Fifteen women who were not wearing a niqab have been disfigured with acid at the hands of the ISIS Female Police.
The women were abused in the Mosul neighborhood of Salamiya according to Kurdish officials.
They have implemented this punishment so that other women in the city will never consider removing or not wearing the niqab,” a Kurdistan Democratic Party official in Mosul, Saed Mamuzini said.
ISIS issued a warning in July to all women in Mosul that if they were caught without a full face veil they would be punished.
“This is not a restriction on freedom but to prevent her from falling into humiliation and vulgarity or to be a theater for the eyes of those who are looking,” The Islamic State said in its warning statement. “Anyone who is not committed to this duty and is motivated by glamour will be subject to the accountability and severe punishment to protect society from harm and to maintain the necessities or religion and protect it from debauchery.”
The Female Police unit has been caught using medieval torture devices to abuse and mutilate women who violate their regulations.
Two Kenyan teenage girls are in hiding after being beaten and starved by their uncle for accepting Christ.
Namwase Aisha, 16 and her sister Nabagabana Fatuma, 14, are being given trauma counseling and medical care after being rescued from their Muslim uncle. The uncle had taken custody of the girls five years ago after the death of their father and tried to force them to become Muslims.
“My uncle became so furious because we had embraced Jesus,” Aisha told a Morning Star News source. “He locked us inside the house and began beating us with a wooden stick, and then we were left for three days without food. At the third day, we felt as if we were going to die, and we began crying for help.”
The girls say that while being taught about Islamic jinn, or evil supernatural creatures, they were troubled and could not sleep. They said they were being harassed by these evil spirits and sought out the Christians because they wanted to be set free.
“Before leaving he church, we told the pastor of our problems, who first prayed for us to be followers of Jesus and later prayed that the evil spirits will not torment us again,” Aisha said. “After the prayers, we felt as if a big burden had been rolled away.”
The girls, fearful they will be killed for their profession of Christ, will be kept in hiding until they can flee to a western nation.
German police are investigating an attack on an Israeli man in Berlin on New Year’s Eve by Germans who were singing anti-Semitic songs.
Witnesses say a group of young men were shouting anti-Semitic slogans and singing songs on a subway train. Shahak Shapira, 26, is an Israeli citizen who lives in Berlin and asked the group to stop singing the hate songs.
When the men refused to stop spewing their hate, Shapira recorded their actions on his cell phone.
He exited the train car at the next stop only to be followed by the men who shouted at him in both German and Arabic. They demanded that Shapira delete the video from his phone. When Shapira refused, the gang spat on him, beat him and then kicked him in the head when he fell to the ground.
Police say they are still looking for the attackers.
A Muslim man attempted to murder a French police officer Friday while yelling “Allahu Akbar.”
The London Daily Telegraph said the man has been arrested for theft after he snatched a woman’s purse. He asked his jailers for a glass of water and when the officer opened the prisoner’s cell, the man lunged at the officer and tried to strangle him.
“The doctor who treated him (the officer) said that just a few seconds more and it would have been too late,” Michael Philippart of the SGP FO police union told the publication L’Est Républicain.
The attack is not the only attack on French police by Muslims in the last few weeks.
In Joue-les-Tours, Bertrand Nzohabonayo walked into a police station with a knife and shouted “Allahu Akbar” while he slashed at police.
“He was banging on the fittings [of the door], so the officers opened [the door] to see what he was doing, and he immediately threw himself at my colleagues, stabbing one in the hand, and attacking the second on the neck and face,” Christophe Crepin told France 2 TV.
The attacker said he was doing it for the “children of Palestine.”
In what is being called a new initiative to fight crime, all taxis in the Filipino city of Tagbilaran will be carrying Bible verses.
The law had been on the books for over 20 years but now the city is enforcing the law in an attempt to curb a wave of violence that was impacting commuters.
“This is the only city in the Philippines that has such an ordinance,” Samuel Belderol, who issues taxi licenses at city hall, told reporters. “We want the world to know that we are a God-fearing city and that these Bible verses help us draw closer to God. We only issue 3,000 licenses every year and each one must have a unique verse on it, no duplicate verses allowed.”
If a taxi driver fails or refuses to post the verse, they could lose their license.
City Council member Lucile Lagunay says the action has already shown a positive impact on the crime rate.
“With a Biblical message at the back of the units, commuters get to see the message every day and it helps in way to preserve the peace in our city,” she stated. “Everyday commuters get to see the biblical message on the tricycles and who want to think of crime when they see biblical passages everywhere.”
Two teenage girls who attempted to kill a third teen girl as a tribute to the fictional character “Slenderman” have been found competent to stand trial.
