This is a translation of an essay titled Meyeder Ratechart published in ABP on 31 May 2015.
Michelle Obama is worth only forty American dollars. Not a cent more. Indeed, even $40 is too much for someone like her in the midst of all these beauties. But what is this? Fixing the price of the first lady of the US? You read that correctly. This is the demand made by the internationally infamous West Asian terrorist group ISIS (now called IS).
An article penned in the newest issue of the ISIS propaganda magazine Dabiq claimed that, compared to the other beautiful girls sold at the market run by the ISIS, Michelle cannot fetch more than forty dollars. Market? A market of girls? Again, you heard it right. There are sex slave markets operating in the cities of Mosul (Iraq) and Raqqa (Syria). Once you buy the girls, you can have as much fun with these girls as you want. You can rape them, and if they refuse to follow your instructions, you can skin them alive, and of course, you can shoot them dead if they try to escape.
Actually, the vile comment on Michelle Obama was made by the wife of a jihadist. Yes. A woman. But the real question is this: what yardstick did she use to fix Michelle Obama’s price at forty dollars? Answer: with the help of a rating-chart. Just like there are boards outside eateries stating the price of say, a chicken roll, mutton roll, egg roll etc, these charts too, fix prices for the item: in this case, women.
Combining massive illiteracy and raw brute force, this Islamic State (yes this terror group thinks of itself as a state) which has occupied large portions of Iraq, Syria and Yemen in order to establish an ‘Islamic empire’ has been successful in luring away youths from several progressive countries and is also giving many rogue states sleepless nights. Now with all their might and pomp, the Islamic state has started the trading of women as sex-slaves in their markets.
And there is no dearth of girls: after occupying most of northern Iraq and imprisoning the Yazidi and Christian families residing there, these ISIS terrorists are separating the young female members from the rest of the family before taking them to the market and selling them as expensive sex slaves. These unfortunate girls have been raped by multiple members and “soldiers” of ISIS. The desires of the foreign jihadists come first in line as they need to be lured in to the conflict zone.
A certain pro-ISIS website is making vile and illogical statements like ‘It is a blessing and not a crime in selling off Christian and Yazidi girls as sex-slaves. It is a suitable punishment for these families as they rejected Islam for some other faith’ and ‘Imprisoning and selling female kaffirs as sex slaves is supported by the Sharia.’
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The same website also claimed this:
‘We have information that the demand of cows and girls have reduced in the market and this is affecting the revenue of the Islamic State and causing problems for the mujahedeen. Keeping this in mind we have brought certain changes to the prices of the Christian and Yazidi girls as given below:
1-9 year old – 172$
10-20 year old – 129$
20-30 year old – 86$
30-40 year old- 56$
50 and above- 43 $
One cannot keep more than three sex-slaves. Only the mujahedeen from Turkey and Central Asian countries can keep more than three sex- slaves in discount prices.
One and three year old sex slaves? What kind of sexual pleasure are these terrorists seeking? Only the lowest form of despicable scum can seek sexual pleasure from these children. Some also claim that girls from this age-group are kept unscathed, well-fed and nurtured in order to sell them when they are old enough. In other words, these girls are more like an ‘investment.’ And a healthy one since the demand for young sex-slaves is sky high.
How young do these slaves need to be? Can a pre-pubescent girl be sexually enjoyed? The website answers: If the girl’s bodies are prepared for sexual acts, then she is suitable to be enjoyed.
A fifty year old Jihadi bought the eight year old Fasida, claiming to raise her as his daughter. That night he took her to his room for her to sleep. The next morning Fasida was experiencing pain all over her body as blood was dripping from her lower waist till her thighs. She had to experience this pain repeatedly for some days till one day she aimlessly wandered in the city of Raqqa and begged for shelter from a family. Although the family gave her shelter, they charged a heavy ransom from Fasida’s real family before returning her to them. Now Fasida is undergoing medical treatment in a camp. When she was first brought in, she was constantly speaking gibberish, and then went silent for two months.
There is also the sorry tale of the nine year old who is now pregnant after being repeatedly raped by nine jihadists. Although she is rescued, it will be impossible to save her life: whether she gives birth or goes for abortion, her life cannot be saved.
