Posted on 10/17/2014 8:24:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
More than 10,000 women are fighting among peshmerga forces in northern Syria, about half the overall number, she says, though other reports suggest women make up around one-third of the total.
Regardless, women fighters make up a critical force in the battle to stave off the macabre IS jihadists bent on establishing a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and massacring anyone who gets in the way of that.
For the women fighters, the emergence of IS, which sees the women in society through a primitive viewpoint, is anathema. Syrian Kurdish women are revolutionary women. Daish [IS] hate women, so we hate them just as much, Ahin says.
The advance of IS jihadists into Syrian territory in July led to the adoption of a law by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the political wing of the womens protection units, to conscript 18- to 30-year-olds for six months. Women were precluded, but continue to fight as volunteers.
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Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!!
Guess they don’t worry too much about women in combat and such.
Hahahahahahahahahahha, best laugh I've had tonight, thanks. ;-)
Wrong thread old chap.
God Bless Them.
Kickin’ ass, takin’ names.
It appears that the ISIS in their murderous rampage may have created an opponent who has nothing left to lose by standing firm and fighting them tooth and nail.
Given the choice of beheading or being turned into rape slaves, or sold in to marriage with some jerkwad, the women have taken an alternative. A Rifle.
Yes they have! Pretty amazing for that part of the world.
I pray the Kurds continue to be the “good guys.”
The specific aversion ISIS terrorists have to being killed by women makes this even better. God bless the Kurds.
They realize women have a right to defend themselves.
You go girls!
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