A translation of one of the ISIS Research and Fatwa Committee rulings published on Friday says members of the terror group could rape their sex slaves, eat the flesh of apostates and harvest the organs of prisoners to save Muslim life.
The fatwas, or religious rulings, were part of a data captured by American soldiers when they raided the hideout of a major Daesh finance official in May. The special forces team killed the Islamic State (IS) officer, Abu Sayyaf, and seized seven terabytes of data that contain the fatwas.
Reuters reports that Sayyaf is really a Tunisian named Fathi ben Awn ben Jildi Murad al-Tunisi who was killed, while his wife was captured.
Part of Fatwa Number 68 reads, "The apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with impunity," quotes the New York Daily News. To justify the religious ruling, the committee cites and Islamic principles and laws that indicate "transplanting healthy organs from an apostate's body into a Muslim body in order to save the latter's life or replace a damaged organ."
Meanwhile, Fatwa Number 64 lists the rules when male members of the terror organization acquires the right to have sex with women slaves. It supports reports that captured American aid worker Kayla Mueller became a personal sex slave of Abu Bakr a-Baghdadi before she died in the hands of the IS in early 2015. The team also freed in eastern Syria another 18-year-old woman who was a sex slave.
Reports of the Daesh killing 12 Mosul physicians who declined to remove organs from alive people prompted Mohamed Ali Alhakim, the Iraq ambassador to the United Nations, to seek in February a UN investigation.
The seized data adds to inhuman or ridiculous fatwas issued by Islamic leaders such as a ban on building of snowmen, throwing from the top of towers gay men and murder of infants born with Down syndrome.