And this is the kind of sadistic pleasure these terrorists like to experience. According to them, ‘Once they grow old, they will realize what is rape and sexual assault. At this age they are not aware of such things and that is where the fun is! We get our kick from their innocence!’
And this is not the act of a few demented individuals but the desire of many Jihadis that is fulfilled by ISIS. With calculated precision they kidnap and imprison these girls in some abandoned house, or in the hangout of a leader or in a brothel, before auctioning them, which is at times substituted by ‘rape lotteries.’
‘Bring that eight year old girl , also get that sexy twenty year old in the corner and the feisty one sitting below window number three. And let the others tremble as they wait their turn.’
Those who are selected are given a bath akin to the sacrificial lamb before slaughter. If she disobeys, whip her, pull her by the hair, drag her sorry body around, bang her head against the wall. After she goes through all the pain, lock her up in the dark chambers. Once her health improves, restart the process all over again.
Jalila , a twenty year old girl pleaded multiple times to let her go. She was allowed to rest after being forced to have sex with seven men. When Rashida realized it’s her turn, she was desperately looking for a way out. While taking a bath she found a bottle containing a strangely-coloured liquid. On correctly comprehending it to be poison, she and the other girls consumed it. But the defective poison betrayed them, as they only fell sick.
Eleven year old Zamara did successfully commit suicide, by tying her scarf around her neck and hanging herself. But this was after seven men raped her. A girl named Wafa informed Amnesty International that she and her sister attempted to end each other’s lives one night by throttling the other’s throat mustering all their physical strength. But their activity awakened the other girls who prevented them from dying. They were unable to speak for a month.
Zainab successfully escaped after attempting to commit suicide about seven times: three times by slitting her veins, and the remaining, by attempting to hang herself. Each time she was saved by her captors who thrashed her so badly that even the most battered bruises will pale in comparison. After her first failed attempt, she was sold to a Lebanese man. While trying to escape from him, she was caught and returned to Iraq. As punishment for her third attempt, she was locked in a dark chamber for two days. Yet she did not relent. It was then that her captors took her to the middle of the desert area and kept her locked in a caravan with seven other sex slaves. In spite of being sex-slaves, these girls were made to clean the caravan wash all the clothes of the jihadists. Even a whimper would get these girls the worst beating of their lives.
Once Zainab was beaten so badly that she was unable to speak for weeks. Yet she did not give up. One night when the “commanders” were engaged with two other girls in the caravan, she and six other captives escaped from the caravan through a narrow opening. After meandering in the desert aimlessly for days without food and water, they arrived at a town and asked one of the residents for shelter. Even though the landlord refused, his son agreed in the hope getting a hefty ransom. And he succeeded in getting the ransom from the families of the six girls before releasing them. The girls are in different camps now. Zainab found out much later that the two girls who were fulfilling the desires of the ISIS “commanders” that night tried to escape later, only to be shot in the head.
Even now, about three thousand Yazidi and Christian girls are imprisoned by the IS terrorists. Some are lamenting, ‘What can we do? This is collateral damage of a massive invasion.’ This is incorrect. This is not just about raping young girls, it is about having a steady supply of girls to run their markets. This is the vilest form of slave trade. These auctions will bring in the money needed to finance the jihad. Hence the girls are just mere goods to pay for a war.
The world has witnessed multiple atrocities in the form of gas chambers, Abu Gharib, rapes in Congo and Darfur. Now it is the turn of the ISIS to show their model of atrocities. And we the weak and coward human beings will bow and beg for peace and tranquillity.
Finally, i believe i’m seeing beginnings of the revival of the martial spirit in Hindus. Of kshatriya dharma or khattiya dhamma. A true khattiya would head for iraq to defend the yezidis. In my lifetime, will i be fortunate to see hindu warriors leave the comfort and safety of their homes to risk their lives in the defense of the meek, the weak, the helpless, the voiceless and the forgotten? Shame on me that i myself can’t pick up a gun and head for mt. Sinjar and defend the yezidis. Shame on me.
