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HALEP - Women shut down traffic in the city of Aleppo, Syria to call for the immediate rescue of women and children kidnapped by the Al Nusra group from their neighborhood.

Women shut down traffic on the road between Aleppo and Efrîn yesterday in protest against the group Al Nusra. Al Nusra recently kidnapped women from the Aleppo neighborhood of Şêxmeqsud. Neighborhood women shut down traffic in protest.

"Where in Islam, in what surah of the Qur'an is there a fatwa that permits the kidnapping of women?" asked Roşîn Mûsa, a member of the neighborhood women's commune. "It's clear that these practices have no relationship with Islam. So what these gang members want to do with this practice is to cover us women in a shroud and return us to the days when we were sold in bazaars as slaves.

Roşîn said that in order to build a democratic, free, new Syria, it was necessary to build gender equality. The women called on local and international organizations to do everything necessary to stop the rape and kidnapping perpetrated by these groups.

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