Italy: Failed refugees sue Rome for supporting Libya’s coastguard which stopped them travelling to Europe.

(Rome) Nigerian migrants who failed to cross from Africa to Italy last year have filed a lawsuit against Italy for violating their rights by supporting Libya’s efforts to stop them sailing across to Europe. It appears the numerous NGOs who precipitated the huge exodus by hundreds of thousands of migrants to take to the sea in overcrowded rafts and boats so they could they could be picked up a few miles off the Libyan coast and taken to Europe in which to start a new life aren’t happy at how Italy has supported the Libyan coastguard (LCG) by supplying boats and advice in which to stem that tide .

The newly invigorated Libyan coast guard have cut the number of people trying to get to Europe by sea by more than 80 percent this past year seeing only 6,700 attempting to cross. Over the same period, the Libyan Coast Guard intercepted almost 6,000 migrants and refugees. In 2017, the Libyans turned back almost 19,000. One of the methods used by the LCG has been to ban so called private rescue ship from Libyan waters. The NGOs claim they are putting lives at risk, in reply the LCG says, they have saved lives by removing the draw of a taxis service parked a few miles off shore which has attracted hundreds of thousands to make the journey.

Migrants being rescued by German NGO ship “Juventa” 

So in order to open up the flood gates to Europe again, a so called Human right action group ‘Global Legal Action Network,’ has decided to support 7 failed Nigerian Migrants who were intercepted by the LCG, returned to shore and then back to Nigeria. They are claiming Italy has acted illegally by:

“Using the Libyan Coast Guard as a proxy to turn back migrant boats is just a new way of camouflaging (Italy’s) strategy of fighting irregular migration in the Mediterranean by trapping them in what the Italian Foreign Ministry itself has qualified as ‘the hell’ of Libya,”

In other words they feel their human rights have been broached by how they were caught trying to get into Europe illegally by Libyans in Libyan territory and then returned back to their home countries by the UN. (Usually by air with $200 dollars spending money in their pocket)

If they win their case at the European Court of Human Rights, they are set to win millions in damages, see any support the EU gives to Libya in which to stop virtually millions of Economic migrants from the third world travelling to Europe stopped and risk thousands of drowning at sea as the floodgates are opened once again.

Just what is it about human rights groups and their penchant for promoting misery for all.

Islamic State's extremely detailed ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females.

The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.

For a U.S. government translation of the fatwa click here.

The fatwa was among a huge trove of documents captured by U.S. Special Operations Forces during a raid targeting a top Islamic State official in Syria in May. Reuters has reviewed the document, which has not been previously published, but couldn't independently confirm its authenticity.

Among the fatwa's injunctions are bans on a father and son having sex with the same female slave; and the owner of a mother and daughter having sex with both. Joint owners of a female captive are similarly enjoined from intercourse because she is viewed as "part of a joint ownership."

The United Nations and human rights groups have accused the Islamic State of the systematic abduction and rape of thousands of women and girls as young as 12, especially members of the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq. Many have been given to fighters as a reward or sold as sex slaves.

Far from trying to conceal the practice, Islamic State has boasted about it and established a department of "war spoils" to manage slavery. Reuters reported on the existence of the department on Monday.

In an April report, Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 female escapees who recounted how Islamic State fighters separated young women and girls from men and boys and older women. They were moved "in an organized and methodical fashion to various places in Iraq and Syria." They were then sold or given as gifts and repeatedly raped or subjected to sexual violence.

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Fatwa No. 64, dated Jan. 29, 2015, and issued by Islamic State's Committee of Research and Fatwas, appears to codify sexual relations between IS fighters and their female captives for the first time, going further than a pamphlet issued by the group in 2014 on how to treat slaves.

The fatwa starts with a question: "Some of the brothers have committed violations in the matter of the treatment of the female slaves. These violations are not permitted by Sharia law because these rules have not been dealt with in ages. Are there any warnings pertaining to this matter?"

It then lists 15 injunctions, which in some instances go into explicit detail. For example:

"If the owner of a female captive, who has a daughter suitable for intercourse, has sexual relations with the latter, he is not permitted to have intercourse with her mother and she is permanently off limits to him. Should he have intercourse with her mother then he is not permitted to have intercourse with her daughter and she is to be off limits to him."

Islamic State's rape of female captives has been well documented, but a leading IS expert at Princeton University, Cole Bunzel, who has reviewed many of the group's writings, said the fatwa went beyond what has previously been published by the militants on how to treat female slaves.

"It reveals the actual concerns of IS slave owners," he said in an email.

Still, he cautioned that not "everything dealt with in the fatwa is indicative of a relevant violation. It doesn't mean father and son were necessarily sharing a girl. They're at least being 'warned' not to. But I bet some of these violations were being committed."

The fatwa also instructs owners of female slaves to "show compassion toward her, be kind to her, not humiliate her, and not assign her work she is unable to perform." An owner should also not sell her to an individual whom he knows will mistreat her.

Professor Abdel Fattah Alawari, dean of Islamic Theology at Al-Azhar University, a 1,000-year-old Egyptian center for Islamic learning, said Islamic State "has nothing to do with Islam" and was deliberately misreading centuries-old verses and sayings that were originally designed to end, rather than encourage, slavery.

"Islam preaches freedom to slaves, not slavery. Slavery was the status quo when Islam came around," he said. "Judaism, Christianity, Greek, Roman, and Persian civilizations all practiced it and took the females of their enemies as sex slaves. So Islam found this abhorrent practice and worked to gradually remove it.”

