Ian

Rowan Atkinson is right.

Traditional Islamic child marriage. 😡 Just look at her tears. 😢😥

In 2014, when Nadia Murad was 19, ISIS came to the village where she and her family lived. They demanded that the villagers, who were Yazidi, convert to Islam. When their demands were refused, the killing began. Men and boys who were older than 14 were shot or burned alive; younger boys were taken to be trained as terrorists. 6 of Nadia’s brothers and stepbrothers were murdered for refusing to convert. Her mother, like the rest of the older women, was killed because she was too old to be desirable as a sex slave. 600 people were murdered, while Nadia and the other young women were taken into captivity. As one of the 6700 Yazidi girls captured by ISIS in 2014 alone, Nadia was kept as a sex slave in the city of Mosul, where she was beaten and raped and burned with cigarettes by her ISIS captor for months before she was able to escape. After she regained her freedom, Nadia campaigned tirelessly for the release and protection of Yazidi women and girls. In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, alongside Dr. Denis Mukwege, a renowned humanitarian. Together they founded the Global Survivors Fund, which works to gain survivors access to reparations and compensation so they can rebuild their shattered lives. In November of 2021, the Toronto District School Board, which is the largest district in Canada, banned its students from attending a meeting of a girls’ book club that focuses on female authors because Nadia was scheduled to discuss the book she wrote about her ordeal. Superintendent Helen Fisher ruled that students in her school district could not attend because the details of the book would “offend” Muslim students, and “promote Islamophobia.” I find it interesting that neither Ms. Fisher, the school board, nor local Muslims were able to distinguish between ISIS and the Muslim community as a whole.