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  • IS Militants Selling Abducted Iraqi Children As Sex Slaves And Crucifying Or Burying Others Alive

    IS Militants Selling Abducted Iraqi Children As Sex Slaves And Crucifying Or Burying Others Alive

    Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other youth, including by crucifixion or burying them alive, a United Nations watchdog said on Wednesday.

    Iraqi boys aged under 18 are increasingly being used by the militant group as suicide bombers, bomb makers, informants or human shields to protect facilities against U.S.-led air strikes, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said.

    “We are really deeply concerned at torture and murder of those children, especially those belonging to minorities, but not only from minorities,” committee expert Renate Winter told a news briefing. “The scope of the problem is huge.”

    Children from the Yazidi sect or Christian communities, but also Shi’ites and Sunnis, have been victims, she said.

    “We have had reports of children, especially children who are mentally challenged, who have been used as suicide bombers, most probably without them even understanding,” Winter told Reuters. “There was a video placed (online) that showed children at a very young age, approximately eight years of age and younger, to be trained already to become child soldiers.”

    Islamic State is a breakaway al Qaeda group that declared an Islamic caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq last summer. It has killed thousands and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes, in what the United Nations has called a reign of terror.

    On Tuesday, the group, which is also known as ISIL, released a video showing a captured Jordanian pilot being burned alive.

    The U.N. body, which reviewed Iraq’s record for the first time since 1998, denounced “the systematic killing of children belonging to religious and ethnic minorities by the so-called ISIL, including several cases of mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying children alive”.

    A large number of children have been killed or badly wounded during air strikes or shelling by Iraqi security forces, while others had died of “dehydration, starvation and heat”, it said.

    ISIL has committed “systematic sexual violence”, including “the abduction and sexual enslavement of children”, it said.

    “Children of minorities have been captured in many places… sold in the market place with tags, price tags on them, they have been sold as slaves,” Winter said, giving no details.

    The 18 independent experts who worked on the report called on Iraqi authorities to take all necessary measures to “rescue children” under the control of Islamic State and to prosecute perpetrators of crimes.

    “There is a duty of a state to protect all its children. The point is just how are they going to do that in such a situation?”, Winter said.

     

    Source: http://english.alarabiya.net

  • UMNO Lodges Police Reort Over Malay-Language Christian Books Found Among Flood-Relief Items In Kelantan

    UMNO Lodges Police Reort Over Malay-Language Christian Books Found Among Flood-Relief Items In Kelantan

    KUALA LUMPUR — UMNO has lodged a police report over Malay-language Christian books that were found among flood relief items in Kelantan, claiming they could threaten the Muslim faith.

    News website Utusan Online reported today (Feb 5) that the books titled “Isa Al-Masih Kalimatullah” (Jesus Christ the Word of God) and “Kisah Tentang Yesus Kristus” (The Story of Jesus Christ), which contained cartoons, were distributed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) on January 21, together with food items and daily necessities to residents at Kampung Slow Machang in Pasir Mas.

    The news report, however, did not mention if the Christian books contained the word “Allah”, the Arabic word for God that has been the contention of a few court cases involving a government ban and seizures of materials containing the word.

    Muslim coalition Pembela said last month that the Catholic Church must no longer use the Malay language in its Herald weekly as continuing to do so was to challenge the Federal Court decision that upheld a government ban on the paper from describing God as “Allah”.

    Christian compact discs (CDs) and books containing the word “Allah” were confiscated from a Sabahan at the Kuala Lumpur International 2 airport in Sepang last October and returned to him about two weeks later.

    Two cases involving the right of Christians to use the word “Allah” remain pending in court, which are Sarawakian Jill Ireland Lawrence Bill’s suit against the Home Ministry for confiscating her Christian CDs and the Sabah Sidang Injil Borneo church’s suit over the seizure of children’s books.

     

    Source: www.themalaymailonline.com

  • Wefie Of Palestinian With Chasing Israeli Soldiers Goes Viral But It’s Not What You Think

    Wefie Of Palestinian With Chasing Israeli Soldiers Goes Viral But It’s Not What You Think

    As far as band promotions go, taking a selfie while “being chased by the Israeli Defence Force” has got to be right up there with the most daring – and controversial.

    The image, posted to Twitter by the Palestinian hip hop trio DAM, has exploded across social media, with the official version receiving more than 15,000 retweets in less than 24 hours.

    Unfortunately, part of the reason for that seems to be that people genuinely believe it shows a man with the audacity to grab a quick selfie while fleeing from armed police.

    The group’s website describes DAM – or Da Arabian MCs – as “the first Palestinian hip hop crew and among the first to rap in Arabic, [who] began working together in the late 1990s”.

    And to the credit of a number of Twitter users, many have pointed out that the selfie actually appears to simply feature band members Suhell Nafar, Tamer Nafar and Mahmoud Jreri – with two of them in “bad costumes”.

     

    Source: www.independent.co.uk

  • Jordanian Pilot Burned Alive By IS Soldiers

    Jordanian Pilot Burned Alive By IS Soldiers

    A 2-minute video released Tuesday by the Islamic State shows the execution of captured Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh as he is burned alive in a cage.

