They 'only' kill the boys.

Those girls sure are lucky to be girls, getting off with getting raped.

I'm being serious BTW.

I'm sure what you feel is a matter of personal perspective further approved by one of your robotic guests. I truly believe you are serious.....from the anonymous safety of your keyboard.

Manal Omar hits the nail on the head first cleanly, but finally, crookedly. She writes, "These are attacks that are used to cause terror, to cause, again, submission of communities... not just a humanitarian issue or something that affects women ... [its about] sexual violence as a tool of war.

"ISIS is very strategic in that use, and it’s something that we have to think strategically about as well to counter their narrative.

... there’s a taboo in underreporting... a failure for us to acknowledge the hard side of the use of sexual violence in terms of security. We continue to see it as a softer side, as a humanitarian side... [but] I mean, the Islamic State is using religious justification."

Yes, Omar is right. These attacks on women are not just the atrocities women are often exposed to in conflicts. Here sexual violence is used as a strategic weapon, as the discrete spear of a terror campaign designed to overwhelm the public into submission.

She errs however, in insisting that this perverse tactic is unique to ISIS and its misled zealots. At its very inception Islam adopted the habit of selling or giving as gifts female captives. Deliberate unspeakable terror was the way a small army galloping out of Arabia achieved the submission of vast populations so quickly in the 7th century. The fanatics of the Iraq insurgency, and now of ISIS, are not all unfeeling brutes. It is vast historical precedent and incontrovertible hadiths and suras that have convince them of the necessity and morality of their method.

Sad, but not much different than any other war, including the gang wars in Central America. U.N. resolutions and conventions are only as good as the will to enforce them, and that typically only happens long after the fighting has stopped.