2014

[INSIDEISIS]
Fighters promised 72 eternal virgins in heaven while christian women raped as husbands
beheaded ex-member.
Iraq, September 19, 2014: An ex-ISIS member, who lived and worked
with the militant Islamic terror group in Syria, gave a gory and seedy
glimpse inside the groups operation highlighting the brutal rape of
Christian women after their husbands are beheaded and a promise of 72
eternal virgins in heaven to fighters.
Speaking under the pseudonym Sherko Omer, the ex-ISIS member
told yourmiddleeast.com in a report Friday that members of the
terror group are promised eternal virgins and are allowed to have sex
with non-Muslim women, even if they are married. Christian women,
he explained, were sexually assaulted after their husbands were
beheaded during the time he was with the group.
We were promised women in heaven and on earth, too, based on IS
jihadist teaching of the verses of some Suras of the holy book of Quran
and hadiths by prophet Muhammad, all of which were explained
through the Tafsir (explanation) by Islamic scholars like Ibn Majah,
Bukhari and Ibn Kathir. We were told all non-Muslim women
prisoners will be our wives and God wills it, said Omer.
In Islamic holy war you cannot kill enemy women and children under any
circumstances, they can only be taken as prisoners. It is permissible to
have sexual intercourse with the captive women even if jihadists are
married, he said.
You can buy and sell these women, but for the children you have to raise
them as home workers or teach them to become jihadists, he continued
before noting that some Muslim women gave up their bodies in sacrificial
sex.
There are Muslim women who willingly offer their bodies for IS jihadists
and this is called sex for jihad. They, too, will be compensated in heaven,
according to IS. However, these women were mostly with the
commanders. I did not see average jihadist fighters with these Muslim
women, he said.
Omer, who said he had intended to join the Syrian opposition when he
left his Iraqi Kurdistan hometown last October, said he did not
participate in any of the assaults on the women because he was a
communication technician who was not involved with fighting.
They believe it is permissible to sleep with women prisoners even
against their will if they are infidels, non-Muslims and apostate
women. This happened to Christian women in Al-Raqqa after their
husbands were publically beheaded and I witnessed it. Now it is
happening to Kurdish Yezidi women of Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan, he
said. We were told that, as martyrs, we would have 72 eternal virgins
in heaven and we can save dozens of our close relatives from hell too.
He also explained that foreigners joining the group are seen as the most
expendable because they lack the general skills and know-how to be
effective fighters.
I saw many foreign recruits who were put in the suicide squads, not
because they were great and God wanted it as IS commanders praised
them in front of us, but basically because they were useless for IS, they
spoke no Arabic, they werent good fighters and had no professional
skills, said Omer.
They were brainwashed into thewomen in heaven and those they could
rape on earth before they eventually killed themselves. I am alive partly
thanks to my qualifications, he said.
You have to remember that IS has been portrayed as an organization
of gangs only, although this is evident what they do, but the political
leadership pay unbelievable attention to education and educated
recruits. But at the end of the day, good moral values are based on the
way education and intelligence are being used, he explained.
Omer recalled an incident when he tried to save a young Christian girl
from being raped and almost lost his life for it.
I was once told to go to a house to test some equipment to see if they
can be useful for the technical and communication bureau. Once
inside I realized it was a Christian home, he said.
I saw six jihadists demanding that a Christian woman and her daughter
become their wives. The daughter was about 12 or 13 years old. I told the
jihadists forcing women is forbidden in Islam and children cant be
touched under any circumstances. They loaded their guns in my face and
told me to leave, he explained.
I immediately left to the local court that was based in a small house, but
the judge was worse, he said I was wrong because 13-year-old girl is not
considered a child, essentially because Prophet Muhammad married his
wife, Aisha, when she was only 9 years old. He accused me of having poor
faith in the practices of Prophet Muhammad for which I could have been
detained and possibly punished with tough sentences, but my field
commander soon arrived and saved me, he said.
Omer explained that what he witnessed in Al-Raqqa made him realize he
had to leave the group.
I wanted to leave first week into my post in Al-Raqqa but I was a
coward, scared of getting beheaded and did not know my way out.
Unlike at the camp, IS jihadists acted as God in Al-Raqqa. They were
rude, arrested and killed anybody for no real reason, he said.
He said he found the courage to attempt an escape after seeing a
Kurdish fighter beheaded.
I decided to risk my life to escape after I witnessed a wounded
captured Kurdish YPG fighter publically beheaded. He was about my
age, but unlike me he was extremely brave, said Omer.
He spat on every jihadist around him. He shouted slogans about Kurdish
freedom and Abdullah Ocalan. I had never seen anyone so brave in my
life. His fingers were cut yet he shouted insults against the jihadists. He
was finally beheaded from behind to suffer and salt was put on his half-
cult neck to die in agony, but he did not give up until he painfully died, he
said.
I felt very sick afterward and did not sleep for a week thinking I am either
going to run away or kill myself; but thank God the chance came soon
afterward in the city of Serekaniye, he said.
In February, Omer saidhe was sent to fix some radios in Serekaniye when
Kurdish fighters raided the ISIS camp.
I fixed all the faulty equipment after I arrived in Serekaniye, but
then they asked me to intercept and interpret YPG radio
communications. YPG members spoke Kurmanji Kurdish and I spoke
Sorani Kurdish, but I couldve tried harder to accurately intercept
and interpret YPG radios and track their next moves, but when I
heard female fighters speaking in Kurdish over the radio I just
couldnt do it, he said
Nearly a week passed at the base and it was the YPG that attacked our
campsite. I was lucky because I was at the last outpost faraway when YPG
first attacked and I immediately surrendered after YPG sniper killed the
two jihadists beside me, he said.
I shouted in Kurdish, they told me to go closer and get naked and after it
was clear that I had no suicide belt, they accepted my surrender. It is true
that I have physically escaped now, thanks to God and thanks to the YPG,
but Al-Raqqa is mentally haunting me now because what I have witnessed
is just pure horror, he ended.
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