: Christopher Reynolds Staff Reporter,
Published on Sat Aug 15 2015
A Montreal businessman has spearheaded the
release of what he says are 128 Yazidi and
Christian girls and young women from sexual
slavery at the hands of Islamic State militants,
with a project in motion to save many more.
Steve Maman, already being dubbed the “Jewish
Schindler” of Iraqi minorities by news outlets, is
reported to have raised more than $200,000 — $
50,000 over one recent weekend alone — to pay
for the release of the captives during the past
year. Ten more are expected to be liberated in the
coming days.
As the world watched in horror while the Islamic
State extremist group swept through northern
Iraq last summer, capturing and executing
thousands of members of the country’s
minorities, Maman said he felt compelled to act.
“It’s a level of barbarism which was on another
level of persecution,” the 42-year-old father of six
said.
“The Talmud teaches us, whoever saves one life
saves the world entire” — an aphorism quoted
famously by Liam Neeson in the 1993 Oscar
winner Schindler’s List.
Last August, up to 5,000 Yazidis were executed,
sometimes en masse, in Iraq’s Sinjar district and
beyond, according to the United Nations Office of
the High Commissioner on Human Rights.
Thousands more women and girls were sold into
sexual servitude or taken as brides by Islamic
State fighters, UN researchers found.
Canon Andrew White, until recently the pastor of
one of the largest churches in Baghdad,
connected Maman with negotiators and helped
him navigate Iraq’s web of tribal networks.
“He is somebody who is really like a brother. He’s
the first person who’s come to our aid,” White
told the Star by phone from Israel.
Montreal’s Rabbi Saadiah Elhadad called for
deeper military commitments from western
leaders.
“I would like to see more organizations and
people around the world emulate this kind of
action,” he said.
A friend of Maman, Elhadad noted the rescue
project’s so far unsuccessful appeals for cash to
more than 60 church organizations across the
country.
Maman, a Canadian of Sephardic Jewish descent,
drew parallels to the Holocaust, “except in the
Holocaust they would burn bodies of people that
were already dead; here, they’re actually burning
them to kill them.”
Last year the crystal wholesaler and classic cars
dealer called on his business contacts and friends
in the Jewish community to finance his project,
titled the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi
Children of Iraq (CYCI).
Maman also worked his industry connections in
Baghdad to reach hostage negotiators and United
Nations and government officials.
Things began to snowball after he launched a
GoFundMe account last month that set a target of
half a million dollars. He’s now said to be aiming
for $5 million.
The money has made its way through front-line
brokers, who take a hefty cut, to Islamic State
combatants in the mountain ranges of Iraqi
Kurdistan, Maman said. The girls can return to
safety only for a fee of between $1,000 and $
3,000, many having suffered violent physical and
sexual abuse, he said.
About 2,700 young women and girls remain in
captivity behind Islamic State lines, according to
Maman. “If we get half of them, we’ll be lucky,” he
said.
A CYCI promotional video shows a young woman,
taken from Mosul as a sex slave, reuniting with
her father in an emotional embrace on the
outskirts of the northern city of Dohuk last
month. Until very recently, neither knew if the
other was alive.
Maman cited Oskar Schindler, the German factory
owner credited with saving up to 1,200 Jewish
lives during the Holocaust, as a source of
inspiration.
“He’s a hero not just to me but to every human
being,” Maman said. He also nodded to the lesser
known Sir Nicholas Winton — “the British Oskar
Schindler.”
Like Schindler, Maman’s early focus on the
bottom line morphed into a humanitarian
mission in a crisis. The Moroccan-born
Montrealer’s initial interest in Iraq was based on
business. He said he was in the market for classic
cars to import.
The Yazidi religion is one of Iraq’s oldest and
includes mostly ethnically Kurdish members.
Assyrian Christians, one of the last groups to
speak Aramaic, the language believed to have
been spoken by Jesus Christ, have also faced
brutal persecution over the past year, with
gruesome images appearing on Islamic State
social media accounts.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Canadian-
trained Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq last May,
announcing $139 million in humanitarian aid.
Gill Rosenberg, a Canadian-Israeli Jewish woman
originally from Vancouver, spent the past nine
months battling Islamic State militants on the
front lines in Iraq and Syria. Now she has united
with CYCI, appearing in a video posted to their
Facebook page last Wednesday.
“What I saw happening was a genocide and not
just a traditional war,” said the 31-year-old former
Israeli Defense Forces soldier, believed to be the
first female foreign fighter to join Kurdish forces.
“When you target women and children and
kidnap them and sell them into sex slavery, at
that point you are trying to destroy a people, and
I couldn’t stay quiet and allow that to happen,”
she said.
“I was raised with a strong Holocaust education,
and I truly believe that when we say never again,
that doesn’t just apply to the Jewish people, but
to anyone.”


Source; www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/08/15/jewish-schindler-rescues-iraqi-girls-from-slavery.bb.html

The religion of doom=islam.

And muslims are Reluctant to condemn these evil acts just because their paedophile "prophet" was a slave sex owner and trader.