Can we Indians, as a people belonging to this ancient Vedic/Hindu civilization, come to believe that such grotesque barbarity went on in our country for close to 6 centuries in the Mughal / Muslim period ?
What is the full form of ABP
anand bazar patrika or something like that
Thanks
Look how Americans process and discuss Islamic terrorism versus Domestic Far Right Christian Terrorism. Commentators’ response to an article on growing domestic terrorism in the US.
Dennis from NY
Ok, well if 9/11 hadn’t happened then you’re right about domestic terrorism , It would appear, from your argument, that the threat from jihadi terrorism in the U.S. has been overblown – except it DID happen. You can’t ignore that. Since 2002 nonjihadist extremists have killed 48 people (for racial, religious or ethnic reasons). One a single day jihadits killed nearly 3,000. So we should just forget about that threat because they haven’t mass murdered us for a while?
NM NYC
While homegrown radicals may be more deadly than jihadists in US and other countries, it begs the question of why any civilized country should take the chance on allowing in immigrants from regions known for fundamentalist religious violence?
Adam Page New York City
Approximately 500,000 Americans have lost their lives in automobiles (see NHTSA.dot.org) since 9/11.
You are more likely to be killed by your car, your spouse, or your bathtub than you are by ‘terrorists,’ homegrown or otherwise, including 9/11. Get real man.
Andre from Vancouver
I suppose that, to a young black person growing up in the US, the differences between Islamic and non-Islamic terrorism are mostly academic. They will face threats in their lives that are more constant and immediate than anyone else growing in America.
Judyw, from Cumberland, MD
Muslim Jihadis are a threat worldwide. Trying to hide that fact by pointing at home grown terrorist, is way for various organizations trying to resettle more muslims in the US, to take the pressure off the people they want to bring here.
This is nothing but a sneak attack on opponents of visa and immigrant liberalization which wants to eliminate any loosening of control and vetting of people from the Middle East.
This is nothing but a diversionary tactic. We know that hundreds of children of Middle East Refugees have gone to war in Syria, Somalia, N. Africa to fight for the various terrorists associated with ISIL. They all have US passports which means they can reenter the US easily. Does anyone honestly believe that these returnees will give up their Jihad once they reach US shores. Quite the contrary we know that leaders of ISIL, Al Shababa, Boko Haram etc, encourage these men to return and bring Jihad to US shores.
This is nothing but a smoke and mirrors attempt to suppress those with strong conservative views. The left wing has been looking for an excuse to suppress conservatism and they think they have found it. We must not let them indulge in their fanatic effort to silence those who oppose them.
KBronson from Louisiana
100% of the successful domestic terrorist attacks this past week were by racists. Extend the time frame cited by the author back one day and over 98% were by Muslims. You can make any point that you care to make by setting the parameters.
David in Toledo
Some of these comments seem to assume that “liberals” have sympathy for radical Muslim jihadists. We do not. We do not apologize for them. They are not “our” people.
Nor do we sympathize with murderous right-wing white supremacist antigovernment fanatics. Why would anyone?
Ryan Borden from PA
And 100x as many have been killed by police Police are the largest, scariest and most powerful gang in America. Stronger than all the mafias combined at their height. I guess its just kind of amusing to read an article written by a state worshiping bootlicker that fear mongers about statistically irrelevant fringe groups.
Let me know when the times writes an article about the crimes illegal immigrants do.
Manic Drummer Madison, WI
So what is New America’s point? Are we supposed to shrug off acts of terror committed by Islamic extremists and focus exclusively on the home-grown variety? And who runs New America? Muslims?
Let me also blame Hindu men for some of this. Some Hindu male idiots, including on these websites who are constantly insulting, bullying and being cruel to their own women inside or outside the net, make it easier for Muslim ,men and women to say often, in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi, “There is no difference in the status of women among Hindus and among Muslim. We are all alike.Both religions or philosophies are the same….etc.,”
No we are not alike. But our Hindu men allow this argument, including morons on these websites, who write in ways that are embarrassing to highly educated sophisticated Indian women.
Hindu men also play into this, and I am convinced that many of the commentators, with names like Rama, etc. are not Indians or Hindus. But your editors and others never bother to investigate or moderate. What does that say about you guys?
