ISIS Issued Detailed Book On Female Slaves Treatment

Far from trying to conceal the practice, Islamic State has boasted about it and established a department of 'war spoils' to manage slavery.

Reuters reported on the existence of the department on Monday.

ISIS has issued an extremely detailed ruling on when the 'owners' of female slaves can have sex with them in a sickening attempt to justify the rape and torture of its captives.

The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond ISIS's previous known utterances on the subject, a leading Islamic State scholar said.

It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to sanction the sexual slavery of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.

The fatwa was among a huge trove of documents captured by U.S. Special Operations Forces during a raid targeting a top ISIS official in Syria in May.

Many have been given to fighters as a reward or sold as sex slaves.

In an April report, Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 female escapees who recounted how Islamic State fighters separated young women and girls from men and boys and older women.

They were moved 'in an organized and methodical fashion to various places in Iraq and Syria.'

They were then sold or given as gifts and repeatedly raped or subjected to sexual violence.

Fatwa No. 64, dated January 29, 2015, and issued by the terror group's Committee of Research and Fatwas, appears to codify sexual relations between ISIS fighters and their female captives for the first time, going further than a pamphlet issued by the group in 2014 on how to treat slaves.

The fatwa starts with a question: 'Some of the brothers have committed violations in the matter of the treatment of the female slaves.

'These violations are not permitted by Sharia law because these rules have not been dealt with in ages. Are there any warnings pertaining to this matter?'

It then lists 15 injunctions, which in some instances go into explicit detail.

For example, one says: 'If the owner of a female captive, who has a daughter suitable for intercourse, has sexual relations with the latter, he is not permitted to have intercourse with her mother and she is permanently off limits to him. 

'Should he have intercourse with her mother then he is not permitted to have intercourse with her daughter and she is to be off limits to him.'

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