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U.S. Kurds To Stage Mock Sex Slave Auction and Begin Hunger Strike At White House

Submitted by Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor

kurdish-national-congress-grieving-womanMembers of the Kurd Community residing in the United States will host a demonstration to draw attention to the plight of Yezidi and Christian women in Iraq and Syria suffering and persecuted at the hands of ISIS.

Reportedly beginning at 10:00am on Monday, October 27, members of the Kurdish Diaspora will begin a five-day hunger strike at Lafayette Park across from the White House, culminating with a march to the White House and a demonstration on Friday, October 31 from 12:00-3:00pm. The procession will include a mock Islamic State (IS) slave market, exhibiting the humanitarian disaster being faced by thousands of Yezidi and Christian women and girls currently being held captive by IS in Iraq and Syria.

In a statement event organizer Goran Slemani declared: “I am confident that as more people become aware of this crisis, they will encourage world powers to take action against IS and to save thousands of women and children from being raped and sold into slavery. We are going on hunger strike because the Christians and the Yezidis of the region need our voices!”

The event is sponsored by Kurdish Human Rights Watch and endorsed by the Kurdish National Congress. A statement of support is to be released. The effort shows a joint effort by these entities and other individuals and interdenominational organizations of faith the hope and commitment that their voices are heard. As such this will encourage and foster the United States and other word governments to act immediately and actively to protect these ethnic groups from the ISIS genocide before it is too late.

According to Kurdish Human Rights Watch and other sources, ISIS has systematically abducted thousands of Yezidi and Christian women and girls and is holding them in makeshift detention facilities in Iraq and Syria. Most of them have been forced into marriage or sold into sexual slavery, in addition to daily rape and trauma. All have been subjected to forced religious conversion.

As reported by eKurd News:

The Kurdish National Congress of North America (KNC) is a non-profit, member-driven organization representing Kurds from all parts of Kurdistan living in the United States and Canada. Its objective is to unite Kurds living in North America to work for common goals, to promote the idea of a United Free Kurdistan, and to strengthen the voice of all Kurds living in the USA and Canada.

The mission of Kurdish Human Rights Watch, Inc. (KHRW) is to enable Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), refugees, [asylum seekers] and homeless individuals to achieve self-sufficiency and economic independence through direct assistance and capacity building.

Awareness and solidarity among our respective societies are important in that we must consider each other as equal, continuing to work together toward a world in which all are valued under the protection of basic human rights.

By Darren Smith

Sources:

EKurd News
Photo Credit: EKurd.net

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33 thoughts on “U.S. Kurds To Stage Mock Sex Slave Auction and Begin Hunger Strike At White House”

  1. happypappies,
    Thank you and your husband for your service!

    I was in the Persian Gulf in 1990. My ship refueled in Kuwait on Aug. 1st and I was on watch in Combat in the early morning hours of Aug 2nd when Iraq attacked Kuwait. Interestingly, we could barely set GQ in 8 minutes during announced drills in the middle of day and when this attack happened in the wee hours of the morning…3.5 minutes! My point is this volunteer military wants peace but prepares for war. We want to project power so that we keep the homeland free from conflict.

    Our problem is not the military; they are merely the weapon. The problem is with politicians that wield that weapon.

    1. Olly- Thank you for your service also 🙂

      We want to project power so that we keep the homeland free from conflict.
      I understand that, but their homeland is not likely to ever be free from conflict because the Politicians always have an agenda.

      Our problem is not the military; they are merely the weapon. The problem is with politicians that wield that weapon. See the above comment by Rumsfeld. See link also if interested. Max 1 made an astute comment a week or so ago about how these conflicts are seemingly solved and then they break down in arbitration. 🙁

      1. happypappies – we won the Vietnam War, we lost the Vietnam Peace. Wilson is probably responsible for WWII because of his phoning it in at Versailles, both FDR and Truman got out horse traded by Churchill and Stalin.

  3. i am definitely in support of their cause and am willing to participate in the live mock auction. Please let me know where and when i should be there.
    karensue

  4. It is a good place for them to demonstrate. What we in America need to accept is that territories like Syria and Iran are not nation states. Pirate Territories: fly over and flush.

  5. rafflaw: “do we want another full scale ground war to go after ISIL/ISIS?”

    No, but it’s not about “want to”. There’s a reason the West Point cadet prayer asks God for the strength to “Make us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong”.

    President Kennedy, from Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961:

    Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans–born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage–and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

    President Kennedy, from Remarks at West Point to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy, June 6, 1962:

    Korea has not been the only battleground since the end of the Second World War. Men have fought and died in Malaya, in Greece, in the Philippines, in Algeria and Cuba and Cyprus, and almost continuously on the Indo-Chinese Peninsula. No nuclear weapons have been fired. No massive nuclear retaliation has been considered appropriate. This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin–war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It is a form of warfare uniquely adapted to what has been strangely called “wars of liberation,” to undermine the efforts of new and poor countries to maintain the freedom that they have finally achieved. It preys on economic unrest and ethnic conflicts. It requires in those situations where we must counter it, and these are the kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved, a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training.

