Female Kurdish soldiers pose religious dilemma for Islamic State

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Photo: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take an oath to fight the Islamic State.

Itai Anghel, Israel’s most experienced war reporter, traveled three years ago to the Kurdish part of northern Iraq, where he spent time with those now on the frontline against the Islamic State.

Fighting against the female soldiers of the Peshmerga (the Kurdish national army) poses a great religious dilemma for the fundamentalists of the Islamic State, says Engel.

This is a segment from So Much to Say: Listen to the full show.

http://tlv1.fm/news/so-much-to-say/2014/08/25/female-kurdish-soldiers-pose-religious-dilemma-for-islamic-state/

13:27 audio at link.

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1. A post from yesterday afternoon may disagree with this claim.

The DU post.

You can follow the yellow brick road to this:

Myth #6: ISIS is afraid of female soldiers

A bizarre meme going around claims that ISIS is really afraid of fighting all-female Kurdish military units. The theory is that ISIS fighters believe that if a woman kills you, you don't get to go to paradise.

The truth is that ISIS' approach to women is much more complicated — and troubling — than Western stereotypes about Islamists would suggest. ISIS has its own female brigades, and the group uses them to enforce its deeply misogynistic ideology.

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I'm not sure they're talking about the same claim.