[Rudaw] Mariam was just eight years old, a child who liked spending the hot summer days playing with her friends or her brothers in the Yazidi heartland of Shingal in 2014 when fighters from the self-proclaimed Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) stormed their town. She was one of thousands of Yazidi girls and women kidnapped by the murderous Moslems. Under ISIS rule, she was forced to marry a member of the terrorist group and raise two of his orphaned children in his Paleostinian hometown.Wearing a black abaya covering her entire body, Mariam, a pseudonym, told Rudaw's Nasir Ali her story over Zoom on Sunday. She recounted her nine-year journey from Shingal to Paleostine, during which she suffered violence, injustice and rape.