The Wattan.tv headline is: “Emirati Mansouri family disowns their daughter Mariam for participating in the United States bombing of Syrian targets.” “Mariam Al Mansouri: Female Pilot Disowned By Family For Bombing ISIS Terrorists In Syria,” Inquisitr, September 25, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Major Mariam Al Mansouri became the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first female pilot on the ISIS terrorist group terrorist group following the announcement that the United States would be leading a coalition of nations to use airstrikes against the Islamic State. While the world celebrates her success, the war has come home for Mansouri and reports are claiming the female fight pilot’s family has officially disowned her.
In a related report by The Inquisitr, the 35-year-old Major Mariam Al Mansouri was among three other women that were part of the attack on ISIS. She graduated in January of 2008 and she said that being a military almost entirely dominated by men was a dream she’s held for years.“It was my aspiration. Ever since I finished high school, I wanted to learn flying because it was something that I liked in the first place. Being in the air force is a responsibility. I feel proud, especially that I am part of the first batch. And that encourages me to continue in this field. As a pilot, you have to study all the time, even after graduation. You have to continue training because the more hours you fly the more experience you accumulate.”
Mansouri led three other UAE F-16 pilots in the first airstrike and it’s said that when the “U.S. tanker pilots called in for air refueling and asked for the UAE mission and when they heard a female voice on the other side they paused for 20 seconds.” They then proceeded to drop bombs this week in coordinated attacks against Islamic State strongholds near Raqqa, Aleppo and Idlib.
Unfortunately, an Arabic language news site called Wattan.TV is reporting that Mariam Al Mansouri’s family has disowned her for these actions. Please keep in mind this is a Google translation and is extremely rough. The Inquisitr did attempt to clean up the translation, but it’s possible there were translation errors introduced in the process.
“The Mansouri family in the UAE announced Wednesday that they had Nbaraha [untranslated] of her daughter Mary because of her participation in the international coalition led by the United States to strike at civilian targets inside Syrian territory. The family also stressed their support for the Syrian revolution. The Mansouri family said in a statement published by news sites Arabic…. ‘We are the sons of the family of al-Mansuri in the United Arab Emirates announce to fill the innocence [translation error?] of the so-called Mariam Al Mansouri. We remind anyone who participates in international aggression on the Syrian people, led by the daughter of the rogue Mariam Al Mansouri, that the the Islamic State in the East and the West has a duty to defend issues of the nation. We exhort the jihad for the sake of Allah and the support of the Syrian Revolution. Blessed, in the face of the descendants of Ibn Alqami.’”
The Mansouri family also called for support for the Syrian revolution, calling for “all factions and battalions operating on the scene Shamiyah to unite and join forces and efforts to a single goal, which is to drop the Assad regime.” The family also appears to have announced support specifically for the ISIS terrorist organization, saying that their family is “honored heroes of the Sunnis in Iraq and the Levant.” The ISIS terrorist group is also known as ISIL, which stands for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, although it’s possible this similarity to the ISIS name may be a Google translation error.
GP says
That is because moderate muslims are tolerant, but only tolerant of the Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, etc. The moderate muslims don’t actively participate in the atrocities, instead they just smile and nod.
Anon says
How true, smile and nod, and sometimes even celebrate.
Julian says
I honestly cannot see what good trying to bomb ISIS will do. Lots of civilians will be killed and ISIS may even use human shields like Hamas are doing to weaken the resolve of the West if we engage in this war. There exists simply no long-term strategy for dealing with ISIS from our Western leaders and whenever there isn’t a long-term strategy we always make things much worse (e.g. Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc). As much as ISIS is evil, bombing simply isn’t going to work and will kill many thousands of innocent civilians. The UKIP leader Nigel Farage of Great Britain got the issue spot on in this video.
Julian says
Friend, I can understand why enmity towards Islam would lead you to try to justify statements like yours, but that is morally wrong. It is always wrong to directly kill innocent human beings. I hate Islam, but every muslim could become a Nabeel Qureshi, a Mosub Yousef or an Ilyas Khan (all well-known converts to Christianity) and that’s what we should keep in mind. It is correct that we must defend ourselves against those that want to destroy us, but to directly implicate the innocent, particularly when the action is so hit-and-miss (i.e. bombing), that this will 9 times out of 10 be almost as objectionable as the barbarity that we are fighting against.
Julian says
The question that naturally arises is how many is too many to die? 500,000 were killed the last time the West got involved with Iraq and the situation is now much worse. We all want ISIS destroyed but bombing Iraq simply will not do this. You need to have boots on the ground as well, but nobody wants to have boots on the ground because of the stigma from the Iraq war. Our governments have no long-term strategy for dealing with ISIS, so as bad as it is now, things may still get worse even if we go plowing into yet another foreign war where we have absolutely no idea how to reach the end goal.
