Since the christians are so much more violent, you'll easily be able to find a parallel, or worse situation in a christian country, right?? @Deephaven
CALLIMACHI: Yes. And the girls talked about how - the girls - the women - they were very perplexed. You know, they're taking into a room. Their hands are often bound, and they, of course, know what's going to happen. And then the man who's about to rape them takes, you know, a couple of minutes to kneel next to the bed and pray before he rapes her. The then prays again after having completed the act. In effect, this act of sexual torture is being bookended by an act of faith.
BLOCK: And just as a sense of how ingrained this culture and this system is, you describe Islamic State courts that are notarizing sale contracts for slaves - a how-to manual that's been published, wholesalers that are buying women who are given numbers and then advertising the sale of these girls to buyers.
CALLIMACHI: That's the thing that was the most shocking for me when I came to Iraq to start reporting on this story. What I didn't realize is the extent of the infrastructure that has been put in place, the extent of a bureaucracy of rape, if you will. You know, horrifyingly, some of these women were sold five, six times. Every single sale entails a rape by a new man.
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