A spokeswoman for the Waukesha County Circuit Court told CNN that Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier will face trial on charges of attempted murder. The two girls stabbed a classmate 19 times in May and left her body in the woods as a “sacrifice” to the “Slenderman.”
All three were 12 years old at the time of the attack. The victim was able to crawl out of the woods where a cyclist noticed her laying along the road. She spent weeks in the hospital in critical condition.
One of the accused girls told police that Slenderman is the leader of the “Creepypasta” website and the only way for someone to “reach his realm” is to kill someone.
The two girls are being tried as adults and their first preliminary hearing is set for February 18.
In the wake of a Christian couple being burned inside a brick kiln due to false accusations of blasphemy, three more cases of Christians being accused of blasphemy has emerged from Pakistan.
A Muslim north of Lahore claims he found burned pages of the Quran along with a page that listed a bunch of Christians. He claimed that the Christians on the list must have burned the Quran or else they would have not been on the attached list.
“I don’t know who has done this heinous act, but I am sure that the perpetrator is very much against the Christian community,” Pastor Arif Masih, who is on the list, told World Watch Monitor.
In another incident, a 70-year-old Christian man was hired to whitewash a mosque including a signboard that contained writing from the Quran. The Christian man was beaten by a mob of Muslims as he performed his work.
The Christian man, Bashir Masih, was accused of blasphemy by the Muslim mob that attacked him.
Local officials say that while the charges have been filed, they have confirmed he was hired to do the work and that the issue is really between two separate Muslim groups.
The Minority Rights Group International report says these incidents are becoming common.
“Since 2001, violence and discrimination against Christians has increased. Seen as connected to the ‘West’ due to their faith, Christians have at times been scapegoated for the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, as well as the immense human suffering seen as a consequence of interventions in other countries with large Muslim populations”.
A group of Australians are calling for the Bible to be banned at retail outlets that are refusing to carry a sexually explicit, violent video game.
The anti-Bible group is claiming that the Bible is just as bad as the video game and therefore should be banned at any location that does not carry the game. They say that Christians are just trying to earn “God points” by obeying scripture that calls for violence against women.
Kmart and Target stores in the country announced they will not be carrying a new version of the video game Grand Theft Auto Five, which was released last month for two new game systems. The ban came after a petition of 50,000 asked for the game to not be carried because it is a “sickening game that encourages players to commit sexual violence and kill women.”
“Games like this are grooming yet another generation of boys to tolerate violence against women. It is fueling the epidemic of violence experienced by so many girls and women in Australia—and globally,” reads the petition.
“We have firsthand experience of this kind of sexual violence. It haunts us, and we’ve been trying to rebuild our lives ever since,” the petition continues. “Just knowing that women are being portrayed as deserving to be sexually used by men and potentially murdered for sport and pleasure—to see this violence that we lived through turned into a form of entertainments is sickening and causes us great pain and harm.”
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to solid steps to calm the tensions over Jerusalem’s holiest site.
Violence has been building over the last few weeks over the Temple Mount. Palestinians have been attacking Israeli police and fears had been building concerning a major uprising by Palestinians.
“Today, we are working to smother the sparks of immediate tension so that they don’t become a fire that is absolutely out of control,” Kerry added, flanked by Jordanian Foreign Minister Naser Judeh. The area, which contains the Dome of the Rock, is under Jordanian control due to treaty.
Members of the Israeli government have been raising discussions that Jews should be again able to pray on the Temple Mount. Judah told reporters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed in the talks to maintain the status quo as a way to help ease tensions.
The agreement announced by Kerry also lifted all age restrictions on Muslims praying at the Dome.
A video has been posted online showing Muslim men near Atlanta beating themselves bloody to commemorate the death of Mohammad’s grandson.
The acts come on the Day of Ashura, marking the death of the son of Mohammad’s daughter during a battle in 680 A.D.
The video and photos of the Muslims outside Atlanta shocked viewers with images of infants having their heads cut with knives and men beating themselves until they bleed. They would whip themselves with chains.
“We’ve been doing this since we were kids. I started when I was three,” Mahmoud Jaber, 43, told the Associated Press in 2007. “It doesn’t hurt because the cry of pain goes away with the faith.”
Critics have been demanding to know why the government is not stepping in to protect children who are being cut and beaten.
“If this were happening in the home of an Atlanta resident, the department of child services would take the child from that home as quick as they could. If a family in Atlanta were encouraging their child to beat themselves or cut themselves… the state would not allow it!” writer Onan Coca said. “Yet, because Islam has strangely become some kind of protected cult in our society, we allow these children to be abused right in front of us— in view of the public and even our legal authorities.”