Bff H says
If you destroy ISxx fuel supply all those modern weapon platforms will collect dust and they’ll be fighting tooth and nail over camels and donkeys. The electrical grid will die. How are they going to resupply and feed their Lions? Camel caravans? They’ll soon enough regress to primitive squatters barking at the moon.
Kepha says
Julian, I basically agree with you. I cannot join any clamor for war against everyone form Mauretania to Mindanao and the Kama to the Comoros, either.
However, our word “crisis” is nothing but Greek for “judgment”. I pray that I am wrong, but I wonder if this looming conflict between a West led by a coalition of arrogantly post-Christian social democrats and enablers of sexual perversion on the one hand and the Islamic world may not be a moment in which God is entering into judgment with us–both West and Islam. Could it be that the flight of ME Christians out of the area–perhaps ultimately to fall under US refugee admissions–may be God’s removal of his own from danger while a dreadful conflict escalates?
I served in the US Department of State from 1989-95, and saw the hubris, blindness, and wishful thinking that dominated official America’s approach to Islamic ferment–the desperate wish that the Islamic world would spew up thousands of Harry Emerson Fosdicks to guide it away from its “fundamentalism” (if you haven’t heard of Harry Emerson Fosdick, the trite, shallow, theological nemesis of American Christian fundamentalism in the 1930’s, I assure you he’s justly forgettable). Perhaps there is something like a Greek tragedy brewing in America’s relations with the Islamic world between 1979 and the present.
I am not playing prophet, for I believe that nobody can add more to the Word of God after John penned those last verses of the Apocalypse. I pray that God may be merciful and spare this unhappy world for repentance unto life. But I do so fully aware of what I am taught about the rise and fall of nations in biblical prophecy, and that God has the right to tell me “no”.
Mirren10 says
”It is correct that we must defend ourselves against those that want to destroy us, but to directly implicate the innocent, particularly when the action is so hit-and-miss (i.e. bombing), that this will 9 times out of 10 be almost as objectionable as the barbarity that we are fighting against.”
According to your reasoning, it was ‘wrong’, and ‘objectionable’ to bomb Berlin, Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
If we hadn’t, we would have lost WW11.
If we refuse to accept that islam is at war with the West, and **all** non-mohammedans, and refuse to act as we did in WW11, we will *lose*.
TH says
Obama is hoping to get some votes from it in the November elections y giving the impression that he is doing something against his former jihadi friends. With the other hand he is giving arms to the Free Syrian Army which only last year massacred Christians in Syria. He did the same with what is now ISIS a year or two ago. He hasn’t a clue.
SallyA says
@ TH: Spot on. Exactly. Also by billions$ of expenditures over years for ultimately futile military bombings and advisors in ME v. IS and other Salafi Muslims, Obama can further weaken the U.S. economy and attempt to punish the U.S. for his flawed perception of U.S. sins of colonialism against Africa, ME and the rest of the third world beneath which Obama hopes to relegate the U.S. as a subservient state. He’s one sick puppy of a president. He’s also very skilled at covering up how evilly sick, dishonest and creepy he really is. Obama makes Slick Willy looks like an amateur.
SallyA says
P.S. Exactly and spot on as to what he’s doing (and not), however I think in contrast that Obama is not clueless but knows exactly what he’s doing.
Christine Godinet says
I like this guy. He has more sense than all the other politicians put together, and the Muslims would hate it if he got into government.
If I lived in the UK, I would certainly vote for him.
Oliver says
To whom are you referring?
gravenimage says
Michael is a notorious agent provocateur.
He is constantly ranting about killing “blasphemers”—as though this is something the civilized West does.
Fred says
If you want to join the ground fight the boat leaves tomorrow.
Beagle says
I am souring on Obama’s Phoney War as well. Nothing good comes from politically micromanaged, polling based warfare.
Plan B: build no exit highways from Raqqa Province Syria to the Saudi and Iranian borders. They all deserve each other.
Kepha says
I never supported Obama. I am ashamed of an American media and electorate that can elevate such a mix of malevolent wrecker and nonentity to the most powerful public office on the planet.
As for his Syrian policies, I groan that my government is so utterly cheese-headed (Swiss or Jarlsberg–full of holes) that it wants to burn my money arming “moderate” Syrian rebels (the selfsame crew that sold Foley to ISIS for beheading). I tore my hair over his early talking loudly and carrying no stick, and having to be extricated from his own rhetoric by the likes of Volodya Putin.
