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The Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council has clarified that it will *not* accept into the community children born to ISIS fathers as a result of rape. Only those who were kidnaped by the group during the genocide.
The council implied last week that children born of genocidal rape wld be welcomed back, giving hope to mothers who feared they'd have to abandon children in order to return home. But statement proved highly controversial among community, some politicians explicitly rejected it.
The Q of what happens to these children is deeply painful for Yazidi community. According to the faith & also to Iraqi law, a child is only considered Yazidi if they have 2 Yazidi parents. Children of the 1000s kidnapped & sexually enslaved by ISIS are seen by many as outcasts.
