Her role saw her patrol parks in Mosul
Some people have a very strange idea of “morality.” The BBC reports:
A female Islamic State group member accused of letting a five-year-old girl die of thirst in scorching sunlight is facing war crimes charges in Germany.
The 27-year-old German, identified as Jennifer W, and her husband bought the child as a house “slave” in the IS-occupied Iraqi city of Mosul 2015.
Her husband chained the girl up outside after she fell ill and Jennifer W did nothing to save her, prosecutors say.
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The five-year-old girl was among a group of prisoners-of-war when Jennifer W and her husband bought her.
German media say the child may have been a member of the Yazidi minority, many of whom were captured and enslaved by IS as the militant group swept across northern Iraq in 2014.
“After the girl fell ill and wet her mattress, the husband of the accused chained her up outside as punishment and let the child die in agony of thirst in the scorching heat,” prosecutors said in a statement.
“The accused allowed her husband to do so and did nothing to save the girl.”
Jennifer W travelled to Iraq in 2014, where she became a member of IS’s self-styled morality police, the allegations against her say.
Her role saw her patrol parks in Mosul and another IS-occupied city, Fallujah, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a pistol and an explosives vest, prosecutors said.
“Her task was to ensure that women comply with the behavioural and clothing regulations established by the terrorist organisation,” said the statement.
So “morality” is forcing women to wear tent-like garments that render them effectively invisible. “Morality” is not giving water and shade to a sick child chained up in the sun, nor is it abstaining from “buying” a child as a slave in the first place. “Morality” has nothing to do with compassion and kindness, it’s all about the systematic forcible violently-enforced concealment of women.
A pity the husband was not also caught.
Moralism attracts true evil and cloaks it in righteousness.
Lady M, that is so true. And if you try to speak out against it, why, you become immoral. What? You want women to walk naked in the park? No…well, if they want to I suppose it’s not my business, but…no, that isn’t what I’m saying, I’m saying…what? you want everyone to have sex with everyone else?…Look, if they want to, it’s their business, as long as they are alert, awake, not drunk, and of age…
Why, you immoral beast! You want to work against morality!
No, I just see moral as meaning something a bit…different…than whether women wear burkas or bikinis…
The morality of a believer is measured by the degree of the believer’s obedience to the system that is the source of morality. Not seeing the voluntary nature of actions based on beliefs leads to the results reported. Evil for believers is the organized opposition to their own believing community. The price of the need for closure to relieve anxiety from uncertainty is loss of freedom.
Carse, The Religious Case Against Belief; Kruglanski; Kahneman