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Yazidi Women Leave Behind Lives, Family to Fight ISIS
Al Arabiya ^ | Thursday, 5 May 2016 | Ahmed Jadallah with Emily Wither

Posted on 05/05/2016 7:57:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway

When ISIS swept into the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants attacking women and girls from their community.

“They took eight of my neighbors and I saw they were killing the children,” Asema Dahir told Reuters last month at a checkpoint near a front line north of Mosul.

Dressed in military fatigues, the 21-year-old is now part of an all-female unit in the Kurdish peshmerga forces, which have played an important role in pushing back ISIS in northern Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; islam; islamicstate; koranimals; muslims; peshmerga; yazidi; yazidiwomen

1 posted on 05/05/2016 7:57:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Are these the women who were left behind by the ragmen who invaded Germany?


2 posted on 05/05/2016 8:02:01 PM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: nickcarraway
““They took eight of my neighbors and I saw they were killing the children,” Asema Dahir told Reuters last month at a checkpoint near a front line north of Mosul.”

This is happening on our watch. Killing children! In a country that we spent American lives to free it from dictatorship. Why did Americans die there? So that this could happen?

3 posted on 05/05/2016 8:04:16 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: nickcarraway

Yazidi and Christians were not allowed to own arms under the Iraqi government. That is why they had no militia and could not defend themselves against ISIS.

Muslims around the world agree - infidels must be totally disarmed.


4 posted on 05/05/2016 8:11:13 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

The Pope says Muslims are his “brothers” while his “brothers” behead children.


5 posted on 05/05/2016 8:13:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

I have never been so ashamed of my country and its president. Could have nipped ISIS in the bud, now does 1.2 sorties a day while Russia, which is still brutally dangerous, had to step in and save the day and now women fight while the pres plays golf and while children get slaughtered.

This is more embarrassing than knowing nickcarraway


6 posted on 05/05/2016 8:20:18 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: BenLurkin

“The Pope says Muslims are his “brothers” while his “brothers” behead children.”

Where does the line get drawn when turning the other cheek?


7 posted on 05/05/2016 8:25:10 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

David killed predators to protect his flock.

I guess I kinda see the Pope’s job as being very similar when it comes to protecting his flock.


8 posted on 05/05/2016 8:27:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

What kind of afterlife does a Muslim man have if he’s killed by a woman?


9 posted on 05/05/2016 8:34:20 PM PDT by MulberryDraw
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Old Testament vs New Testament. That said, I don’t disagree at all with your viewpoint.


10 posted on 05/05/2016 8:34:31 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: MulberryDraw

He can’t go to heaven if killed by a woman. That’s why ISIS is terrified of female soldiers. Elsewhere I have called Kurdish women with guns the weakness of ISIS.


11 posted on 05/05/2016 8:48:25 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Gasshog

“Are these the women who were left behind by the ragmen who invaded Germany?”

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From the article:

“I saw them raping my Kurdish sisters and I couldn’t accept this injustice,” Nauzad said.

Her husband wanted to pay human smugglers to take them to Europe along with more than a million others fleeing conflict in the region, but she insisted on going home to fight the Islamists.

“I put my personal life aside, and I came to defend my Kurdish sisters and mothers and stand against this enemy,” she said. She has lost contact with her husband since he arrived in Germany.


12 posted on 05/05/2016 8:49:52 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (That giant flushing sound is the New Whirled Order, going down the tubes.)
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To: Berosus
He can’t go to heaven if killed by a woman. That’s why ISIS is terrified of female soldiers. Elsewhere I have called Kurdish women with guns the weakness of ISIS.

What happens if he gets killed by a transgender?

13 posted on 05/05/2016 9:39:29 PM PDT by Samwell Tarly (America is becoming "Harrison Bergeron" had it been envisioned by Ayn Rand)
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To: MulberryDraw

afterlife?

Not what they are told it is.


14 posted on 05/05/2016 9:57:19 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: nickcarraway

The bravery of these ladies never ceases to amaze me.


15 posted on 05/05/2016 10:18:59 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: nickcarraway

A Jihadi killed by a woman gets no paradise, no virgins.


16 posted on 05/06/2016 7:23:09 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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