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Yazidi girl Nadia Murad visits Egypt

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Nadia Murad Basee Taha, the 21-year old Yazidi woman brutally tortured and raped by ISIS fighters in Iraq, has embarked on a very tricky mission: to confront the Muslim world with the crimes of ISIS. She is visiting Egypt to raise awareness of the atrocities committed by the Islamic State.

Murad was living in Kocho, a village near northern Iraq, with her mother, brothers and sisters. On August 15, 2014, ISIS fighters stormed her village; they executed six of her brothers and then took her to the Iraqi city of Mosul, where they “distributed” her and many others to be enslaved by the fighters “They took us to Mosul with more than 150 other Yazidi families. In a building, there were thousands of Yazidi families and children who were exchanged as ‘gifts’,” she said.

Murad testified at the U.N. Security Council (watch the whole video here) and gave several…

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Misunderstandings

While it isn’t a good thing to constantly relive the past, I find that remembering and retelling the story helps me view situations with different lenses, new perspectives, and under different lighting. While sometimes that colors a memory badly, occasionally there are times when we must stand corrected, and acknowledge we were wrong…
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Video: Patti Smith Celebrates Her 69th Birthday At The Fillmore: SFist

The great and legendary Patti Smith did a series of three shows at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium last week, culminating in a New Year’s Eve show, and also including a show on her birthday, December 30th. Doing a trio of shows over these same three days of the year was something she began doing in the 1970s in New York and continued doing in the last decade at Bowery Ballroom, often featuring Michael Stipe with a birthday cake, and this year San Francisco got the honor.

Source: Video: Patti Smith Celebrates Her 69th Birthday At The Fillmore: SFist