`Some Hindu male idiots …’ I think you are so insecure in your superior femininity that you do not skip any chance to throw muck at males.
You may sometimes have valid points on certain issues, but it is so difficult to find them in your long harangues so ubiquitous on comments section of IndiaFacts website.
PLEASE don’t feed the troll.
“Hindu male idiots, including on these websites who are constantly insulting, bullying and being cruel to their own women”
Who are the “own women” of the “Hindu male idiots” on these websites that are “constantly insulting, bullying and being cruel”, you calumny monger?
The islamic invasions in India have a similar record of sex slavery, rape, torture, abduction etc. It just continues because that is the nature of Islam. This barbarism is not really medieval: it is just as modern as medieval as pre-medieval. The white xtian west trying to pit itself a modern civilization can use
propaganda and call slavery genocide etc medieval to make its own record
look better, but it has a very fundamental limitation in calling out
what is really barbaric in islam: it cannot call out without calling its
own religion xtianity barbaric.
This is very painful. Rotherham was also painful. Can women unite and do something for these hapless victims of Abrahamic misogyny? I mean the religions that have given a second class status to women/
The biggest problem is that the problem is not even articulated. Alleviation of suffering is of course the purpose, but hardly works as a force that can fight for itself. Because barbarism does not understand humanist appeals or demands. It only bends to a counter force.
To protect civilized life is a human problem, and it would be erroneous to formulate it as a woman’s problem (regardless of how much more woman is a victim of it). As some of the articles point out, the “soft aspects of civilization”, be it art or subtle body studies or woman’s womanhood, it is a civilizational problem. The west made a bad formulation by making it a woman’s problem and tried to solve it by destroying womanhood, making woman “safe” by making woman like a man. Whether that did have some effect, the cost has been too high for society both in terms of destruction of institutions (like family) and in terms of destruction of the soft elements that are indispensable for real civilizational progress.
Very thoughtful and sympathetic, cogent answer. Humanist appeal is out of question. The real worry is that the religious sanction is there and literal adherence to it is prescribed and this kind of appeal always works with the men in whom the beast is strong(I am aware that i am insulting beast in this)
Jishnu, you make the same tired argument that only women can and should caregive, and be full time wives and mothers to uphold or save or help the family.
Healthy relationships are negotiated and are a collaborative partnership, not based on some gender ideology or theoretical ideal that are not rooted in science, but based on what individual men and women want, compromise, collaborate with and cooperate with.
US problem is not women working, and being like men in the work force. it is the workforce not changing enough to accommodate women; single, married or as mothers, and helping men and women balance work life with family life. It is about work places embracing the feminine, while the woman can embrace the masculine without losing her feminine.
Europe has working women, professional women, leadership women and women who head organizations…with policies that also deal with their feminine needs. Angela Merkel has a Ph.D. and so does her husband who takes care of their two boys while his wife is taking care of a nation. The two boys are from his previous marriage. Angela herself has no children, and chose not to for the sake of her demanding work and to be a mom to the two boys who came with her husband. They are an amazing couple and successful, and she is lucky to have such a supportive and promotive husband.
When Hindu men use tired old arguments from feudal 14th century India they give weapons to Muslim fundamentalists who say, “You put them in a duppata we put them in a burqa, You marry them off at 15 we marry them off at 9. You give them only high school education , we give them no education., You turn them into obedient wives and mothers, we batter them as wives and mothers. Difference is only slight.”
So stop the nonsense,,,otherwise you will start sounding like the guys you detest.
Why should we be bothered about what Muslim men say? Theirs is a self justification agenda. Islam literally sanctions wife beating and the Hindu marital vows speak of wife as sahadharmcharini. In the seventh step taken together the woman says ” Sakha Saptapadi Bhav. Our religion gives equal or better status to women. We have to assert it.
“you make the same old tired argument that only women can, and should, be
caregivers and caretakers, and be full time wives and mothers to uphold
or save the family.”
No. YOU are putting that in my mouth. Read only what I wrote. Don’t read what I wrote. If you want to “logically extend” my argument do it logically without making assumptions convenient to you.
