Saving the World, One Kidnapped, Enslaved Yazidi or Christian Girl At a Time

A Montreal Jew has taken it upon himself to rescue these young women:

A Montreal businessman has spearheaded the release of what he says are 128 Yazidi and Christian girls and young women from sexual slavery at the hands of Islamic State militants, with a project in motion to save many more. 

Steve Maman, already being dubbed the “Jewish Schindler” of Iraqi minorities by news outlets, is reported to have raised more than $200,000 — $50,000 over one recent weekend alone — to pay for the release of the captives during the past year. Ten more are expected to be liberated in the coming days.  

As the world watched in horror while the Islamic State extremist group swept through northern Iraq last summer, capturing and executing thousands of members of the country’s minorities, Maman said he felt compelled to act. 

“It’s a level of barbarism which was on another level of persecution,” the 42-year-old father of six said. 

“The Talmud teaches us, whoever saves one life saves the world entire” — an aphorism quoted famously by Liam Neeson in the 1993 Oscar winner Schindler’s List...

The Koran teaches the aphorism, too. Unfortunately and for obvious reasons, those citing it usually omit its second half.