http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/yazidi-women-captive_n_5662805.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D513107 Consider that the terrorists here also have plans to conquer Europe, starting with the Vatican and Rome, and to utterly destroy the USA and Canada, and it stops being a "local issue" and begins to look like a worldwide disaster in the making. Speaking as a woman, I have great reason to dread such things -- life for women under Islamist rule is Hell on Earth. But men would fare little better, And as for our children -- you do NOT want to know.