Do you know that “man working and woman cooking” IS a white xtian western stereotype and not the way Indian society functions and functioned for millennia? Do you know how Indian skill groups manage their occupations through family and extended family? Do you know that individual employment is a heap of BS that west has to put up with, only because it does not have a healthy society?
Only ignoramuses who do not know where feudalism, slavery etc come from, attribute those to Hindu society. I am not surprised you do, and it is much less surprising that other barbarian predators in search of “arguments” definitely do at least to partially cover up their record by blaming their own atrocities on their victims.
Have you lived anywhere besides your village? You have a frog in the well mentality, and your arrogance is a shame to Hindus, and your abusive language is indicative of “insecure and crazy” men…Hindu or non-HIndu. I have never known you to engage smart women in thoughtful courteous way with arguments rooted in facts…except for saying things like “womanhood is lost in the West” blah, blah, blah. How many Western countries have you been too, and for how long? Do you know the difference between womanhood, femininity and the feminine?
Your net behavior itself helps make the argument that Hindu men are fundamentally colonized to the point where they have to be macho and abusive to women, inside or outside the net, to feel “their manhood” because they don’t have any. If West has lost its womanhood, some would argue East has lost its sensible strong men who don’t have to be abusive to prove their manhood. Damaged Y chromosomes like you abound.
So you first try a fraudulent “response”, and when you are exposed try filth and command my not to respond to you. How typical of a white xtian western fraud.
Who said you are a Hindu? Nothing in your crude uncultured abusive behavior shows you to be a Hindu I have found your discourteous behaviors, making assumptions about me and exaggerating everything…with some hidden agenda. What evidence do I have from your net behavior that you are a Hindu? I have never written to you unless you write to me. But you have followed me around like a stalker and predator. There is something evil about you…And I believe you are not a HIndu and you know it…You are just playing this website for what you can milk from it.
For a change stop writing, summa irre. Third rate.
Ah so now that argument fails, you get down to your characteristic filthiness. Good.
Oh yes….I forgot to say, “Thank you India Facts for this investigative work and write up”.
The impotent Amnesty international for a change can do something daring instead of taking on soft projects in developing countries to while away their time .Nothing is worth more than the honor of human being specially the woman.In the olden times in India Sati was practiced only to escape such atrocities by the Moghul captors .While I am not advocating self immolation , the woman folks should die for their honor and in the process taking away with them at least one such Satanic element . This is what needs to be preached to these unfortunate woman folks .Unless there is’ tit for tat ” these barbaric forces would continue their merry making .
There has been recommendation that women in Pakistan, and other places where this kind of violence is acute, actually carry guns and shoot their attackers. Worry is that if the responsibility of safety and security lies only with individual women then what responsibility will the State take and what efforts will men make? While Indian women, Hindu women, American women, etc. are fighting for “more women in politics, more freedom, more choices, more rights, better communication from men, more women leaders, advanced learning for women, more women in powerful positions, more women in STEM professions, more women in research, sports and business…and at least 50% of employees, workers and recruits in all organizations and institutions be qualified competent women”…..in Pakistan and other Islamic countries the fight is for more basic human rights.
If feminists only focus on the lower end of women’s issues and rights then many educated women, professional women, competent women, ambitious women, talented women, innovative women, amazingly proactive confident poor and working class women as well as middle and upper class women will get ignored.
India needs to do both. focus on women across class, language, region and religion. while countries like Pakistan have to really start from first base and catch up after 150 or 200 years.
It would help if Islamic countries elected more Christian women, Hindu women, Buddhist women, Atheist women to power…
That was Johar. suttee was to avoid molestation from the outsiders but imposed to claim the property But suttee was not common everywhere.
Feminists groups have said that organizations like ISIS, and some Jihadist groups, like in Pakistan, are targeting women leaders around the world. We need to watch this and put a stop to this. World leaders, including men, should be mindful of this and protect their women leaders and promote more women leaders to defy these backward looking organizations.
Ms. Michele Obama is a bright, elegant and amazingly savvy woman. President Obama could not get where he did, as a Black man, Black senator, Black Presidential candidate and the first Black President of the United States of America, without her.
