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To: zzpat who wrote (1083358)	8/17/2018 3:19:42 PM
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Look. You liberals want the US to do what Europe has done, letting in a bunch of people from dangerous Muslim majority countries, where their extremist views simply are not compatible with Western Culture. This is idiocy and devoid of common sense. I am glad I voted for Trump. Hillary said she would increase the immigration from Muslim countries in the Middle East from Obama's 50,000 to over 500,000. Under Trump, immigration from those countries is just a trickle. Good. We are safer from their extremist ideology. Unfortunately, we're not safe from your extremist ideology. Why don't you read about this girl who simply doesn't agree with your moronic views? We Americans have every right to do extreme vetting of these Muslim refugees to make sure we don't let in bad people. Open borders like what you folks want is lunacy. --------- 'I met my IS captor on a German street' Barham Ali/ Bas News "I never believed I would see something like this," Ashwaq told the BBCA Yazidi teenager sold into slavery by Islamic State has told the BBC of her horror after she escaped to Germany, only to come face-to-face with her captor in the street. Ashwaq was only 14 when Islamic State fighters stormed into northern Iraq, including the heartland of the Yazidi people. They took thousands of women as sex slaves, including Ashwaq - sold for $100 to a man named Abu Humam. Raped and beaten, she managed to escape three months later and then went to Germany with her mother and one brother. A few months ago, on the street outside a supermarket, she heard someone call out her name. She says it was Abu Humam - and he said he knew where she lived. "I never in my life believed that I would see something like this in Germany," she told the BBC. "I left my family and my country and went to Germany to forget the beating and the pain. The last thing I expected was to meet my IS captor and that he would know everything about me." Who are the Yazidis? Iraq's minorities fear for their future 'It goes straight to your heart... you can't imagine' Germany's federal prosecutor says Ashwaq reported the incident to the police five days after she said it took place. Ashwaq says she told investigators everything, including her harrowing experiences in Iraq. Officers made an e-fit of the suspect and told her to contact the police immediately if she saw Abu Humam again. She says she also told the police to check the supermarket's CCTV, but says this did not happen. "I waited a whole month," she says, but received no news. Fearful that she would see her captor again and wishing to be reunited with four of her sisters who had since been rescued from IS, Ashwaq returned to northern Iraq, leaving behind the town of Schwäbisch Gmünd where she had hoped to start a new life. "If you haven't been through it, you won't know what it's like... it goes straight to your heart," she said. "When a girl is raped by IS, you can't imagine what it's like when you see this guy again." 'Not an isolated case' Frauke Köhler, a spokeswoman for Germany's top court, says police made every effort to locate Abu Hummam using the e-fit image and Ashwaq's testimony, but were unable to find him. By the time they contacted her again in June this year as part of the investigation, Ashwaq had already left for Iraq. However, activists in Germany say her case may not be an isolated incident. Düzen Tekkal, an activist and the founder of Hawar.Help, a Berlin-based organisation which campaigns for Yazidi rights, says she has heard of several cases where female Yazidi refugees recognised IS fighters in Germany. Ashwaq herself says she heard similar accounts from other Yazidi girls who had escaped the jihadists. Not all cases are reported to the authorities, however. 'I would never go to Germany again'Back in Kurdistan now living in a Yazidi camp, Ashwaq still wants to continue her education but both she and her family also want to leave the country. "We're scared of the people of IS," her father told the BBC. But her experience in Germany has had a profound impact on Ashwaq. "If the world was destroyed, I would not go to Germany again," she said. Like many Yazidis, her family is now applying to live in Australia as part of a special programme for women abducted by IS.