Reuters, 29/12 16:42 CET
By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Islamic
State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when
“owners” of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with
them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the
treatment of captured females.
The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to
go beyond the Islamic State’s previous known utterances on slavery, a
leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group
is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of
women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
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