“The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the direct result of all the politics that came into Iraq with the occupation.” CoursesResultsDirectIraqOccupationRootedIsisUpdates Author:Yanar Mohammed
“The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.” GovernmentMilitaryMembersPrisonIsisUs Military Author:Yanar Mohammed
“What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.” DoneCitiesDirectIraqExpectedHumiliationIsisEnslavementConcubines Author:Yanar Mohammed
“In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS.” WantSeeingResistanceAlsOccupationIsisMonstrousAl QaedaInhumane Author:Yanar Mohammed