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Iraq:  The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised as the revival of an ancient custom of using women and children as spoils of war.

In an article in its English-language online magazine Dabiq, the group provides what it says is religious justification for the enslavement of defeated “idolators. The ancient custom of enslavement had fallen out of use because of deviation from true Islam, but was revived when fighters overran Yazidi villages in Iraq’s Sinjar region.

“After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations, after one fifth of the slaves were transferred to the Islamic State’s authority to be divided as khums,” it said. Khums is a traditional tax on the spoils of war.

This large-scale enslavement of mushrik (idolator) families is probably the first since the abandonment of Shariah law,” it said. Dabiq, distributed in a slickly-produced online format, is described by the group SITE that monitors militant publications as Islamic State’s English-language magazine.

The cover shows a picture of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, with an Islamic State black flag superimposed in place of the cross atop its obelisk. Inside it features photos of the group’s arsenal of heavy weaponry and what it says is the final letter to his mother from an American journalist the group beheaded.

The 27 questions and answers translated by MEMRI reveal a systematic look into sexual slavery, answering a variety of questions, such as if one can sleep with two sisters, buying and selling slaves and covering up a slave during prayer.

Harrowing personal accounts from female escapees of Islamic State’s sexual slavery have been flowing into the media over the recent months. This pamphlet’s publishing implies that questions concerning sexual slavery were becoming frequent following Islamic State’s rise. Unfortunately, this strengthens reports of thousands of Yazidi women and other minorities being taken into sexual slavery by the terrorist group.

Bureau Report