US should aid religious minorities abroad directly without going through the UN
Ayyoub
Consider the case of  Rita Habib Ayyoub  a 30-year-old Iraqi Christian woman .
 Ayyoub  is one of hundreds  possibly thousands  of Christians and several thousand Yazidis captured in Iraqâs Nineveh province.  She  was forced to become a Muslim and a sex slave. Iraqi lawyers documented 68 Christians still in ISIS captivity in August.
 Ayyoub  told journalists that  she  was taken to a slave market in Mosul and sold  along with three Christian children  to ISIS âemirs.â A local Sunni man bought her and a 14- year old Yazidi girl. âHe raped the both of us over and over again â  she  says.
 Ayyoub  says  she  was later resold in Raqqa to another jihadi who had a Moroccan wife.  Ayyoub  relates  her  horrific ordeal in that family: âI was beaten and tortured by  her  (the jihadiâs wife) every day.  She  would not give up until I was bleeding  from my head  for example. They made me read the Quran and threatened to kill me if I did not convert to Islam.â
 Ayyoub  was rescued by Syrian Democratic Forces in November and is now being aided in Syria by a small womenâs group of Assyrians (a traditionally Christian ethnicity) â  not by the U.N.
Assyrian Swedish journalist Nuro Kino  who is helping Ayyoub   tells me that  she  does not know where to go next.  Ayyoubâs  hometown of Qaraqosh   Iraqâs  largest Christian city  stands mostly empty.
Conceivably   Ayyoub  could end up in the Erbil Catholic Chaldean Archdioceseâs displacement center  which shelters most displaced Iraqi Christians and has not had U.N. support.
But while  Ayyoub  may not be able to access U.N. aid  her ISIS tormentors can  thanks in part to generous U.S.-taxpayer-supported U.N. âstabilizationâ aid.
Though  Ayyoubâs enslaver  is likely dead   his  radicalized Moroccan wife might also qualify for U.N. resettlement help in Telkayf. That Nineveh town was Christian until the U.N. decided to move in the families of ISIS jihadis killed in battle and  thus  effectively bar its Christiansâ return.
Consider the case of  [TGT]  .
  [TGT] is one of hundreds  possibly thousands  of Christians and several thousand Yazidis captured in Iraqâs Nineveh province.  She  was forced to become a Muslim and a sex slave. Iraqi lawyers documented 68 Christians still in ISIS captivity in August.
  [TGT] told journalists that   [TGT]   was taken to a slave market in Mosul and sold  along with three Christian children  to ISIS âemirs.â A local Sunni man bought her and a 14- year old Yazidi girl. âHe raped the both of us over and over again â  she  says.
  [TGT] says  she  was later resold in Raqqa to another jihadi who had a Moroccan wife.   [TGT] relates  her  horrific ordeal in that family: âI was beaten and tortured by  her  (the jihadiâs wife) every day.  She  would not give up until I was bleeding  from my head  for example. They made me read the Quran and threatened to kill me if I did not convert to  [TGT] 
was rescued by Syrian Democratic Forces in November and is now being aided in Syria by a small womenâs group of Assyrians (a traditionally Christian ethnicity) â  not by the U.N.
Assyrian Swedish journalist Nuro Kino  who is helping Ayyoub   tells me that  she  does not know where to go next.  Ayyoubâs  hometown of Qaraqosh   Iraqâs  largest Christian city  stands mostly empty.
Conceivably    [TGT] could end up in the Erbil Catholic Chaldean Archdioceseâs displacement center  which shelters most displaced Iraqi Christians and has not had U.N. support.
But while   [TGT] may not be able to access U.N. aid  her ISIS tormentors can  thanks in part to generous U.S.-taxpayer-supported U.N. âstabilizationâ aid.
Though   [TGT] is likely dead    [TGT]   radicalized Moroccan wife might also qualify for U.N. resettlement help in Telkayf. That Nineveh town was Christian until the U.N. decided to move in the families of ISIS jihadis killed in battle and  thus  effectively bar its Christiansâ return.