One day seeing the news reports said enough. This Canadian businessman has already saved more than 120 girls and raises funds to rescue another 3,000.
The Islamic State ravages wherever it goes. Destroy, burn, kill … And if the victims are women, be they girls or adults, it can still be worse. Being a sex slave. Be repeatedly raped, dozens of times each day, by jihadists or be sold to the highest bidder. Even the Islamist group publishes the prices they sell to the women they capture.
These women are in most cases belonging to religious minorities such as Christian or Yazidíes , many of them girls who do not exceed ten years. A barbarism against which the West, at the moment, does not want to face and the one that looks with ashamed sideways knowing that in the future will be remembered the cowardice of a generation that did not fight against the most absolute barbarism.
Fighting against the barbarity of the Islamic State
However, there are people who have decided to do something even though they may have been labeled crazy. This is the case of an entrepreneur who has said enough of the horror that comes from Syria and Iraq through television and the internet. His name is Steve Maman , a Canadian Jew, who has launched to rescue slave girls and women from the Islamic state out of a living hell.
This businessman quotes Oscar Schindler, the businessman who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazis and who reflected Steven Spielberg on Schindler’s List, as his inspiration when it comes to playing all or nothing to save the weakest and most forgotten.
He was one of the tens of millions of people who saw through the newscasts the defenselessness of Christians before the Islamic State and said enough. Made contacts in Iraq to negotiate the release of the n Iñas and instantly began to raise money to continue to release many more. At the moment there are more than 120 girls who have saved and managed to give back to their families. But for Steve Maman, it is a very small number so he has opened a website to continue to raise money and rescue more than 3,000 Christians and Yazidis who are currently sex slaves.
” I can not keep my arms crossed”
As he relates, one day seeing the brutal images on TV “I said to myself: I can not keep my arms crossed. I will not continue to see the news and remain without doing anything.”
In the face of the current situation, this Jewish businessman reflects that “the price of a child’s life to get rid of ISIS is between 1,000 and 3,000 dollars. We, as avid consumers, spend that money on devices and tools. ¿ Why not spend that money to save a life? “.
The horror that account goes further and points out that “some to s of these girls have just eight years old. They are not only at the mercy of the combatants, but also the rest of men residing in Mosul, men of different ages, In some cases over 60. The rapes, abuse and brutality they suffer in the hands of their captors go beyond the imagination. ”
“There are many reports that the captors have beheaded innocent girls and women who refused to perform certain sexual acts,” as well as “teenagers sold to brothels to be raped up to 30 times a day,” added Steve Maman.
” Nothing is impossible”
After all, the Canadian businessman decided to act. ” Nothing is impossible,” he told himself. And he wondered about Oskar Schindler and what people would think at the time about his intention to save Jews within the Third Reich.
Through its page Liberation Iraq Christian & Yazidi has already raised more than 360,000 dollars and aims to reach two million. With them he believes he will be able to rescue more than 3,000 women and girls currently in the hands of jihadists. So far, he managed to rescue the Christians and Yazidis with donations made by other Jewish entrepreneurs to whom he asked for help. He is currently trying to get Catholics involved in his project and all together begin to change the world.