Sidney's Picks: ISIS Invents Theology of Rape | Hillman Foundation

Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: ISIS Invents Theology of Rape

Photo credit: 

Territory controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, as of October, 2014. Karl-Ludwig Poggemann, VICE, Creative Commons. 

  • ISIS invents a theology of rape to justify sexually assaulting its prisoners. 
     
  • Rukmini Callimachi, the reporter who broke the news of ISIS’s theology of rape, explains how she reported the story. 
     
  • The federal government asserts that it’s unconstitutional to ban the homeless from sleeping outdoors.
     
  • Remembering Sandra Bland.
     
  • Bumble Bee Foods to pay a $6 million fine for accidentally cooking a worker to death.