Everyone knows that the foes of the Islamic State are all moderates, right? Good thing we have moderates like this on our side, eh? Just not all that close, please! “Kurdish female fighter in suicide attack on Isil amid fighting for key Syria town,” AFP, October 5, 2014 (thanks to Maxwell):
A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) jihadists outside a key Syrian town on Sunday night, a monitoring group said.
The woman, named on social media as Arin Mirkan, reportedly blew herself up at an Isil position east of the border town of Kobane, killing a number of jihadists who have surrounded and are battling to seize it.
It was the first reported instance of a female Kurdish fighter carrying out a suicide bombing against Isil, which has itself often favoured the tactic, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The attack came as Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes battled Isil jihadists for control of the town on the Turkish border on Sunday.
Isil fighters had seized part of the strategic Mishtenur hill overlooking the town of Kobane late on Saturday, a monitor said, but their progress was slowed by new strikes from the coalition of Washington and Arab allies.
A Kobane local official, Idris Nahsen, said Isil fighters were less than a mile from the town, and that air strikes alone were not enough to stop them….
OMG says
So how does it work for women, does she now get rewarded with 72 virgins, LOL ???? What a half baked dumb ass ideology Islam is.
Wtf? says
It also means the jihadis she killed wont go to heaven because they were killed by a woman. I hope they reincarnate as Muslims so they have a crap life again.
John C. Barile says
Sure enough.
flslslpoj says
great!
TH says
Didn´t Mahommed himself die as a result of eataing poisoned mutton served to him by a Jewish woman? It did take some time, but he eventually died. So it goes. He probably invented a revelation to get himself into heave. Of course, it appears that the arabic word for the virgins actually means white raisins.
John C. Barile says
The fighters of the YPG gave their blood to rescue their non-Muslim Yazidi kinsmen. Nothing comical about it.
cassandra says
Exactly.
John C. Barile says
At Mt. Sinjar, also called Mt. Shingal.
citycat says
Presuming she is not a lesbian there is another reason for suicide, which may the real reason behind most Islamic suicides.
Christine (Justina) Erikson says
lesbian? how incredibly ignorant and stupid you are. women have been warriors for thousands of years in many lands and rarely were lesbians. sexual perversion does nothing to make you brave or aggressive. most homosexuals do not fit the fag effeminate male and butch female stereotype, the he man male homosexuals (the ones who do the rapes in prison and often consider themselves straight because they don’t play the female role) and feminine lesbians (doing each other in porn) fly under your radar and very dangerous socially more able to corrupt and deceive.
Kurds are more into their culture than their religions which is why their moslems are not jihadis and their women never wore the veil. A few are Christian.
Frans Groenendijk says
Hear hear.
This post is one of the very very few I don’t like on Jihadwatch.
Many female Kurdish fighters keep one bullet for themselves. They know what they are fighting against!
They know it better than 99,9% of people living in the west.
John C. Barile says
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/syria-19-old-kurdish-woman-fighter-kills-herself-144531438.html#abL4ag
xyz says
I can’t speak for citycat, but the lesbian comments always come from two types: 1. muslim males (the jihad variety) and 2. communists (often the Russian variety)…..
citycat says
Presuming she’s not lesbian there is another reason for Islamic suicide than virgin promise.
yohanan says
“…Arin Mirkan reportedly blew herself up at an Isil position east of the border town of Kobane.” One can learn from her heroic resistance to genocide. In contrast a terrorist suicide bomber often aims at civilians for greater terror effect in populace. The basic differences, distinctions and contexts seem to be clear.
David says
May the spirt of Arin inspire the resistance to Isis! Her heroism has done more for this fight than the hundreds of airstrikes. If we were building a school in my town, I would want it named for her.
Gart says
If she was married, her husband and eternal bliss.
Tim says
She wont meet any virgins. But she does fight and blow herself up for political reasons. The struggle by the Kurds have mainly been political and not religious ideology.
Oliver says
OM,
Muslims consider women less then men, with the number(s) I have seen being 1/4, 1/3 and 1/2 (the value of a man).
Therefore, the woman martyr should get from 18 to 36 STUDS, not necessarily virgin studs, for her pleasure. Of course, would also have to undo the FGM, for her to enjoy the 18, 24 or 36 studs.
cassandra says
Brave. May she rest in peace. I see from photo she now has at least 2 orphans.
