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ISIS Kills A Mother For Breastfeeding In Public

By Basanta Lamichhane
Published on: 07:11 PST, Dec 28, 2015

The terror group Islamic State killed and badly mutilated an innocent mother who was breastfeeding her son under a tree. Affiliates of Islamic State who call themselves Al-Khansaa Brigade carried out the unthinkable deed in the streets of Raqqah, Syria.

The victim was wearing a hijab and gently tucked her infant under her burka in an attempt to conceal her act of genuine motherhood forbidden by the Islamic State, but to her horrible luck, she was seen by the members from the murderous group.

Aisha, who migrated from the town Raqqa to Turkey, told the Sunday Times, “[A]n IS woman took the baby, gave it to another woman, and then killed the mother.”

The jihadist forums and social media sites later later claimed that the victim had violated Islamic laws regarding public decency, and she was mutilated before she was murdered.

The Al-Khansa Brigade is a group of extremist Muslim women who act as police or religious enforcers for the Islamic State. They are hugely active in the Syrian city of Raqqah and the Iraqi state of Mosul.

The group of religiously resolute woman, named after female Arabic Poet from the earliest days of Islam, was founded 18 months ago after the Islamic State besieged the town of Raqqa. The group mostly consists of women from North Africa, Gulf Arabs, Iraqis, Chechens, and western Europe.

As reported by Mamamia, there are as many as 60 British women in the group, with 20-year-old Glaswegian Aqsa Mahmood understood to be a key member. They work for a modest £70 to £100 a month.

The all-woman group of self-proclaimed keepers of public decency are a far cry from woman rights, and it appears that the mothers are their key targets. Widow Um Hamid, 50, said she was forced to give up on her youngest daughter in exchange for food rations, an imposing offer she somehow managed to decline.

Women who go to public places without a man to look over them or without cover are arrested and severely beaten by the Al-Khansaa “police.” The latest victims of this asserted law were two women who received 20 lashes for wearing form-fitting abayas, five for wearing makeup underneath their abayas, and another five for “not being meek enough when detained”.

Earlier this July, a 17-year-old teen girl was beaten to death by the members of Al-Khansa just for looking for clothes in a shop.

The Mirror reports that, according to a reliable Egyptian media source, the teen was attacked by Russian-born extremists after she lifted her veil to look for clothes in show at a shop in Mosul, the Iraqi town captured by Islamic State.

The Arabic news outlet Ahram reports that the other reason she was attacked was because her clothing did not follow the IS-regulated dress code for women – black for married women, white for single, blue for divorced, and green for widows.

A former Syrian schoolteacher opened up about her experiences living in a terror-struck country with an ever-worsening situation of women rights.

She said, “We have no freedom. We cannot go out on the balcony or look through the window. They will arrest a woman if she wears perfume or raises her voice. A woman’s voice cannot be heard.”

She also shed lights on her terrifying story about her horrific capture by the all-woman unit.

“They said my eyes were visible through my veil. I was tortured. They lashed me. Now some of them punish women by biting. They give you the option between getting bitten or lashed.”

Although they appear as a stern group and inflexible to rules, their obedience to the rule they keep is questionable. Women in the territory administered by ISIL are not allowed to drive cars or carry weapons, but women in the Khansaa Brigade “can do both.”

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