Steve Maman, a Jewish businessman from the Canadian city of Montreal … last year launched a campaign to save women and adolescent girls from the grip of the organization of the Islamic state “Daesh.”
When he invaded northern Iraq Daesh summer 2014, his fighters attacked Sinjar mountain where he lives most of the Yazidis, and kidnapped hundreds of women, children and pushed them into slavery.
Today, leading the Jewish international campaign for the release of 128 Yezidi girl and a Christian sexual slavery practiced by Daesh on its victims are women.
“Hindler Jewish”
And nicknamed the Western press Steve Maman, “the Jewish Hindler”, in reference to Oskar Schindler, one of the most prominent businessmen in the Nazi era. The cause of Schindler to save hundreds of Jews who worked in his factories of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution in Poland.
The story was the subject of a famous Hindler film directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993 and won seven Oscars, entitled “Regulations Hindler.”
Confirm media reports that Maman, 42, collected just over 200 thousand dollars in two days to be paid to the kidnappers in exchange for the release of militants abducted Aloesidat.
It is expected to release Daesh released 10 of these women in the next few days.
He described Maman, a father of six children, what he did Daesh women as “barbaric persecution,” adding that “the Talmud teaches us that saves the life of one person saved as if all the people.”
In August / August killed al-Daesh Mount Sinjar and the surrounding areas, more than five thousand Yezidis, most of them in the process of mass murder, according to the United Nations.
Contacts with militants
Thousands of women and adolescent girls have fallen to the fighters. While he sold Daesh Most of the victims in the slave market, others turned into a puppet of fighters, practiced on them various forms of sexual slavery.
The Andrew White, a pastor of one of the largest churches in Baghdad, linking the Jewish businessman with negotiators, and helped him to penetrate the tribal networks in Iraq.
Says White “Maman brother for us. Was the first person who comes to offer his help.”
Rabbi Saadia Montreal Haddad called on Western countries to a deep military commitment to uprooting Daesh from the Iraqi and Syrian territories, adding, “I want to see organizations and people across the world are doing such Maman initiative.”
Steve Maman began a simple ambition which is to collect half a million dollars, but having raced donations at the expense created to save Aloesidat However Daesh, now seeks to collect five million dollars.
And it confirms that Daesh will release some of the victims in exchange for ransoms ranging from a thousand and three thousand dollars.
There are about 2700 Christian woman and Yezidi in the grip of militants. Says Maman “If we can save half of whom we will be lucky.”