John C. Barile says
Right. She became a Kamikaze for her Kurdish nation, for revenge, and out of desperation–a massacre of surviving Kurd fighters is sure to follow–and notfor Islam, not for “Allah and his religion.” Kurdish fighters of the YPG, the People’s Protection Units, are indoctrinated with Marxist-imbued nationalism and with egalitarianism–thus the employment of women fighters.
Tim says
Yes, the Kurds are warring for political rights, not Islam. That being said, they do have Islamic barbarities within their communities. But Kurds are considered kafirs and not Muslims by majority Muslim communities.
Bamaguje says
Such a fine chick… it’s unfortunate she had to waste her life in that manner.
A courageous anti-Jihad heroine.
somehistory says
What a waste of life. Her death won’t make any difference in the long run even though she took some evil with her.
mortimer says
MODERATE suicide bombing is so different from EXTREMIST suicide bombing, isn’t it? Night and day of a difference, say I.
The supreme cleric in Sunni Islam is the GRAND IMAM of Al Azhar University (Cairo). The late Grand Imam Tantawi APPROVED SUICIDE BOMBING to attack kafirs.
Both sides (Kurds and ISIS) consider the other side kafirs…soooooo…
…both sides have NOTHING to do with Islam. Both sides are HERETICS!
John C. Barile says
The Marxists consider the jihadists kaffirs?
Barry of here and there says
yes moderates use softer explosives and soft low trauma shrapnel, don’t ya know
John C. Barile says
Yet, they are secularist, not Islamist.
Anonamustafa says
“the first reported instance of a female Kurdish fighter carrying out a suicide bombing against Isil, which has itself often favoured the tactic”
>implying there were other suicide attacks by Kurds
>implying an ideological, level playing field for Kurds and jihadists.
AFP media scum.
Mark Bernstein says
Yes, she is a moderate because she is fighting for the moderates and fighting against evil, and fighting in desperation to try to help save her people – the Kurds (who, Muslim or non-Muslim), are pro-Western & pro-Israel – from genocide. It’s really not right to sarcastically try to lump her with the Islamists. Instead of that, why not lobby to get these poor people some half-decent weapons and support.
Gail Griffin says
Braver than Americans at this point. Braver than the Turks. Men should be ashamed.
JIMJFOX says
German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced the decision on Aug. 31 in Berlin.
The intended weapons and ammunition will include up to 30 Milan type anti-tank weapons with 500 missiles; G3 and G36 assault rifles with 6 million rounds; 40 machine guns with 1 million rounds; 8,000 pistols with 1 million rounds; 200 light bazookas with 2,500 rounds; 10,000 hand grenades; 40 heavy bazookas with 1,000 illumination rounds; and 100 signal pistols with 4,000 rounds, according to the Defense Ministry webs
Ciccio says
She may be moderate, Christian , Muslim or Yazidi and without knowing her history it is impossible to judge her motives. Whatever tribe or religion she may have belonged to, all in the region have one thing in common. They are a extremely patriarchal and consider a woman’s chastity to be her paramount virtue. With the mass rapes instigated and carried out by ISIL, any woman however innocent is considered damaged goods if she is so unfortunate as to be raped. For such women, of whatever religious persuasion, suicide bombing may be the ultimate payback.
gabs says
Hang on a minute, we call her a suicide bomber but she gave her life to save her people. she did not attack other fighters cause she wants to take over, i beleive this is purely in defence of her nephews and nieces, sisters and brothers. Im sure there are lots of examples in war where a western soldier (christian) killed himself along with his enemies to save his comrades. I dont think this situation is the same at all.
Will says
Exactly: her aim was freedom NOT domination.
LM says
Actually it’s been reported that she was outgunned and took the self detonation, shall we say as a last resort. Kurds, especially the women, have a policy of not being taken alive. They actually carry one bullet to do the deed. But there have been other cases where female Kurdish soldiers have blown themselves up to avoid being held prisoner by ISIS. I don’t think this is the first case, just the first one we’re paying attention to. Overall, Kurds are pretty moderate. i don’t know of any that have waged Jihad against the West.
