ISIS Member on Trial in Germany

An Iraqi man in Frankfurt, Germany, is now on trial for crimes against the Yazidi people.  The ISIS terrorist, identified by the authorities as Taha Al-J, is alleged to have taken part in the effort of ISIS to exterminate the Yazidi community of Iraq.  Among the charges he faces is purchasing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl and chaining her outside an allowing her to die of thirst in the Iraqi heat.  His wife, a German convert to Islam, is also facing charges.  

 Al-J was active in ISIS from 2013 to 2019 and was recently arrested in Greece and extradited to Germany.  In 2015, he purchased the Yazidi child and her mother as slaves.  Al-J took them to Fallujah to work as domestic slaves and subjected both of them to frequent beatings and insufficient food.  Al-J ultimately chained the child up for misbehaving and allowed her to die.  The child's mother survived her enslavement as in currently in court testifying against Al-J and his wife.  
Al-J's wife is charged with being an accomplice to this murder, for seeing it happen, but doing nothing to stop it.  Al-J's wife, identified as Jennifer W., grew up as a Protestant in Lower Saxony, Germany, and converted to Islam in 2013.  The following year, she made her way to Syria and joined ISIS.  Upon joining, she served in the ISIS "morality police," in which she patrolled ISIS controlled regions and made sure that women obeyed the strict Sharia laws set by ISIS.  Jennifer W. is not the only European woman who converted to Islam and ultimately became radicalized.  ISIS specifically target women for conversion to their cause because they want to bring in brides so they can provide children for their Caliphate.  
Belgian Activist Dimitri Bontinch has specialized in rescuing people who have been indoctrinated into joining ISIS. In his book "Rescued from ISIS," Bontinch states that while some ISIS brides want to leave after the see the truth for what ISIS really is for themselves that some, like Jennifer W., become so thoroughly indoctrinated that they genuinely believe in the ideology of ISIS and become active supporters of it.  
Dimitri Bontinch's experience shows us that bringing ISIS killers to justice is only part of the battle.  Identifying their indoctrination tactics and learning how to effectively counter them is also a part of it.  Bad ideas cannot be defeated with bombs and bullets.  They can only be defeated by being exposed for what they are and countered with good ideas.  If this is not done, more people around the world will continue to be deceived into following the dark ways of ISIS, and the war on ISIS will never end.
Sources

"Alleged ISIS Member on Trial in Germany for Genocide and Murder."  The Guardian.  April 24, 2020.  Accessed from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/iraqi-goes-on-trial-in-germany-charged-with-genocide-and?CMP=share_btn_tw. 

Bontinch, Dimitri.  Rescued from ISIS.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Schuetze, Christopher.  "German Trial Accuses Iraqi of Genocide in Killing of Yazidi Girl.  New York Times.  April 25, 2020.  Accessed from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/world/europe/germany-genocide-trial-iraq-yazidi.html.

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