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Children watch their mothers raped, monuments destroyed and thousands executed by the Islamic State

July 31, 2014

They have crucified hundreds, executed thousands and left millions without homes. Women and girls have been raped in front of their fathers and brothers, historic mosques and churches have been demolished and the female genital mutilation of nearly four million women (while the claim was doubted) has been threatened. “Gross human rights violations,” are being committed in Iraq and Syria, declared Paulo Pinheiro, Chairperson of the United Nation’s Commission of Inquiry on Syria, citing public executions, crucifixions, torture, rape, kidnapping and other violations. Yet, while the niqab (full-veil) has been enforced with blood and while Christian women and girls are being raped and murdered for failing to pay a ‘religious tax,’ the international community continues to helplessly wag its finger as  the Islamic State takes hold of more towns and cities in Iraq. As many Muslims across the globe marked the end of Ramadan with feasts with their families, the Al-Qaeda linked terrorists circulated a video to mark the religious holiday showing the execution of hundreds in the city of Tikrit. The graphic video reportedly shows 1,500 Iraqi government loyalists and Shiite Muslims being led to a pit in the…


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