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# The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State Hardcover – November 7, 2017

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderful Book
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2022*

Islam, while not stupendously tolerant, has allowed the existence of many ancient religions, including many varieties of Christianity, long exterminated elsewhere. Who could have imagined that real Zorastrian congregations still exist? Recent religious, ethnic and political fanaticisms, many generated [if abhorred] by America, Israel and their violences, are now strangling many of these to death. Nadia Murad belongs [or belonged--whether this people has in its recognizable forms been eradicated is a matter of definition] to one such group, the Yazidi people, a huge proportion of whom were enslaved, murdered, torn from their families and communities, and gang raped by ISIS, an organization even more depraved, if possible, than its reputation would suggest.  The Yazidi have, or had, problems familiar to all of us. An insular society, its doctrines were defined by a tiny coterie of man, and mostly unknown or misunderstood by the majority who were nonetheless required to believe and obey them without question. Yazidi beliefs and practices are as absurd and constraining as those of all the rest of us, and as strictly and rigidly enforced. "Marrying out" elicited a death sentence, which often set off a spiral of retaliatory violence between the Yasidis and the neighboring community into which any apostate had hoped to marry. They do not accept converts. The men treat women with the same  indfference and oppression as patriarchal societies [all or almost all societies] do. Their elders have obstructed education of girls, realizing that any knowledge will undermine their submissiveness and docility. Community identity was consolidated by repeated narratives of past massacres, frequent but never genocidal  Insularity provided the warm sense of belonging that often comforts members of such communities--everyone was within walking distance of scores of friends and relatives. But there were drawbacks. The author's captors and rapists taunted her with the idea that because she had converted to Islam [under threat of death] and was no longer a virgin [having been gang raped by innumerable men] she would not be welcomed back into the Yazidi community, a threat she took so seriously that she kept her forced conversion and numerous rapes secret after she escaped. In what she regards as magnificent generosity, the Elders did accept victims such as her back into the fold, probably because so many Yazidis had been murdered, or "converted", displaced, or gang raped, that without them they would have no followers.ISIS destroyed a considerable portion of the Yazidi community.Nadia Murad laments that the internet, cable tv, modern consumer culture, and vast emigration have probably irrevocably destroyed most vestiges of traditional Yazidi beliefs and practices. Before all this, the author herself ran a small hair salon out of her family home.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Powerful
  

*by S***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 14, 2022*

The most courageous and terrifying book I’ve ever read.I played a small role in coordinating for humanitarian relief airdrops to Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar while stationed in Kuwait in August 2014. It felt truly important at the time. Now it seems so small, futile, and insignificant.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Never Close Your Eyes To Truth
  

*by L***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 16, 2019*

I have always been fascinated by real stories from real people--their culture, values, environment, the things, events and people that shaped them and added to their life's purpose or passion. This true story does not disappoint! In fact, I had a hard time putting it down once I started.  In terms of the writing and all else that goes into writing a book, this one is of excellent quality. The grammar and punctuation, sentence structure, editing etc., are impeccable. The author provides a map so the reader can identify key places in the story. There are photos of various family members and adequate explanations for words that the average person, unfamiliar with the various ethnicities, politics, culture and religions of Iraq would not be familiar with. Nadia does an excellent job bringing her country to life for the reader and allowing us a glimpse of what life was like before ISIS took over her beloved village and changed the lives of so many.  As we look back at even our own country's history, I'm sure there are tragedies that caused alarm, suffering and great loss. Tragedies such as: JFK's assassination, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Holocaust, 9/11/2001,Columbine and other school shootings, the Challenger explosion, Patty Hearst kidnapping, the Las Vegas shooting, Hurricane Katrina, etc. So much devastation and yet so many of us banded together, shared our stories, offered our thoughts, prayers and support. We felt compelled to be a part of the solution rather than part of the problem. We faced the ugliness head on. And then time flew by and our memories faded some. Do we ever wonder at what cost? Who will the bad guys target next? Will it be more strangers, an acquaintance or friend? Will it be one of us and our families. What and who will be left? There may always be another terrorist or evil-doer in this world. Are we prepared to look at the ugly truths so we aren't caught unaware and forced to lose the very things and people who define us? One can only hope. Nadia and her courageous story brings us a step or two closer to looking at real world problems such as genocide, terrorism and much more. She reminds us to be aware, to help others and to take a strong stand against injustice!

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