The Importance of Mirrors | The Last Girl by Nadia Murad

Book Title:
"The Last Girl"
Author:
Nadia Murad

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Before her captivity, Nadia would mention that when she got any kind of make-up / appearance-enhancing cosmetics, she would relish & take joy in its transformative potential. It would, in her eyes, change her into a completely different woman, which she associated tremendous positives with.

Once taken into captivity as a sabiyya, however, this would massively change...

Instead, now seeing herself as nothing more than "a prize for a terrorist" no matter how much lipstick she wore, or whatever pretty dress her captor, Hajji Salman, had picked out for her to wear to entertain his guests, or himself, Nadia details how she felt no different looking in the mirror at this fully made-up & transformed face...

In her eyes, it had now ceased to transform at all. The same "prize for a terrorist" simply stared back at her.

It goes to show how much the meaning of something can change depending on the circumstances. What once was a massive positive boost to self-esteem; a thing that may have put her in the mind of a future wedding day which she would have wanted to look beautiful for, may now be only associated with imprisonment, rape and torture.

Instead of conjuring up images of a lovely Yezidi wedding celebration with her family and love of her life, it may now instead conjure up memories of captors, horrors, pain, suffering, and the loss of said family members in the past massacres.

Think of the victims of the Mohammedan rape gangs of Britain when you think of this; how they will have struggled & will continue to struggle with trust & sexual intimacy as they get older, having been subject to horrors beyond description in this post; those whose abuse has resulted in their inability to have children of their own; those who are no longer here and those who still walk around in fear as their captors roam the same streets as them, their crimes being widely known but not punished appropriately by a two-tier justice system.

Once, walking the streets of their home towns may have presented positive memories as they hung out with and socialised with friends. Now, it's possible that only fear & trauma associated with the crimes against humanity they were put through as children remain.

And like the ISIS invasion of Kocho & the treatment of the Yezidis, all was done deliberately & with knowledge by not just the perpetrators but all levels of government also.

Lasting damage is often unseen.

The response - Justice - must be seen by all.