QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted. He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrate
![ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape (Published 2015)](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/2007dea747308407fa85e1e67af9d05d8665a6bb/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2015%2F08%2F13%2Fworld%2Fmiddleeast%2F20150813-ISISSLAVE-slide-CON6%2F20150813-ISISSLAVE-slide-CON6-facebookJumbo-v2.jpg%3Fyear%3D2015%26h%3D550%26w%3D1050%26s%3Df23451e866fc1d2cff6e17ac77a047a8f77fea09773f106a3e11224935b6c87d%26k%3DZQJBKqZ0VN)