Peter B says
“Kurds, especially the women, have a policy of not being taken alive”
Sounds like a very good policy for women fighting against an enemy that flogs women for presuming to do “men’s work.” Given the choice of death while killing the enemy or a being taken captive almost certainly to be tortured and raped then executed…
Wolfgang says
Here is a YT link……its pretty straight forward, Kurdish women fighters carry a 7.62×39 round with a painted white tip as the last round in the bandoleer they carry, they carry it because if they are taken prisoner in a firefight, they use it to kill themselves, this girl did the same, used a grenade, they know the price, they would die very slowly and painfully in the hands of ISIS cavemen. Look online and you will see how ISIS treat Kurdish women they capture, they mass rape them, then cut their limbs off piece by piece, they don’t die quickly or easily, what this girl did was both brave and she did not have a choice.
Wolfgang says
all you brainless idiots who say the Kurdish women can’t do this……go do some research before mouthing off inane comments, try to actually read why Kurdish women fighters take their own lives, I have lived with Kurds, they have honor and will die for their country and and to save others, men and women are treated equally in Kurdistan. I haven’t met any Kurds who don’t value honor and self sacfrifice.
Jen says
I believe the girl featured in that video who is talking to the journalist is dead now. This news story said that she shot herself. Very sad.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/05/Kurdish-female-fighter-killed-herself-to-avoid-being-ISIS-hostage.html
Wolfgang says
@SAKOVKT
My friend I am not picking on you particularly, there are other idiots on JW who think this young girl was just another suicide bomber, if you do a casual YT search, you can several clips of the Kurdish women training as fighters, in several they all point to the one last round they carry that is painted with a white tip, ( easy to see obviously ), its held as a single round on their battle bra, they keep this as a reminder of what will happen if they fall into the hands of ISIS , FSA, etc, Kurds I know all say the same thing, that they will die of their own accord and not let ISIS capture them, sure some are caught and they of course are killed anyway and some Kurds DO fight with ISIS ( about 400 last count ) but out of 53 million kurds its such a low number, its almost not worth mentioning, there are far more British and western fighters than kurds in ISIS, the Kurds are a proud race of people, they have very strong traditions and family ties and they will fight to the death for their homeland.
for any fools who run this girl down, my one question for you is………what would YOU do if your country was fighting for its life, worse your position in your FOB was surrounded and you were down to your last rounds what would you do… ?
me ? I would take as many of these monsters with me as I could…..
madge hirsch says
Saladin was a Kurd. We should salute this brave woman. She gave her life to kill IS fighters. Sala
gravenimage says
Saladin was a Jihadist. His reputation as a chivalrous knight dates from much later Western romantic authors.
Salah says
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a suicide bomber for a suicide bomber.
Now, how about a beheading for a beheading?!
Salah says
Just to be clear, we should not approve of such subhuman tactics. But, hey, sometimes jihadists need to taste their own medicine!
Truth says
I say a cruise missle for a beheading in revenge. Maybe eliminate Mecca.
David says
I salute her courage and selflessness. She is a great heroine. She decided she had a choice. Either let the town fall and have herself and her sisters carted into slavery or she could do something. In the Alamo, the Texans chose death rather than surrender. During the Israel Independence War, a group of 135 held out in the Negev against thousands of Egyptian troops and had agreed to die at their posts. This is the type of courage and selflessness that we need if we are going to prevail. Change the article to show her as a great heroine.
David says
We need to report her name so people can name their daughters after her as an example of great selflessness.
Liza Jones says
This lady acted heroically to take out as many ISIS fighters as she could. She would have been captured otherwise and she chose this final act of courage to save the Kurds who were under attack. She is to be commended. I wish I could believe I would have her courage under those circumstances.
David says
AMEN!!!
Charli Main says
Hell hath no fury like a woman fighting to protect her children and home.
I can only hope that one day a memorial will be raised to this valiant woman.
RIP Arin.
Wellington says
Islam has a polluting effect even on so-called moderate Muslims. I look upon her suicide/homicide action as just one more testimony to how screwed up Islam is.
On a specific matter, what exactly do Muslim females get in the afterlife when committing suicide for the greater glory of Islam? 72 male virgins? Free humus for eternity? No menopause? Endless shopping sprees? Four husbands? Just wondering.
