Women in vanguard of Kurdish battle against IS and Syrian regime

IrishTimes ^ | Sat, Oct 18, 2014

[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 women’s protection units, to conscript 18- to 30-year-olds for six months. Women were precluded, but continue to fight as volunteers.

[2harddrive]

Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!!

[going hot]

Guess they don’t worry too much about women in combat and such.

[doc1019]

Hey Obama, be a MAN

Hahahahahahahahahahha, best laugh I've had tonight, thanks. ;-)

[BenLurkin]

Wrong thread old chap.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

ISIS Militants Fear Being Killed by Woman and Losing 72 Virgins for Martyrdom

[BenLurkin]

[left that other site]

God Bless Them.

[going hot]

Kickin’ ass, takin’ names.

[Moorings]

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.

[Enterprise]

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.

[berdie]

Yes they have! Pretty amazing for that part of the world.

I pray the Kurds continue to be the “good guys.”

[ScottinVA]

The specific aversion ISIS terrorists have to being killed by women makes this even better. God bless the Kurds.

[ScottinVA]

[R. Scott]

They realize women have a right to defend themselves.

[Jimmy Valentine]

You go girls!