Female Human Rights Lawyer Tortured and Killed by ISIS

[ufo_investigations]

BAGHDAD: Militants with ISIS publicly killed a rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after finding her guilty of apostasy in a self-styled Islamic court, the United Nations said Thursday.

Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was seized from her home on Sept. 17 after allegedly posting messages on Facebook that were critical of the militants' destruction of religious sites in Mosul. Her Facebook page appears to have been removed since her death.

According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq, Nuaimi was tried in a so-called "Shariah court" for apostasy, after which she was tortured for five days before the militants sentenced her to public execution.

"By torturing and executing a female human rights' lawyer and activist, defending in particular the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul, ISIL continues to attest to its infamous nature, combining hatred, nihilism and savagery, as well as its total disregard of human decency," Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. envoy to Iraq, said in a statement, referring to the group by an alternate acronym.

The militant group captured Iraq's second largest city Mosul during its rapid advance across the country's north and west in June, as Iraqi security forces melted away. The extremists now rule a vast, self-declared caliphate straddling the Syria-Iraq border in which they have imposed a harsh version of Islamic law and beheaded and massacred their opponents.

In the once-diverse city of Mosul the group has forced religious minorities to convert to Islam, pay special taxes or die, causing tens of thousands to flee. The militants have enforced a strict dress code on women, going so far as to veil the faces of female mannequins in store fronts.

In August, the group destroyed a number of historic landmarks in the town, including several mosques and shrines, claiming they promote apostasy.

The Gulf Center for Human Rights said Wednesday that Nuaimi had worked on detainee rights and poverty. The Bahrain-based rights organization said her death "is solely motivated by her peaceful and legitimate human rights work, in particular defending the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul."

The militants' rapid advance eventually prompted U.S. airstrikes last month to aid Kurdish forces and protect religious minorities in Iraq. This week a newly formed U.S.-led coalition expanded the aerial campaign into Syria, where ISIS is battling President Bashar Assad's forces as well as Western-backed rebels.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Sep-25/271947-iraqi-female-activist-killed-by-isis...

[lightningdance]

You forgot "The Satanis Verses" Salmon Rushdie.

[lightningdance]

---

@lightningdance wrote:

You forgot "The Satanis Verses" Salmon Rushdie.

---

"Satanic Verses" maybe its time we all revisited that book.

[azureline**]

---

@gkam2 wrote:

---

@azureline** wrote:

---

@gkam2 wrote:

---

@azureline** wrote:

Did I say they did?

My post was in response to interpretations by questionable sites.

---

Did I say you said they did?

---

it certainly appears that way, you replied to and quoted my post.

---

I commented on your post, I did not reply to it, don't flatter yourself.

---

commented/replied, no difference really, that is what it looked like to me. The bit up top that says reply to and then quoting my post, indicates that you did.

I don't seek or need flattery.

@azureline** wrote:

Since the first books were written, people have put their own interpretation on the written word.

None of them are factual, we rely on them to interpret what they mean, don't we? as neither the Qoran or the Bible are written in English.

---

I don't think that the people who are using the Qoran to justify their actions are reading it in English, but rather in the language in which it is written.

[lightningdance]

---

@gkam2 wrote:

---

@azureline** wrote:

Since the first books were written, people have put their own interpretation on the written word.

None of them are factual, we rely on them to interpret what they mean, don't we? as neither the Qoran or the Bible are written in English.

---

I don't think that the people who are using the Qoran to justify their actions are reading it in English, but rather in the language in which it is written.

---

I agree but then we have such barstardisation of the book  by vested interests, imams, mullas, clerics, shieks and any other self proclaimed prophet ,  who knows what interpretation they are being brainwashed with.

There are some pretty awful verses in ii.

If they rewrote it ifor the modern era like the bible was and all the really violent stuff is left in the old testament and not relevant for the 21st century, that would bring this religion up into the modern era and out of the dark ages but many muslims in poor countries have no education and they are easily gulled into whatever the reader  wants them to hear.

[karliandjacko]

---

@lightningdance wrote:

You forgot "The Satanis Verses" Salmon Rushdie.

---

Assuming you mean Satanic verses - 8.14

[lightningdance]

---

@karliandjacko wrote:

---

@lightningdance wrote:

You forgot "The Satanis Verses" Salmon Rushdie.

---

Assuming you mean Satanic verses - 8.14

---

I corrected that, anything else?

[karliandjacko]

---

@lightningdance wrote:

---

@karliandjacko wrote:

---

@lightningdance wrote:

You forgot "The Satanis Verses" Salmon Rushdie.

---

Assuming you mean Satanic verses - 8.14

---

I corrected that, anything else?

---

It was in the list is the point I made, not the spelling.