John C. Barile says
This vid shows that these folks, these women fight for the Cult of Ocalan–of “Apo.” They are colored by a secular, Marxist creed–and they believe in their nation, in Kurdish-language secular education, and in women’s equality. They are only vestigially Muslim. Any distinctly Muslim notions–like “martyrdom”–are subsumed into an entirely different worldview from that of Caliph Ibrahim and his following.
TheFnorder says
Not marxist.
http://new-compass.net/articles/obama%E2%80%99s-best-ally-against-isis-force-associated-bookchin%E2%80%99s-communalism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-schumacher-and-debbie-bookchin/the-kurdish-experiment-in-radical-decentralism_b_5996184.html
http://new-compass.net/articles/bookchin-%C3%B6calan-and-dialectics-democracy
John C. Barile says
Oh, and notice how they keep pet dogs–I’m sure that mountain people, like the Kurds–the Medes of antiquity–have a higher regard for them than do the Arabs.
Silvia says
I think some are too fast to slam the Kurds. THEY ARE DESPERATE! They are trying to defend their people and territory. The west screwed up their situation (they were the only part of Iraq that worked and actually thrived). Then they ditched and left them with the repercussions and now the west is pretending to fight ISIS while expecting the Kurds to sacrifice their own people to fight everybody’s war!
It’s a disgrace.
Still the Kurds don’t deserve to be compared to the rest of them.
Charli Main says
@ Silvia
Agreed. This woman did not make this suicide attack for the “greater glory of Islam”. She made it to defend her children, home and country.
During WW 2 innumerable suicide attacks were made on advancing German tanks by Russian women. They weren’t doing it for the ” greater glory of Russia”. They did it to defend their homeland.
David says
Absolutely correct!!
Silvia says
Look who’s having to fight for the world!!!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781680/The-grannies-Kalashnikovs-facing-bloodbath-Nato-s-doorstep-Gun-toting-women-symbol-Turkish-town-s-Dad-s-Army-style-resistance-against-IS-onslaught.html#comments
dumbledoresarmy says
y’know what gets me about all the media coverage I’ve been seeing so far?
There’s plenty of sympathy for the Kurds in our media, and then everybody was so fascinated by and sympathetic with the exotic Yazidis.
But by comparison, the indigenous Assyrian / Chaldean Christians of the region have been and are being basically *ignored*.
There are no in-depth interviews with members of *their* community.
There are no proposals to arm them or to train them or even to *rescue* them en masse.
It’s as if they don’t exist or don’t matter.
And yet, by the thousands upon thousands, they are being either killed or driven out of their ancestral homelands. By the Muslims. Muslims who have the *hide* to claim that the territory within which the ancestors of the Assyrians lived for millennia before Islam ever arose and before ever an Arab – or, for that matter, a Kurd! – stepped foot on it, is “Muslim land”.
Why aren’t and weren’t rescue missions being flown for *the Christians of Iraq and Syria*?????
Why aren’t special forces commandoes being sent in to organise and train them and smuggle good-quality arms to them so they can at least have a go at defending themselves and their families…not a few of them, now their backs are to the wall, have shown willing.
Where is the equivalent of an Orde Wingate, to do with the Assyrian Christians what Wingate did in Ethiopia (after he had helped lay the foundations of the Haganah, in eretz Israel)…to create a “Gideon Force”?
somehistory says
Because the world hates Christ’s followers, just as He said it would.
John C. Barile says
The Kurds, dear DDA, are said to be the Medes of antiquity.
Pavelina says
Christians just don’t rate with our President. Have you ever read his ridiculing comments about the Bible? He has a love affair going with the Muslims, and doesn’t want to make them jealous by giving too much help to the Christians.
Assyrian Christian refugees are being accepted into Australia and France, but not into the U.S. The U.S. is getting 100,000 Muslim refugees. I can’t figure it out. Could Obama be a Muslim?
Silvia says
@dumbledoresarmy, You’re right. Nothing to add to it because it’s true and mortifying.
We’ve learned nothing.
Biff H says
A Muddleman (SAW) comes to mind –
What good’s a burnoose without a bomb handler
Gardener says
There is a huge difference between a suicide attack against civilians and a suicide attack against militants, a difference ignored by Spencer in his eagerness to quip about moderates.