Ms Nikki Haley, an Indian American, though a woman Governor of Conservative Southern State, has done something daring and courageous that even men and Republicans in power before her have not done. She has called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the State capitol and all State government buildings…that hurts Blacks and reminds them of the terrible history of slavery and racism.
It is possible that this courage and daring might make Ms Nikki Haley get elected as a VP running mate by one of the Republican Presidential candidates.
Two beautiful attractive smart savvy women of color. One, a well educated wonderful African American wife of the first Black President of the US and a big advocate for healthy eating and living…the other, the first woman Governor and the first Indian American woman Governor of a Southern State of South Carolina.
Though in the opposite camp politically, these two represent what women can be, can achieve and can do with or without men..in politics, in leadership and on their own.
ISIS is backward system run by insecure arrogant extremist men who want women slaves…not women partners or women allies or women equals.
And these women, in politics or outside politics, will feel comfortable and confident attacking backward systems. Never under estimate warrior women who may be beautiful, elegant, sweet, charming and savvy. But they can become Kaalis when necessary.
Feminists groups have said that ISIS organizations, and some Jihadist groups, like in Pakistan, are targeting women leaders around the world. We need to watch this and put a stop to this.
Blah, blah, blah from MS again
What’s irritating is that these long-winded schizophrenic ramblings that few people bother reading take up valuable bandwidth, not to mention finger energy to scroll past them to something interesting. I wonder if Disqus has (or are planning) a filter option…
the intellectual conversation simply ignores the fact of what is happening in India, and the fate of its women, which is often worse than horrible, irrespective of caste and social status.Let us first look inwards, and think of solutions, instead of wasting energy on the world.
How come you are not being lambasted for being a “Western feminist” when you use words like “fate of its (Indian) women which is worse than horrible”…?
There is deep contradiction and stupidity in lot of commentators. If I appreciate women in leadership role then I am accused of being “too international’. If I mention how terrible Indian women’s status is then I am accused of being a “muck raising feminist” and if I point to myself as an amazingly intelligent woman who should be worshipped for her contributions and should be promoted to leadership roles then I am accused of being arrogant. Indian women commentators themselves are a problem…too many contradictions.
I am deeply bothered by what I see, hear and read almost daily about what is happening to women in india, cruelties perpetrated by insensitive, feudal, illiterate and moronic men of all religions, and in many cases by elderly women mothers-in laws, who should know better, abetted by their spineless sons. I would much rather be a ‘muck raising feminist’, whatever that is, if it serves to highlight the plight of Indian women, who have a long way to go in society, before their undeniably positive contributions are acknowledged.
I would say that the Hindu woman is the one in the most difficult position…because men outside her philosophy and spirituality ignore her talents and abilities, or ill treat and mistreat her (as it has happened historically), while men who claim to be Hindus, like some on this weblog, slight their own Hindu women, suffocate her (psychologically) and play reactive politics that prefers feudalism, or a romantic theoretical representation of women’s liberation, than realistic alliances with their own women…both for the benefit of their women and men.
Muslim women have over 40 Islamic countries in the world to take care of them, or to fight against within a homogenous system. Christian women have better alliance with their Christian men who are promoting them well. If Christian men oppose Hillary, there are equal numbers of Christian men who support her, advocate for her and promote her.
Who does a Hindu woman of India and the world have?
Zero!
Hindu women, if you ask me, are some of the most abandoned, neglected, forgotten, under appreciated and totally devalued women in the world.
And many of our idiotic men cannot see how they are dividing their own community…not the Indian feminist or the HIndu feminist.
We are at the cross roads where if things do not change dramatically, with more Indian and Hindu women in leadership positions in India, we are in trouble as a nation and as women.
Glad to note that you’re on the same page, but it is an undeniable fact that all religions treat their women shabbily, by way of forced labour, child marriages, genital mutilation,sex slavery, lack of rights to life, nutrition and social status, to say the least.That’s why i had said that let us be concerned about Indian women first, rather than in other parts of the world.
… well Saudis have been doing that in India for years, thanks to RajivG and co-islamists.
ISIS is atleast openly misogynistic.