ICC Note: a 19-year-old survivor of sex slavery under ISIS has revealed how her captors would pray and perform rituals before assaulting her and other women. In her new book, titled The Girl Who Beat ISIS, the author gives her first hand experience as a sex slave to jihadis in a city occupied and run by ISIS. The author is of the Yazidi religion, who along with Christians, are the special targets of the Islamic State.

08/04/2016 Iraq (Christian Post): A 19-year-old girl who was captured, raped and tortured multiple times by ISIS jihadists in Iraq reveals her harrowing account in a new book that describes the religious rituals the men practiced before carrying out the brutal attacks on women and children.

The book, titled The Girl Who Beat ISIS, shares the story of a Yazidi teenage girl in Iraq who goes by the pseudonym, Farida Khalaf, to protect her identity.

The Guardian noted in its review of the book that it provides a first-hand account of the torture women and girls are being forced to endure in cities held by IS (also known as ISIL, ISIS, Daesh). A number of minorities, including Christians, have been made to suffer greatly at the hands of IS, with Yazidis being heavily targeted because IS regards them as devil worshipers.

Khalaf explains in the book that women are treated like property, and are paraded in slave markets in Raqqa, where buyers seek to purchase virgins.

In one of the passages, the Yazidi girl describes how one IS fighter, Amjed from Azerbaijan, prayed to their god every time he was about to assault her.

“Each time he would carry out his religious ritual beforehand,” Khalaf wrote.

Girls who try to escape such slave markets are often beaten within an inch of their lives.

Still, Khalaf managed to escape IS captivity, and was reunited with her mother and younger brothers at a refugee camp.

Her father is still missing and presumed dead, and at the camp she faced new challenges since her Yazidi culture regards rape victims as “defiled” and unable to marry.

Khalaf is now studying in Germany, looking to finish her education and become a math teacher, but she knows many others like her are waiting to be rescued from the terror that IS in inflicting.

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