New Delhi: The most shocking act of organ harvesting could become IS' revenue stream and fetch the militant outfit a whopping $2million annually.
The dreaded Islamic State has lately turned its attention to human organ trafficking to generate funds for helping its propaganda to spread terror across the Middle East.
According to the reports, Islamic State is hiring foreign doctors and introducing them to the widespread organ trafficking system from a hospital in the captured city of Mosul, northern Iraq. The move is already generating huge money for ISIS.
Now, the jihadist group is spreading its organ trafficking business out of Syria and Iraq into neighbouring countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Moreover, it is also engaging criminal gangs sell them to buyers across the globe.
Reports claim that the business is growing at such a rapid pace that it could help the IS set up a special organ-smuggling division, which solely works to sell organs like human hearts, livers and kidneys in the international black market.
A Reuters report claimed last week that the Islamic State's Research and Fatwa Committee has authorized the harvesting of human organs as a legal operation.
"The apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with impunity," says the document, which is in the form of a fatwa, or religious ruling, from the Islamic State's Research and Fatwa Committee.