But, if God is merciful to my straying, wrong-headed, arrogant country (and He has every right to have a contrary disposition), perhaps this is a case in which a Democratic Party under the leadership of people who cut their political teeth condemning their own country’s military efforts while lionizing its enemies is being forced to recognize that perhaps there are people out there whom not even FDR’s charm and JFK’s glamor can win.
Still, I see the making of a quagmire coming; brought about by politicians believing that symbolic acts are somehow a substitute for serious fighting and the sacrifice it entails. And I grown because both of my sons are of military age–and I don’t want my country to invest them in a war in which it is clueless to who the enemy is or what it is truly trying to accomplish.
Mirren10 says
”Could it be that the flight of ME Christians out of the area–perhaps ultimately to fall under US refugee admissions–may be God’s removal of his own from danger while a dreadful conflict escalates?”
What a pity God didn’t ”remove his own” before so many of them were raped and murdered by mohammedans.
What a pity God didn’t ”remove his own” Jews, before six million of them were slaughtered by the Nazis.
God, by your reasoning, seems to be very picky …
Oliver says
If there is NO exit, the fighters will fight to the death.
The preferred way (in my view) block all but one exit- and that be the smallest/narrowest, so that they will kill themselves and each other to get out– that is, those not killed with the other exits blocked.
mariam rove says
She is marked for life. M
Don McKellar says
I doubt she’ll have long to live when she ventures out into public without fully covering up. Even then, the black tenticles of Islam reach far, and she may not even be able to get away with that now that she’s so famous.
umbra says
While these women are still flying strike missions over isis land, at least they get to cleanse the world of some misogynist islamic garbage.
SallyA says
@umbra – Yay, and yes!
cassandra says
Leave that hell-hole, come to Israel and fly for the IAF!!
SallyA says
@cassandra – also yay and yes!
Walter Sieruk says
Maybe this young women’s family disowned her because Islam teaches the Muslims are not to fight other Muslims. Even if those Muslims are the cruel ,vicious and murderous thugs who compose ISIS. Then Obama has the gall to say that the violent and deadly terrorists of ISIS aren’t real Muslims. Obama is really full of lies and falsehoods. He needs to call the characters of ISIS what they actually are . Which are Muslims
Bamaguje says
Given ISIS’ misogynistic brutality, I don’t think its a good idea to deploy Major Mariam Al-Mansouri against them.
If her aircraft is shot down… no prizes for guessing what ISIS would do to her.
TH says
The mysogenism is not only ISIS¨s. It is pure islam.
SallyA says
@Bamaguje – If she can bomb Muslim tyrants from the air, pretty good odds she’d hurt them more on the ground than they would her. She’s a serious hero. I applaud her bravery and her willingness to do what’s right (and hard to do) even if her retrograde family disowns her. What’s up with wanting to take that away from her as if she’s some shrinking violet when she’s a f-ing fighter pilot? Girls all over the world have a bigger picture of what’s possible because of her. Major Mariam Al Mansouri rocks!!!!!
somehistory says
When they told this on the news last night, it was predictable what would come next. Probably a fatwa has already been issued.
Olier says
Perhaps her family was in the process of disowning her for other reasons, but this gives them “cover” to appear as moderate.
Other reasons could include: wanting to be in a male dominated society ( the military)? (If she is not married, and 35–is she still a virgin? If not, that is one reason).
Another–she appears to show her face (albeit, through a helmet) not a veil, and is not wearing a 50 gallon garbage bag over her entire body. (Immodestly dressed).
Probably a few other reasons-studying flight manuals rather then the Koran; not praying 5 times daily (or, ti that only a man’s obligation?)
etc.
Twostellas says
I’m sure it’s no big loss to her.
TJFreedomjihad says
As a knowing of evil’s gang, and a free American Judeo Christian Constitutional Conservative Patriot, I only pray Mariam has the intelligence of a pilot to sever forever her family, now that her former family has made their move. As a professional pilot, former, I know the general intelligence and discipline needed to be a successful pilot, and it sometimes translates, carries over, into civil life.
If she doesn’t realize her family is almost a certainty to commit a heinous act of honor killing against her, more than 99% certainty, and if not them others, her wisest actions are to defect to the west, forthwith for asylum. Her choice is simple–great life or miserable death, or worse. There is worse. With one proviso, no more mohammadanism, become a warrior apostate hero, with no G-d, or a true G-d of her choice. Determine, that later, when free to think free.
Of course this subsumes UAE doesn’t put so little fuel in the fighters as the NK does, so their pilots can’t fly to freedom.