In September 2014 more than 120 Islamic scholars from around the world issued an open letter to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi refuting the group's religious arguments to justify many of its actions. The scholars noted that the "reintroduction of slavery is forbidden in Islam."

Islamic State sells 42 Yazidi women to jihadists in Syria

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Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group on Thursday sold 42 Iraqi women it had abducted from the Yazidi religious minority to its fighters in eastern Syria, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the women were being treated as "slaves" by the jihadists and were sold "for between $500 (447 euros) and $2,000 dollars (1,785 euros)".

The women were kidnapped last year in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq where IS had launched a wide offensive, the Britain-based monitor said.

Earlier this month they were brought to the IS-held town of Mayadeen in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province.

"Some were abducted with their children but we do not know their fate," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

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Ramadan in the Caliphate: Memorize The Quran, Get a Free Slave Girl in ISIS Competition

The Islamic State announced a competition to memorize certain chapters of the Quran. The victors will receive a slave girl.

(Clarion Project) In honor of the holy month of Ramadan, the Islamic State launched a Quran memorization competition, with slave girls as prizes.

Ramadan is a time of year where Muslims are meant to rejuvenate their faith. Memorizing the Quran is a considered a pious and worthy thing to do and many memorization competitions are held around the world, especially during Ramadan.

It is believed to be the month during which Mohammed received the Quran (specifically on ‘The Night of Power’). Reading the Quran during Ramadan is strongly encouraged.

The Islamic State put out the following notice advertising the competition in Al-Barakah province in Syria. Links to the chapters of the Quran that have been chosen for the competition are provided (the translation is the Sahih International version). The chapters selected by the Islamic State include some of the most warlike passages in the entire Quran.

Jihadists also consider Ramadan to be the optimal month for Jihad.

Last year the Islamic State proclaimed a Caliphate on the first day of Ramadan.

Province al-Barakah

ISIS

Announcement

To the soldiers of the Islamic State in all of the departments in the province of el-Baraqa

We congratulate you for the blessed Ramadan month and may the Lord accept from us and from you the fast …

May god deliver us and you from the fire.

The department of dawa in the mosques announces the beginning of a tournament to memorize suras from the book of allah. The Suras are:

Surat al-Anfal

Surat al-Tawba

Surat Mohammed

Surat al-Fath

From the first of Ramadan 1436 until the 20th of Ramadan.

Whoever wants to participate must register with the imams of the following mosques.

The Mosque of Abu Bakr el-Sadiq

The Mosque of Osama Bin Laden

The Mosque of Abu Musab el-Zarqawi

The Mosque of el-Taqwa

In the name of Allah, the competitors will be divided and marked between the dates Ramadan 21st until Ramadan 27th. The prizes will be distributed on the first day of Eid el-Fitr in the name of Allah.

The Prizes for this competition are:

1^st prize: A slave girl

2^nd prize: A slave girl

3^rd prize: A slave girl

4^th prize: 100,000 Syrian lira ($462)

5^th prize: $90,000 Syrian lira

6^th prize: 80,000 Syrian lira

7^th prize: 70,000 Syrian lira

8^th prize: 60,000 Syrian lira

9^th prize: 50,000 Syrian Lira

10^th prize: 50,000 Syrian Lira

We ask the great lord to make your life easier and to grant you with what he loves and what pleases him.

The Dept. of Dawa and Mosques.

The Mosque of Osama bin Laden... Sounds like a terrific tourist attraction on Planet Tranquility.

Shocking video shows ISIS fighters bartering for young women at 'slave girl market'

New Delhi: A bunch of ISIS fighters sitting in a poorly-lit room which resounds with an ugly cacophony interspersed by giggles. What could it be? Are they cracking jokes or boasting about a recently carried out execution? No.

It is actually a scene out of the ISIS' slave market day – a day every fighter gets his “share” — a Yazidi girl — reads the translation on a YouTube video. It shows how the barbaric fighters bargain for woman slaves, explaining how the prices vary according to the girls' physical details; for instance - the colour of her eyes.

According to a video tweeted by an Arabic TV reporter whose Twitter handle is @ jenanmoussa, the ISIS fighters on their so-called “slave market day” also called the “distribution day”, get to buy or sell their women slaves.

The video starts with a man happily declaring, “Today is the slave market day”.

“Today is the day where this verse applies - 'Except with their wives and the (captives) whom their right hands possess,- for (then) they are not to be blamed',” says a man dressed in black tunic.

Another fighter is seen shouting, “Where is my Yezidi girl? Where is my Yezidi girl? ”

“I swear man, I am searching for a girl. I hope I find her,” says another.

One of the ISIS fighters asks others if they are willing to sell their slaves. The video then shows some of the other jihadists who say they do not want their slaves and are ready to sell them.

Then starts the bargaining with one of the fighters willing to offer 1 banknote ($100) for a girl with blue eyes. Another raises the bid to 5 banknotes ($500) and demands a green-eyed Yezidi slave for the price.

An ISIS fighter who looks too keen to buy a girl expresses his concern over the age and physical appearance of his buy. He quips, “She doesn’t have teeth, why would I want her?”

"Put dentures for her...?" another fighter chips in.

The noisy bargaining is interspersed by giggles as a voice behind the camera asks a fighter (apparently a teenager) if he wants a girl and would he be able to handle her. The boy chuckles and nods, 'Yes'.

The video ends on a disturbing note as many ISIS fighters are seen huddled together with one saying: “Abu Fahd, Your Yezidi is dead”.

“She’s dead.”