Syrian women in refugee camps victims of immoral fatwas

From the very beginning of the crisis in Syria, the armed terrorist groups have been working to eliminate the great achievements realized by Syrian women over the past four decades. Over the past few decades, Syrian women have achieved great achievements represented by their involvement in all domains of social, economic and political life.

However, the terrorist organizations operating in Syria have sought with full support of terrorism-sponsoring governments to eliminate the existence of ‘the Syrian woman’ as a human being relying on shameful and immoral fatwas where hundreds of girls and women have been victims amidst suspicious international silence.

Syria has been suffering for three years and a half from terrorism.  The world will not forget that sixteen-year old Syrian girl from Raqqa who was slaughtered only for having an account on Facebook. The world will not also forget that girl who committed suicide to escape a compulsive marriage to a terrorist Jihadist with a Tunisian citizenship. We will never forget the Syrian girls who have been kidnapped from their homes in front of their own parents’ eyes and then taken as slaves ‘Sabias’ (Women whose rapists are allowed based on Sharia- to sexually abuse them because they do not belong to the Jihadists’ religion) or Malikat al-Yamin (women taken as wives without legal or religious contracts) to terrorists calling themselves Jihadists where a single girl is raped for several times a day.

Members of the Wahhabi terrorist organizations have committed gang rapes against thousands of Syrian women, and these organizations sought with full support of the Gulf petro-dollar states, some regional and international governments to eliminate the existence of the Syrian woman as a human being, changing her into a tool for entertaining terrorists and imposing their ill dark ideology on them. This obscurantist ideology has imposed restrictions on women inside their families, in the way they dress, in education and within their society through Sharia court verdicts that contradict with the level of Constitution-ensured dignity and freedom the Syrian women were enjoying throughout the past decades.

The terrorist groups committed crimes inside the refugee camps in the neighboring countries of Turkey and Jordan where they have been suffering from the most atrocious forms of sexual abuse and psychological suppression as well as human trafficking.

The Syrian women were the first spectrum of the society who have paid the price of the terrorist attack against Syria, particularly due to the close-minded ideas of the takfiri ideology which is backed by the regimes of the Gulf and Turkey and the Wahhabi fatwas which humiliate women and deprive them of their rights, achievements and their active role in the Syrian society.

The fatwa of the so-called Jihad al-Nikah or Jihad marriage which Syria has warned the UN about its danger for several times and called upon the UN bodies to take prompt and serious measures to stop this shameful phenomenon and to account those who issue and promote this fatwa. Syria’s calls for curbing this phenomenon has not been heeded despite of the fact that Western and Arab officials admitted the existence of this phenomenon in their own societies.

The suspicious international silence towards the suffering of the Syrian and Iraqi women has allowed this shameful fatwa to spread and continue as the number of its victims has reached hundreds as the women are begging for freeing them from this torture.

A report made by the British The Guardian Newspaper in which it depended on statements of the interior ministers of some of European countries in which they say that their countries export girls to Syria such as France, England, Germany, Austria, Sweden and the US, some of those girls are less than 13 years old such as the French girl Noura.

The UN and other concerned bodies should exert more efforts and pay the utmost importance to stop this immoral fatwa and to find the suitable mechanism to account the governments of the countries which have a legal authority on those who issue this fatwa or spread it. More efforts are also needed to stop the financial and military support flowing to the armed terrorist groups by the petro-dollar states and Turkey.

K.Q.