War is about self-sacrifice, and in some circumstances a suicide attack is even a necessary tactic. It is an extreme form of self-sacrifice to be sure, but desperate situations call for desperate measures, and the fight in Kobane is surely edging toward that territory Just like the firing of an RPG can be done to advance evil (like the Islamic State) or to repel evil (shooting at IS fighters) and to defend the good (like the right of every human being not to be enslaved), similarly a suicide attack can be done to advance evil or to repel it and to defend the good. Clearly it is a tactic that should not be used if other options are available, but sometimes in the big picture a suicide attack that takes out a number of enemy combatants can pave the way to victory or at least save the lives of many others. I am sure Arin Mirkan would have preferred to kill those IS soldiers with a drone, but that evidently wasn’t an option for her.
The Islamic State also kills male POWs and enslaves the non-Muslim women and children, and presumably they rape, torture, and kill captured female soldiers, so if you are fighting them on the ground you should be prepared to carry out a suicide attack as a last-gasp measure instead of allowing yourself to be captured. It seems that is what happened here.
Arin Mirkan is a hero and does not deserve the sneers.
Wellington says
Please reference what General Patton said about dying for one’s country. Perhaps then you won’t be as inclined to see this woman as heroic.
voegelinian says
What? A Kurd? I thought our JW Comments experts and Jihadica experts have informed us that Kurds are “victims” and can’t possibly be part of the disease of Islam that is endangering us all…
Burt says
This suicide bombing backs up my mistrust with acting on behalf with any Muslim side in their civil wars. They are all Jihadees, and will resent the non Muslim assistors in the long run.
The only reason the west should act is for the express purpose of providing safety for the non Muslims persecuted at the hands of Islamists.
Safe havens and protectorates must be provided for Assyrian Non Muslims. Muslims who agree with such an aim are welcome on side, but we must make clear that this applies only as long as they share those stated aims of the West.
Christina says
Robert, as has been pointed out by many commentators on this site, this brave girl chose to die AS A KURD to defend her homeland AGAINST (in case you hadn’t noticed … ) ISIS. I think your sarcasm is despicable, and that you should apologize unreservedly.
Abraham says
Some of the comments are unfair, this woman forced to take this action in trying to defend form Isil attack. She is defending and she is not doing it in the name of Islam, we have understand the Kurdish fighters, they are not extremist isamist who kills everyone in thier way.
voegelinian says
“She is defending and she is not doing it in the name of Islam,”
This naively childlike binary thinking so instinctive for Westerners would be cute and charming, were it not indirectly related to the reason the West continues recklessly to endanger itself vis-a-vis the problem of Islam (which, perforce, must include the problem of the Mohammedan psyche — indissoluble from Mohammedan culture).
Walter Sieruk says
An Islamic female suicide /homicide bomber is a terrible sad and tragic yet murderous affront. The is one of the outcomes of the lying and disingenuous clerics of Islam such as the imams with the lies and lines they keep telling these impressionable young girl sand women. The lies and lines they keep telling [brainwashing ] these young people are types as “We will honor you. and “You will go to paradise.” and “We are doing this for Allah.” Some “We” the reader might notice that these Muslim clerics are never the ones who go out and commit the suicide bombings. All these Islamic clerics do is mind program other people into the mindset of actually want to commit such murderous bombing because the imams are just using these people in extreme and deadly ways to use them as tools for the jihad. Furthermore all the while the bombing these Imams a who brainwashed them in the first place to commit such heinous actions of murder sit home safe. This in itself says a lot about the real character of those Muslim clerics
John C. Barile says
Only, in this case, it’s not an Islamic suicide/homicide bomber–and Muslim clerics didn’t coach this young woman; rather, her comrades-in-arms and her political party did. And it decidedly wasn’t for the cause of Allah and his religion.
voegelinian says
Proof of your apodictic claim?
John C. Barile says
Not apodictic, just a reasonable certainty. Proofs don’t really matter to a person of dogmatic temperament; proofs are always wanting to such.
voegelinian says
No proof then; just speculation. Thanks for erring on the side of Muslims.
John C. Barile says
When, may I ask–you are irritatingly smug–do you ever offer any proof?
These Syrian Kurds of the Democratic Union Party have freely governed themselves heretofore in this current vacuum, and they eschew political Islam. That’s a fact.
John C. Barile says
You don’t know how much I appreciate your commiseration with me, Phillip.
John C. Barile says
Thank you, Philip.
