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Islamic State’s human
organ harvesting is sanctioned by a fatwa issued last January, when the group’s
Islamic scholars explained that internals of ‘apostates’ could be extracted
from their bodies for the needs of Muslims, even if the ‘donors’ die. A document obtained by Reuters
reveals that organs harvesting is charitable deed by codes of Islamic State
(IS, former ISIS/ISIL), maintains IS’ Research and Fatwa Committee.
“The
apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with
impunity,” says Fatwa (religious ruling) #68 issued January 31, 2015. “The
notion that transplanting healthy organs into a Muslim person’s body in order
to save the latter's life or replace a damaged organ with it is permissible,”
the document says, specifying that removal of organs that “end the captive's
life” is also not prohibited.
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The
Fatwa #68 was reportedly found in a trove of other Islamic State’s documents
obtained by the US Special Forces as a result of raid into eastern Syria in
May. Reuters could not independently confirm the authenticity of the document.
The
data retrieved in May has been compiled into ‘Lessons Learned From the Abu
Sayyaf Raid’ package exposing IS of justifying practices punishable elsewhere
in the world, the human organs trafficking being just one of them.
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The
raid in May that resulted in killing Abu Sayyaf, IS’s top financial official,
brought the US seven terabytes of data from terrorist’s computer hard drives,
thumb drives, CDs, DVDs and papers, Reuters cited Brett McGurk, the US
president's special envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL.
In
February this year, Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohamed Alhakim,
called on the 15-member UN Security Council to look at allegations of organ
removal by the IS, urging the UNSC to investigate the issue.
He
informed that bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys had been
discovered in shallow mass graves on Iraqi territory.
“We
have bodies. Come and examine them,” Alhakim said. "It is clear they
are missing certain parts."
He
also said several doctors had been executed in Mosul for refusing to
participate in organ harvesting.
In
August the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported
of French-speaking IS militants openly discussing harvesting human organs from
sex slaves on social media back in September 2014.
The
fatwa obtained by Reuters does not define who could be attributed as ‘Kafir’
(disbeliever in Islam), but enslaving of minorities practicing other religions
on the territories controlled by IS is a well-established fact. Thousands of
Iraqi women have already been forced into sex slavery, with as many as 3,000
women and girls having been taken captive only from the Yazidi tribe in Iraq
during IS offensives across the region.
IS
has issued a number of fatwas, providing legal justification to a range of
criminal and openly barbaric practices.
For
example Fatwa #64 issued on January 29, 2015, presents regulations for rape,
explaining in detail when and how Islamic State militants should have sexual
intercourse with female slaves.
IS
even has a fatwa justifying cannibalism in extreme circumstances.
“A group of Islamic scholars have permitted, if necessary, one to kill the apostate in order to eat his flesh, which is part of benefiting from his body,” the regulation says.
“A group of Islamic scholars have permitted, if necessary, one to kill the apostate in order to eat his flesh, which is part of benefiting from his body,” the regulation says.
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