ISIS: Enslaving, having sex with 'unbelieving' women, girls is OK

"(CNN) -- Can you take non-Muslim women and children captive? Yes, says ISIS.

Can you have sex with them, even prepubescent girls? Yes, according to the Islamist extremist group.

Can you sell them or give them as gifts to others? The answer is yes, once again."

Where do I begin? The deeper you go into this story, the more horrific it gets. Women and girls raped and held as sex slaves, not only as the spoils of war, but as a religious right. The fundamental dignity of women and children being savagely violated by predators masking themselves as holy religious followers is akin to psychological and sexual genocide.  One only needs to hear stories from past war 'comfort women' to know these men are murdering the souls of their victims. Sexual assault is not just the episode-it's a lifetime of PTSD, depression, anxiety, and not trusting you will ever be safe or whole again-and that's if these women somehow escape their tormenters.

"Even then, it is rare to see its rationale laid out as plainly as in "Question and Answers on Female Slaves and their Freedom."

In the document, for instance, it is explained that capturing women is permissible if they are "nonbelievers." It adds, "Female slaves are the women that Muslims took from their enemies."

Much of the pamphlet talks about ISIS' policy on having sexual intercourse with a female slave, something that the group cites the Quran to justify.

Armed men distributed this pamphlet Friday to worshipers in Mosul, outlining what's permissible to do with non-Muslim captives.

"If she was a virgin, he (the owner) can have intercourse with her immediately after the ownership is fulfilled," ISIS explains. "If she was not a virgin, her uterus must be purified (wait for her period to be sure she is not pregnant.)"

There are other rules as well, like that two men who co-own a captive can't both have sex with her and that a man can't have intercourse with his wife's slave.

As to girls: "It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn't reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse," the document reads. "However, if she is not fit for intercourse, he (the owner ) can only enjoy her without intercourse." -CNN

Yesterday's killing of a hundred and forty-three children in a Pakistani school further illustrates no one is immune to being a target. It is unfathomable that anyone who believes in any religious ideology could perpetrate such hatred towards innocent women and children, justifying it by God's will.