TheFnorder says
You’ve not even bothered to actually look anything up, huh?
http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/opinion/10-things-you-must-know-about-kurds-from-the-other-syria_23527
…
http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.com/resources/rojava/charter-of-the-social-contract/
“building a society free from authoritarianism, militarism, centralism and the intervention of religious authority in public affairs”
” Article 92
a)- The Charter enshrines the principle of separation of religion and State.”
….
Alot of these (radical leftist and feminist) kurds are atheist or alevi.
Oliver says
2 comments:
One, General George Patton said, ” A hero is not someone who dies for his country. it is someone who makes the other son of a bitch die for his country”.
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I agree with that. I also think that this woman did — from the little known of the circumstances- the best that she could.
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My other comment–a friend of mine, an Orthodox Jewish man, was traveling, and in the Midwest. he hailed a taxi, and the driver was a Kurd.
The driver asked my friend if he was (originally) from Israel. No, replied my friend, eastern Europe, but had been to Israel.
The Kurd responded, “Israel is the example that we try to hold up to our people–that we can have a homeland. We can have our pride. “.
The man went on to say, as my friend told me (several times) that the man told him that most Kurds were very pro_Jewish and pro_Israel.
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Even Mazo (perhaps in a negative way, but he or she always –to me, seems anti Israel; anti Jewish and pro terrorists; but perhaps my interpretation of his or her remarks) said that (in different terms) the Kurds are pro Israel.
(I think he or she emant ir as a negative-in fact, fairly certain of it).
TH says
I read that in 1453 when the Turks took Constantinople some nuns on running away from the jihadis of the day jumped out windows rather than lose their virginity by being raped by muslim savages.
Kepha says
I’m bothered and saddened. The girl in the picture could be the twin sister of a very gifted former student of mine, whom I thought to be Iraqi Arab rather than a Kurd. While I suppose I could shout over the loss of a few ISIS fighters (Prov. 11:10), this incident chiefly convinces me that Islam is best at wasting human lives.
John C. Barile says
It’s the Samson option, Uncle K. And, yes, Islam is the cause of much loss of human life.
David says
Samson went out in a blaze of glory and so did Arin!
John C. Barile says
Uncle Cephas, I think Horse’s animus against the US, against American political and cultural influence, extends to anyone he sees as America’s client. Evangelical Christians are thus seen as peculiarly, typically American–besides being pushy proselytizers. Israel–America’s client, if not her creation. Jews–dominant in American politics and media. Our trans-oceanic alliances–ditto, ditto.
Kepha says
John, Mazo may hate Evangelicals because they’re a group that has stolen a few sheep from the Hui fold. One of the Chinese Christians who thought up the “back to Jerusalem” meme was a convert from Islam.
John C. Barile says
I’ve heard of that meme. I think it’s the idea that Christianity spreads outward from its point of origin, progressing generally westwards across the globe back to Jerusalem.
Bob says
It seems likely that with the prospect of her town being overrun by savages that would rape, enslave or murder her, it might just be that she decided to be in control of her fate, and blowing herself up along with some of the enemy was a better option than taking her chances in captivity.
Buraq says
I have nothing but admiration for this young woman. When the Kurdish fighters withdrew from their position, she remained behind, knowing what she was going to do. She continued firing at the jihadists and lobbing grenades until they were almost upon her. Then she set off the suicide bomb vest. I would love to have seen the look on the surviving clowns’ faces when they realized that they had just had a taste of their own medicine.
She was a very brave, young woman.
voegelinian says
Yeah, your Wild West fantasy might be relevant if our only problem with ISIS, and not Islam itself.
jholl says
Turkey and Erdogan is a cowards let this happen to the Kurds …
gravenimage says
Kurdish Muslima carries out moderate jihad/martyrdom suicide attack against the Islamic State
Everyone knows that the foes of the Islamic State are all moderates, right?
……………………………
Yes—this is, of course, a big part of the problem—that we assume that any Muslim who opposes ISIS hates the same things we do—their engaging in sex slavery and genocide, and beheading innocent journalists and aid workers.
But among their opponents are Shi’ite Muslims whose only problem with ISIS is their targeting Shia along with Infidels and “apostates”, and other pious Muslims whose only problem with the Islamic State is that they are not the ones running it…