Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, are seen as they prepare tea for breakfast at Bajed Kadal refugee camp, southwest of Dohuk province, August 23, 2014.
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, are seen as they prepare tea for breakfast at Bajed Kadal refugee camp, southwest of Dohuk province, August 23, 2014. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal

A new video is widely circulated, showing Islamic State fighters laughing and enjoying trading kidnapped Yazidi women in a market, according to rtnews.The ISIL has posted its injunctions on enslaving women on its online English website, Dabiq, and claims that it is banking on some religious reference that permits slave women for men who are otherwise not allowed to commit adultery.

It also says that Yazidis can be enslaved, for they are not "people of the Book," i.e. Muslims, Christians or Jews., according to telegraph.com. One militant with a beard in the video declared that it was the market day of female slaves, so they should get their share. He is seated on a couch surrounded by other militants. The video, shot in Mosul, an Iraqi city and Islamic State stronghold that had been conquered in June, was released by the Islamic State last month and has now been translated by Al Aan TV, a TV station in Dubai. One man asks repeatedly for his Yazidi girl, while others just laugh.

"Whoever wants to sell his slave, whoever wants to give his slave as a present...everyone is free to do what he wants with his share," says the bearded fighter, looking eager to get one of his own.

One man advances with a girl for sale. The two then begin to bargain, as the buyer offers three to five bills for the girl. The bargain continues, with the buyer saying that the price will be different according to the color of the girl's eyes. Blue and green-eyed teens go for the highest price, according to Daily Mail. He also says that he would have to check her teeth before he finalises the deal. "If she doesn't have teeth, why would I want her?" he says.

IS militants had enslaved thousands of Yazidi women and girls in August, even as they moved through the Sinjar mountains, which housed the tiny Yazidi community for thousands of years. Girls and women were brutally sundered from families and forced to convert, according to a Human Rights Watch report (HRW). There were eyewitnesses for the sale, says Independent.co

The Islamic State is proud of its revival of slavery, bragging that it is empowered to make slaves of the Yazidi girls, who belong to a Kurdish minority that follows a religion linked to Zoroastrianism with the influence of Sufi Islam. Once they are kidnapped, the women and children are divided according to the Sharia among the militants who were part of the Sinjar battle, according to the IS propaganda magazine, Dabiq. In September, more than 120 Muslim scholars have written an open letter to the IS leaders, condemning their interpretation of the Koran and Sharia.

Source: YouTube/Al Aan TV