    The brutal video is both one of its most violent and most slickly produced. Filled with wire-frame drawings and digitized cuts that dissolve its subjects in a flicker of pixels, the video uses Kasasbeh to attack the U.S.-led military campaign against the Islamic State.

    Prior to his execution in the video, Kasasbeh delivers a ringing condemnation of the West and his country, urging the mothers of Jordanian pilots from preventing their sons from going to war against the Islamic State.

    With a black eye clearly visible on the left side of his face, Kasasbeh explains in detail the military coalition arrayed against the Islamic State and the contributions made by each country in the fight, placing special emphasis on the contributions of Arab states. Kasasbeh also details the bases out of which missions against the Islamic State are flown.

    “The message that I direct to the Jordanian people: Know that your government is an agent of the Zionists,” Kasasbeh says in the video.

    Kasasbeh was captured in December when his jet was downed over Syria.

    The video was released by al-Furqan, the media arm of the Islamic State, and according to Jordanian state television, the execution was filmed on Jan. 3. The video’s release coincided with the Tuesday visit to Washington by Jordan King Abdullah, who abruptly canceled that trip and returned to his country.

    President Barack Obama called the video “one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization” and said it will serve to “redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of the global coalition to make sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated.”

    Bernadette Meehan, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said in a statement that the U.S. intelligence community is working to authenticate the video.

    In recent weeks, the Jordanian government has been engaged in highly public negotiations with the Islamic State, which proposed to swap Kenji Goto, a kidnapped journalist, for Sajida al-Rishawi, who is imprisoned in Jordan for her involvement in a 2005 terrorist attack in Amman.

    Last week, the Jordanian government agreed in principle to a swap but demanded their pilot’s release if Rishawi was to walk free. Those negotiations fell apart when the Islamic State refused to provide proof of life for Kasasbeh. It is now clear, according to Jordanian state television, that Kasasbeh had already been killed — even as negotiations were ongoing.

    The video presents his execution as retaliation for civilian casualties inflicted by the U.S.-led air campaign in Syria. It opens with a narrator describing Jordan’s role in that coalition and its willingness as a U.S. ally to support military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    After describing how the United States and its allies coordinate their aerial missions in Syria, the video cuts to a shot of a wire-frame drawing of an F-16, the plane Kasasbeh once flew, moving through a dark space filled with images of destruction, including a burning bus, a demolished building. The plane’s targeting reticule centers on a crying infant wearing an oxygen mask on what appears to be a hospital bed.

    The video then shows an image of an AGM-65 laser-guided bomb, a widely used American-made munition. It cuts to a series of images showing children suffering various degrees of burn wounds. With each image, the wounds get progressively more severe. At the bottom of the screen a temperature steadily increases toward “max.”

    The video then cuts to a scene of Kasasbeh walking through an area strewn with rubble. In a series of jump cuts, the video flashes to news footage of bodies being dug out of rubble. The implication is that Kasasbeh is being confronted with his crimes. He is shown on camera looking at a destroyed building with an expression of horror. All around him, masked fighters view him impassively.

    He is then placed in a cage and burned to death.

     

    Source: https://foreignpolicy.com

  • Lebanon Imposes Visa On Syrians Seeking To Enter The Country

    Lebanon Imposes Visa On Syrians Seeking To Enter The Country

    BEIRUT: For decades, Syrian and Lebanese citizens have enjoyed free movement across their shared border, but now they fear this is a thing of the past.

    For the first time ever, Syrians wishing to cross into Lebanon need a visa, regardless if they are fleeing a civil war.

    Wael Arbiley has been living in Lebanon for two years, but his family is still in Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus. Like many, Wael lives between the haven of Lebanon and the rubble of war-torn Syria. “My wife will give birth in a month. Her mother wants to visit us in Lebanon,” he said. “We are afraid that she will have difficulties at the border but we heard of a three-day visa that she could get.”

    This controversial measure, introduced earlier this year, is part of an effort by Beirut to restrain the influx of Syrian refugees into Lebanon. Syrians now need to obtain one of six types of visas: Tourist, transit, business, student, short stay or medical.

    The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says there has been a 50 per cent decrease in Syrians coming to register as refugees since the new measures were imposed.

    “It is still unclear how this problem will affect refugees who are already inside the country,” said Dana Sleiman, a UNHCR public information associate. “It’s mostly currently affecting refugees wishing to enter Lebanon. And we continue to discuss … with the government to see how these humanitarian exceptions will be implemented at the border.”

    Lebanon’s infrastructure has almost reached the point of collapse. The refugee influx has tested the limited resources of the country, as well as the patience of its citizens.

    But activists feel that is no reason to turn Syrians away in their time of need. “They should not impose a visa,” said Lebanese taxi driver Kamal Raqqa. “Refugees don’t have money. They are homeless. If they don’t have visas, they will go back to Syria and to their death.”

    It is a controversial policy that could endanger not only the lives of fleeing Syrians, but the special relationship between the two countries. But the Beirut says it has no choice.

    For months, the Lebanese government has warned the international community that it can no longer deal with the influx of Syrian refugees. This newly-imposed visa on Syrians seems to be the latest in a series of cries for help from Lebanon to contain the spill over of the Syrian crisis.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com