Nobel Peace Prize. Yazidi, Congo Genocide. Islamist Sexual Slavery

     Will the Nobel peace prize given to Nadia Murad and Dr. Dennis Mukwege for raising awareness about sexual violence change anything?
     Millions have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Many have been hacked to death. Gang rapes, rapes of infants and children, have been committed by warring soldiers. The atrocities have not stopped. The world has been silent throughout it all. (The world focuses on Israel and little else, and ignores the mass atrocities and horrific human right abuses that occur throughout the world, including by many of Israel's accusers.) There is little to no outcry about the ongoing atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or in places like Syria and Yemen.
     The second largest rainforest, most of which is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is no less important than the Amazon rainforest. Unlike the Amazon, great apes live in the Congo rainforest. The Congo rainforest is being destroyed, including by mining and logging. Wildlife, including great apes, are hunted and eaten. This rain forest is a lung of the planet. Its rich biodiversity, which holds plants that very well may be the cure for many human diseases, will soon be lost forever.
      Few care or pay attention to the human and environmental catastrophic in the Congo region. Will the Nobel Peace prize awaken eyes to the unfolding tragedy of the Congo? The environmental destruction? The mass rapes? The mass murders? The ongoing atrocities?
         
      Thousands of Yazidi women and girls are still held captive as sex slaves to brutal Islamists, even though ISIS has lost most of its territory. Many ISIS members are now blended into civilian populations. Many Yazidi women and child captives have yet to be freed.
      Many Islamists and jihadists believe that sexual slavery of non Muslims is acceptable, and that sex slaves are their rightful reward as the booty of war. It is not enough for the west to say it opposes sexual violence. Does the west have the moral courage to stand up to demented religious beliefs that allow for persecution, slavery, rape and murder of certain so called infidels?
      Yazidis practice a religion far older than Islam. The poisoned religious beliefs that drew Muslims from all over the world to Syria and Iraq to fight for ISIS and to attack Yazidis and others considered infidels are still widespread in the Islamic world. Yazidi menfolk and older women were murdered. Yazidi young women and children were taken as sex slaves. Yazidi boys were taken to be used as brainwashed jihadi child soldiers. Most of these children and women have not returned home.
       The sickening hatred for religious minorities by many in the Islamic world, especially for Jews, is alive and well and unchallenged, and waiting for the next opportunity to kill and enslave.