Isis releases 'abhorrent' sex slaves pamphlet...

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Isis releases 'abhorrent' sex slaves pamphlet with 27 tips for militants on taking, punishing and raping female captives
Wednesday 10 December 2014

The Isis militant group has released what appears to be an “abhorrent” pamphlet providing its followers with guidelines on how to capture, keep and sexually abuse female slaves.

Published before the CIA report into the “enhanced interrogation” of suspected militant detainees, it specifically rules out the use of torture.

But what it does provide is a sickeningly matter-of-fact set of “questions and answers” when it comes to capturing and subjugating those of other beliefs.

Though it could not be independently verified, the list is believed to have been printed on 3 December by Isis’s in-house publishers on behalf of the group’s “Research and Fatwa Department”.

It has been translated in detail by the Washington, DC-based Middle East Media Research Institute, and researchers at the anti-extremism thinktank Quilliam say it “can be traced back to some of [Isis’s] most active propagandists”.

Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Gender and Violence Research Centre said last month that Isis had kidnapped more than 2,500 women belonging to the Yazidi religious minority in Syria and Iraq, while at least 4,600 are reported missing. The centre’s Nazand Begikhani told CNN the women are “treated like cattle”.

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I would love to know why the author of this put the word "abhorrent" in quotes.

This IS abhorrent!

#13 is especially disturbing... even among all the other disturbing ones (which is all of them!). How can these animals call themselves "men"? It's incomprehensible.

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I think the quotation marks mean the author's calling the pamphlet itself abhorrent.

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Dec 10, 2014 23:18:24 GMT -5 ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ said:

I think the quotation marks mean the author's calling the pamphlet itself abhorrent.

While I can see the sense in that, the appropriate thing to do in that instance would be to put "abhorrent" in brackets so it read like this: Isis releases [abhorrent] sex slaves pamphlet with 27 tips for militants on taking, punishing and raping female captives. Brackets are the generally accepted way of inserting things into quotes and other things attributed to others.

I always thought that quotes used in that manner usually mean "I'm using this word out of it's normal context"... like when you say to someone I 'understand' what you mean, when you believe what they say to be complete and utter BS, and don't actually understand them at all you just understand the English words put together to form a sentence.


Either way... it's still disgusting garbage in that pamphlet.

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Dec 10, 2014 23:04:48 GMT -5 @richardintn said:

I would love to know why the author of this put the word "abhorrent" in quotes.

This IS abhorrent!

#13 is especially disturbing... even among all the other disturbing ones (which is all of them!). How can these animals call themselves "men"? It's incomprehensible.

I get the impression the pamphlet is calling the sex slaves abhorrent, rather than the author calling the pamphlet abhorrent.