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Tom Joad 10-13-2014 11:31 AM

Women Fight ISIS and Sexism in Kurdish Regions
 
"Girls with Guns". You right wingers should appreciate this.:)

http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/201...ype=blogs&_r=0


Quote:

Women have been fighting in Kurdish paramilitary outfits, known as the pesh merga, for years, according to Ahmad Khalil and Karen Leigh of Syria Deeply. “Kurdish women, regarded as some of the most liberal in the region, have a decades-long history of fighting,” they write. “Many have fought with the P.K.K., an internationally recognized terror organization that works with the Y.P.G., in southern Turkey.”

Now many have taken up arms against the encroaching Islamic State. “About 30 percent of the People’s Protection Units (Y.P.G.) — the armed wing of the P.Y.D. — is now female,” Syria Deeply reports.
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donquixote99 10-13-2014 11:46 AM

I think the Kurds could recruit more women warriors form the west than ISIS can recruit radical Islamists! This could be the answer!

Rajoo 10-13-2014 12:15 PM

No head scarves? That will really piss the ISIS off.

donquixote99 10-13-2014 03:13 PM

The above are publicity shots, of course. Attractive models, clean clothes, wearing make-up....

piece-itpete 10-14-2014 09:47 AM

I like this, thanks Tom. Give'em hell girls!

Pete

Rajoo 10-14-2014 10:05 AM

Ours go shopping for groceries instead. :)


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merrylander 10-15-2014 08:25 AM

Turkey will not aid the Kurds in Syria as they want the Kurds to go the way of the Armenians. And PKK is not a terrorist group, simply people trying to regain their homeland of Kurdistan.


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