Thousands of Muslim Women Raped, Tortured, Killed in Syrian Prisons

In this mailing: Bassam Tawil: Thousands of Muslim Women Raped, Tortured, Killed in Syrian Prisons Uzay Bulut: Terrorists Promoted, Victims Ignored Thousands of Muslim Women Raped, Tortured, Killed in Syrian Prisons Where are the Media, UN, 'Human Rights' Groups? 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. Continue Reading Article Terrorists Promoted, Victims Ignored 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, Continue Reading Article