    President Kennedy, from Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs, May 25, 1961:

    These are extraordinary times. And we face an extraordinary challenge. Our strength as well as our convictions have imposed upon this nation the role of leader in freedom’s cause. No role in history could be more difficult or more important. We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves–that is our only commitment to others. No friend, no neutral and no adversary should think otherwise. We are not against any man–or any nation–or any system–except as it is hostile to freedom. Nor am I here to present a new military doctrine, bearing any one name or aimed at any one area. I am here to promote the freedom doctrine.

  7. There have been attempts at genocide of the Kurds in the Middle East. ISIS is just the latest scourge the Kurds are facing. There is a reason why displaced Kurds are feeling a great pull to return and fight.

    Those poor women and girls. There are no words to express my sympathy and heartbreak at their suffering.

    There were people who objected to our involvement to end the Jewish Holocaust, too, but we were on the right side of history.

  8. LEONATO

    You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
    kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
    they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit
    between them.

    BEATRICE

    Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last
    conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and
    now is the whole man governed with one: so that if
    he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
    bear it for a difference between himself and his
    horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,
    to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his
    companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.

    (Much Ado About Nothng, Shakespeare).

  9. Neighbordave-
    Yes, it would be a good thing if the US fought wars to protect victims of brutality. Unfortunately victims are protected only if they are a major contributor to political campaigns.

  10. The Kurds don’t want US Troops. They want US WEAPONS! But, Turkey is pimp slapping Obama like every country does. They don’t want the Kurds armed.

  11. Happypappies,
    I wouldn’t consider that disrespectful at all. 🙂

    We came out of the Dark Ages and put an end to the rational for Holy War. Would the cause be just if we instead committed our troops to defend the defenseless from the atrocities against human rights; especially if that cause prevented those same atrocities from hitting our homeland?

    1. Happypappies,
      I wouldn’t consider that disrespectful at all. 🙂

      We came out of the Dark Ages and put an end to the rational for Holy War. Would the cause be just if we instead committed our troops to defend the defenseless from the atrocities against human rights; especially if that cause prevented those same atrocities from hitting our homeland?

      Unfortunately, every time we commit our troops, our resources, meaning agriculture, infrastructure, to fight fire against the fire of this evil, what happens? What is the end result? I am at a disadvantage when I am speaking to you because I don’t know your backround or anything about you, but my husband is 66 years old and is in the Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau Mo. He is a better person and Christian than I will ever be meaning he cares so much for those men, and he is totally wheel chair bound.

      Most of those men do not think it is advisable to send troops on the ground into a situation like that. We do have our Drones, we have our air strikes. We have people that can sign up as Legionnaires as far as I know.

      Spinnelli has suggested a Women’s group to help over there. But I still feel like that until we straighten up our act here and start setting the example of the Christian Nation we profess to be, none of these nations have anything to look up to. I happen to agree with some of the things that the Muslims say about us meaning that we are completely licentious in our behavior. Now, I am not saying that is what you and I are but we need, as a nation, to find a way to send a different message to these countries than they get from us now because our attentions are not welcome after any initial rescue.

      That has been proven time and time again.

      1. happypappies – you do remember what the rationale was for the Crusades?

  14. Rafflaw,
    “while I am concerned with the plight of Kurds, do we want another full scale ground war to go after ISIL/ISIS?”

    Our national security is what WE want; what we have to do to maintain it depends largely on what OTHERS want. Unfortunately, a full-scale ground war might be an “unwanted” necessity.

    1. Olly, no disrespect, but we don’t need our boys on the ground being killed for Christians. I don’t think that is Christian.

  15. Rafflaw and Annie, at least a war on that basis would have a solid morality behind it. Most of the wars of my time have been fought for economic interests, as best I can determine. Thus your hoped for response is likely. Stopping slavery would seem to be noble regardless of parties involved. Even the mere resistance to the effort is important. Segue to the lesson of Ray Rice slugging his fiance and the step is not that big. When does an individual have to stand up, when does a group, then a nation, then a world have to stand up?
    Ah, shucks, it’s just the internet.

    1. Neighbor Dave -aw shucks it’s just the internet – Thank God. cause it’s the Noble Lie again. Please Keep our Boys off the Ground

  16. on 1, October 25, 2014 at 1:08 pmrafflaw
    I am glad that they are exercising their First Amendment rights and while I am concerned with the plight of Kurds, do we want another full scale ground war to go after ISIL/ISIS?
    ****************************
    No.

  17. Our hearts are broken over the sad circumstances Christian and Kurdish women are facing from ISIS controlled regions. Thank you for your efforts. We send prayer,but wish there was something more we could do to help.

  19. The way things are going at the WH they could probably hold the auction in the Oval Office if they can get past the guard dogs. Apparently the Secret Service is no problem.

    I do wish them luck with their endeavors.

  20. I am glad that they are exercising their First Amendment rights and while I am concerned with the plight of Kurds, do we want another full scale ground war to go after ISIL/ISIS?

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