She was covered from head to toe in black. Identifying herself only as Um Bassam, the mother of Bassam, she told me she was 25 years old, the mother of four children, a widow, and from the city of Aleppo.
All around her were clusters of other women with similar stories, also clad in black, faces concealed, with their children huddled beside them. It had rained just a few hours before. Babies were crying. Used diapers, discarded clothing, bags, empty tins of beans and hummus, and human feces littered the ground. While many of the displaced said they were forced to live under ISIS rule, the last of the civilians to leave the group's areas say they are strong supporters of its radical ideology.
"And the mass murder or enslavement of minority religious group the Yazidis? The slaughter of Shia Muslims?"All we know is the book and the law of the Almighty says whoever fights Sunnis, whoever kills Sunnis, whoever does not rule by the law of the Almighty, then that's it," she replied."They must be slaughtered. That is the law of the Almighty. We can't change it.
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