During the Doha forum, a victim of the Islamic State tells the story of her families and warns of new tragedies

Imad Murad - Doha

A bitter experience of the Yezidi girl, Farida Abbas, who was a victim of kidnapping, captivity and rape at the hands of the Islamic State, just like the thousands of Yezidis who have faced the same fate for years.

Farida broke the barrier of fear and stigma and ruled her experience in front of a session: How does the Islamic State favor women? How do women win the war against the organization? Held on the sidelines of the 19th edition of the Doha Forum, which opened earlier on Saturday.

Unique and deliverance from death
Four months of captivity and torture, Farida Abbas spent between the Islamic State after which she managed to escape and escape death, and confirms that this experience, despite its bitterness, has increased its strength and strength, as it is currently active in the field of human rights and is working to introduce the world to the Yezidis crisis with the organization.

On August 3, 2014, Farida's life and her family were turned upside down. On this day, ISIS attacked its village, Koshu, in the Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. After the gunmen took over the village, they killed men and boys, and Farida was forced, along with thousands of women, to take buses that led them to the city of Raqqa, There they were sold to Kasbaya.

The girl who defeated the Islamic State
The 18-year-old resisted this black fate, which she suddenly faced, so her resistance and lack of acquiescence to the elements of the Islamic State had a great cost, and she was subjected to torture and assault on her several times, which led her to attempt suicide, but that attempt was unsuccessful, and then she moved uniquely from one area to another until she managed to escape From organizing to a camp in northern Iraq, then traveling to Germany.

In her camp in Germany, Farida wanted to break the silence, to warn of the crimes of the organization and to present her experience through the book "The Girl Who Defeated ISIS", that book which was translated into 17 different languages ​​and was able to convey the cry of the Yazidi girl to the world.

In a statement to Al-Jazeera Net, Farida Abbas calls on all Arab and Islamic countries to recognize the massacres that took place against the Yazidi minority in Iraq, as well as to provide the financial support required for the reconstruction of their still afflicted areas so that members of their community can return to their homes that they were forced to leave five years ago.

The Yazidi girl called for the need to join hands to eliminate extremists everywhere, adding that if the Islamic State organization had been defeated, there are several fears of new extremists who are committing new crimes and tragedies against other innocent people.

Immunizing women from joining ISIS
Participants in the session - which examined ways to immunize women from joining ISIS - agreed that the organization uses many methods to co-opt women, including ignorance and the search for strength or other reasons, such as deluding women that joining the organization will save children who are being killed in Syria and elsewhere.

The participants stressed that empowering women, employing and educating them gives them the strength necessary to defeat these ideas and not be drawn into them, stressing the need to make more efforts to combat extremism in the world.

During his intervention in front of the session, the head of the Yaqin Institute for Islamic Research considered Dr. Omar Suleiman that there is a legend that talks about the emergence of these gunmen from religious fanaticism, and this is not entirely true, in the case of Al-Qaeda we can see some interpretations that are used, but in the case of the state organization there is not any Justifications, they are interpreted according to their whims.

Reasons for ISIS to solicit women
And on the reasons for the organization’s co-opting of women, Solomon attributed this to the social exclusion of women and the exploitation of hate speech against Muslims in Europe in order to enter into women under the pretext that they are not from this society and are subject to hate, so why do they not join the organization and defend certain beliefs? As well as the impact of social media that the organization established to search for new elements.

For her part, Mia Bloom, a professor at the Middle East Center at Georgia State University, in a statement to Al-Jazeera Net, called for the necessity of a complete rehabilitation of all women victims of ISIS and their integration into society, as well as looking at other issues that victims face today, the most important of which is not knowing the names of parents Their children because the members of the organization used to call themselves the fake names "Abu Solan", and not to leave this tragedy to the children as well.

She added that the majority of the women who joined the state organization were not according to their will, but rather used different methods to solicit them to him, stressing that the demise of the organization now does not mean the disappearance of danger, but this period should be considered an opportunity to eliminate all the methods used by the state organization to attract women, In order to immunize them against any future risks.