Unbelievable.

The Islamic State group has ordered females in its territory in Iraq to undergo female circumcision, the UN's resident and humanitarian coordinator in Iraq has said - a claim rejected by activists linked to the group.

The decree was posted on Twitter, but its authenticity was rejected by Islamic State affiliated websites and Twitter accounts.

When asked by Al Jazeera when the group would issue a statement, one Islamic State sympathiser said: "They have better things to do with their time than retracting bogus claims."

However, local reports suggest that it was not issued by the Islamic State group, and a statement had not been issued by its media division.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/un-islamic-state-orders-genital-mutilation-201472412511366171.html

"They have better things to do with their time than retracting bogus claims."
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That they do. They're very busy hunting down and assassinating innocent Christians, atheists and other unbelievers who refuse to convert to Islam.

If you now find it spurious Isis has ordered female genital mutilation, then perhaps you should update your post, or else perpetuate this false apparent propaganda. I'll assume that's not something you're comfortable with.

I am simply reporting what the UN said. What you do with it is up to you. I don't know for sure whether ISIS ordered that or not. I know they are capable of it. They are capable of anything.

There's nothing about it on the UN website.

Jacqueline Badcock Responds to a Tweet would be a more accurate headline for you.

But now I don't know what to believe! Quick, somebody tell me what to think about this!

The BBC is also questioning the validity of the fatwa.

Yes. I doubt it now myself. However, I reported what Irish Times was printing and before I posted it, I did my best to vet it and found this confirmatory piece in Al Ayabya.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/24/-ISIS-order-female-genital-mutilation-in-Iraq.html

Correction: Al Arabya
SE still needs an editor for maybe 5 minutes after a post.

No, they're not: http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/07/24/3463683/no-isis-isnt-ordering-female-genital-mutilation-in-iraq/

Again ISIS being all warm and fuzzy

How barbaric ARE these wankers? This is staggering.

They are the new Nazis. (yeah, I know about Godwin)

You are a poor facsimile of the old maryyugo.

The posts are not about Muslims. Coincidentally, the Ayatollah and ISIS say they are Muslim.

So go ahead and post some pro-Muslim posts. Better yet, tell me what sweet things ISIS and the Iranian government have ever done for their own people, much less for me.

The old maryyugo would say that it wasn't the evil brown people that made the religion look bad, it was the evil religion that made the brown people bad. Being nonchalant about their religion seems a little inconsistent.

No. Old and new maryyugo say that it's not about the skin color or the religion. It's about the beliefs, customs, and most of all actions. I don't care what you call it or who does it, I hate ignorance, violence, and the unnecessary forcing of misery and restrictions on people. And guess who does that the most in the present day world?

That would be mostly white, male capitalists and their mostly white, male political cronies.

That would be mostly religious radicals and in the modern world, mainly Islamic ones though there are plenty around of other stripes albeit in smaller quantities and with much less freedom to maneuver in their surroundings.

Radicals and extremists of all stripes are fueled by inequity, economic desperation,and political expedience. It certainly can be argued that the ignorance and obstruction on climate change perpetuated by fat cat energy interests is a far bigger global threat than any religious radicals (although there is some overlap here with radical religious christians).

So we can agree that the world, with the fat cat white corporate money and power hounds along with religious extremists and a healthy dose of inequality has fucked us up beyond repair.

How man has survived this long is a mystery. But then again, we are on course for self-destruction.

Actually I would disagree that we are fucked up beyond repair and headed for self destruction. I may be a cynic but I'm no nihilist, I remain hopeful that we can reason ourselves out of any calamity we can cook up.
We did manage, after all, to survive the Cold War. In spite of recent events, that outcome alone gives me hope for the future.

Shall we consider ISIS to be now establishing Sunni territory in a three-state solution? The Kurds seem well settled and defended up north, and the Shiites get whatever they can keep hold of? There'd then be more stable boundaries instead of us squeezing perpetually hostile cultures within borders established by France/UK for the purpose of creating turmoil and weakened resistance to their post WW1 colonial control.

It sounds good in theory. But look at how partition went down between India and Pakistan, or the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Things got nasty pretty quickly and while the immediate borders seem more stable, the tension is still bubbling away underneath.

India and Pakistan sounds a fair comparison, unnatural culturally-splitting borders forced on a people to support UK colonialism. Kasmir culturally aligns with Pakistan, and India has no right to it beyond UK's claim.

Once an Iraqi three-state solution is brought to a head, I expect tension to remain, of course. One way to reduce that followup tension is ISIS's approach of removing or taxing all Christians and whoever else may challenge majority Sunni control in their area. Then tension remains at any disputed borders, if at all.

Re-aligning borders based on violence or cultural demographics seems like a slippery slope.

It will open the floodgates for every other minority to claim territory as their own. Separatism will become the norm, and more violence will occur. It will also allow nations to claim territory from their neighbors citing cultural and historical ownership.

Example : Ukraine, Basques, Kashmir, will that mean that the Kurds will want to claim part of Turkey? What about Syria? Armenia?

Then there would be arguments over oil fields, reparations, etc. Debates over which historical record of borders will be used, and nobody can play neutral arbiter over any of it.

Complicated. Consequences will be felt globally.

War and territorialism are innately human, and will likely continue. The reduction of poverty and inequality helps, though.

But then again, the original borders of Iraq were based on Western imperial interests, so the slipper slope was already set.

It'd actually be pretty simple if it wasn't for the oil fields.

There is no oil in Ukraine. Not so simple there. Or in Kashmir.

True that.

I stand corrected. Maybe no oil, but oil is involved nevertheless.

http://www.vice.com/read/how-putins-american-fixers-keep-russian-sanctions-toothless-724

Don't know how reliable Vice News is.

Vice news is surprisingly good - actual reporters on the scene.