Torgy says
She’s my hero!
SallyA says
@ Torgy – Yay and yes!
Rob says
I wonder if these new BFFs bombing ISIL are dropping leaflets, sending texts and firing warning shots to alert those on the ground?
Israel did these things in Gaza, but was still accused of war crimes.
Surely the coalition attacking ISIL should do a lot more than Israel to warn them.
Some suggestions:
Cut lunches so ISIL won’t go hungry while they are forced away from their positions.
Green alternatives to the fossil fuels that won’t be made in their refineries.
Portable media centres so they can film and upload atrocities on the run.
I’m sure you have more…
Anon says
“Female Pilot Disowned By Family For Bombing ISIS Terrorists In Syria…”
How “moderate” of them.
Anon says
By the way, if you’re wondering just how “tiny” the problem is, globally, even the we-like-islam Pew Research Center states that about 60% average across muslim majority countries want sharia law to always apply and also want the death penalty for “leaving the faith”. 1.6 billion times 0.60 = 960 million. Do the math.
Lawrence says
Am I the only one who is amazed that the UAE has women in combat fighter-bomber pilot roles!!? How come everybody seems to miss that huge point. I mean if Western nations did this (do we?), this would be big news. But the misogynist Persian Gulf state has women in major combat roles, as pilots of fighter jets? WTF??! I mean to me that’s the big story, I’m amazed.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s a good idea, even if the women are as capable as the men in their fighter combat roles. If they get shot down and taken captive, as women, in the hands of ISIS/ISIL or any other enemy really, they face harsher treatment and rape.
Mirren10 says
‘Am I the only one who is amazed that the UAE has women in combat fighter-bomber pilot roles!!? How come everybody seems to miss that huge point. I mean if Western nations did this (do we?), this would be big news.”
We do. I don’t know about America ! 🙂
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/top-girls–the-women-patrolling-the-sky-for-the-raf-6385146.html
gravenimage says
Lawrence, are you joking? For one thing, Mansour is the UAE’s *first* fighter pilot.
And then the US, Britain, Canada, and Israel all have female fighter pilots—as does most of Western Europe.
As to your other issue, given that the Islamic State has been torturing and beheading—and likely anally raping—male Iraqi and Syrian soldiers they have caught, I’m not sure there’s anything much worse they can do to women.
It’s not as though the thoroughly Islamic Islamic State is adhering to the Geneva Convention with *any* of their captives.
fair_dinkum says
i hope none of the pilots, but especially the female ones, ever find they have to eject over IS held territory.
theyre backwards people, held there by the goatherder superstitions they practice.
southeuropean says
I would marry this hero pilot and Bashar al Asad would be my godfather
killer khan says
go to hell u beach pilot….in saudi arab isis will come soon….to kill bloody oldest king
Jay Boo says
Islam is dying
The Islamic State is demoralized and trying to hide it with videos of schoolyard children to entice jihad pedophiles to join its ranks.
Look closely at the faces of jihad bundled up in their sweaty overcoats pointing fingers up in the air on the other thread.
Islam is dying from its own stink.
katarzyna says
its true. the world fell head over heels in love with her. im joining in.
guardian has an article about fox news and its sexism(“the boobs on the ground” joke).the first and most popular comment of the liberal/totalitarian voices says: “maybe she could do us all a favour and fly over to bomb Fox News out of existence”.
and it comes from eraizer.
Oliver says
Personally, i think it would be better, rather THEN BOMBING Fox, TO BOMB THE N. Y. Times ( with its rewriting of Gaza); The Guardian ( which blames Israel for everything, and as someone else-on another JW post said, he is surprised Israel has not been blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs. And let us not forget CNN- The Creative News Network–if it is not news, they will make it news.
Those, in my view, worthy targets, along with ISIS; Al Queida; Hamas and Hezbollah. (And Iranian soldiers and morality police; as well as their nuclear people and project/s).
My opinions.
trurthify says
i don’t know who is runing this so called jihad post , but what i can tell is this fake news about UAE female pilot is a utter bullshit. if its ISIS i have a message for you” grow up” we youth of islam are way more intelligent than you think. i mean seriously is that the best you guys can do….cant stop laughing at your ignorant and stupid minds
Oliver says
If you youth of Islam are in the west or Israel, GO BACK TO YOUR SHIT HOLES, and leave humans alone.
Go back to the Sunnis killing Shiites; the Shiites then retaliating by killing Sunnis; then Sunnis killing the Shiites, etc.
AND KEEP IT UP. KEEP KILLING OTHER MUSLIMS WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU.
Animals, all.