ISIS heinous crimes require unity in confronting them

 The takfiri groups pose threats to all the countries and people of the region and all sides should unite in facing and terminating them. There is a need to exert more efforts to confront ISIS and Jabhet al-Nusra and other terrorist and extremist organizations in a manner based on international law and without employing double standards and covert agendas.

The barbaric acts committed by takfiri groups in Syria and Iraq and elsewhere are an insult to Islam, and these groups pose a threat to Islam itself as a religion and a mission on an international scale. Amnesty International said the sexual abuses committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) against abducted women are driving these women to end their lives.

Crucifixion also figured prominently among the abhorrent crimes committed by ISIS members, reports of which were coming out recently, including in the city of Deir Ezzour.

A statement by Amnesty said Yazidi women and girls forced into sexual slavery by ISIS have committed suicide or tried to.

The physical and psychological impact of the sexual violence inflicted upon these women is catastrophic. Many of them have been tortured and treated as animals. Even those who have managed to escape remain deeply traumatized.

In an earlier report published last September, Amnesty said ISIS has launched a systematic ethnic cleansing campaign in northern Iraq where mass executions have been carried out.

The report affirmed that thousands of Yazidi women and children were abducted by ISIS, with the girls being taken as sex slaves, in the course of what the UN described as “genocide” that took place when the terrorist organization overran Mount Sinjar in Iraq.

Another gruesome crime is that the ISIS Takfiri group resorts to trafficking human organs as a means of funding its terrorist activities, according to a report.  The US-based media website Al-Monitor reported the development quoting Siruwan al-Mosuli, an otolaryngologist who said that lately he noticed unusual movement within medical facilities in Mosul. Arab and foreign surgeons were hired, but prohibited from mixing with local doctors. Information then leaked about organ selling. Surgeries take place within a hospital and organs are quickly transported through networks specialized in trafficking human organs.

Syria’s cultural heritage has also been subject to atrocious crimes by ISIS members. Reports show that thousands of Syrian artifacts have so far been smuggled out by ISIS and gangs to neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Turkey and the occupied Palestinian territories. The Syrian government has taken many steps to protect archeological sites by imposing strict security measures. The authorities are in communication with the international police to track the smugglers and arrest them and restore stolen artifacts. Moreover, the foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists have launched a systematic program of damaging and destroying the country’s historic sites in an attempt to erase Syria’s rich cultural heritage. The United Nations has announced that Takfiri terrorists have already destroyed or damaged over 300 Syrian historical sites.

Terrorists seizing the archeological sites as their strongholds have caused irrevocable damage to the Syrian heritage and cultural legacy.

All those who are sharing in shedding the Syrian blood, like Wahhabis, Muslim Brotherhoods, al-Qaeda, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and those who sponsor them, mainly Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other killers in Paris, London and Washington, are responsible for the heinous crimes perpetrated against Syrians.

All Saudi money and the money of their friends which support terrorism will not subjugate Syria as Syrian people will never surrender and reject to yield to an invader and a takfiri criminal.

The heroic bravery and sacrifices of the Syrian Arab Army which rejects to be a slave to poisonous money and to kneel to hegemony of the enemies will achieve victory against Takfiri terrorism and restore security and stability to the whole country.

K.Q.