 In mid-October 2014, the UN estimated that 5,000 to 7,000 Yazidi women and children were abducted by ISIL and sold into slavery.In the digital magazine "Dabiq", ISIL claimed religious justification for enslaving Yazidi women whom they consider to be from a heretical sect.ISIL claimed that the Yazidi are idol worshipers and their enslavement is part of the old shariah practice of spoils of war.