{"id":52619,"date":"2016-09-30T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52619"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:59:12","slug":"brutal-times-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52619","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Times 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — “You’re not haunted by the war, Dr Watson. You miss it.” Yes, this will be a series. ]
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\"brutal-times-dq\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

**<\/p>\n

Part of what’s interesting about the upper image above, the one of a woman (presumably) wearing a burqa and holding a gun, is the number of times it has been used by the Daily Mirror<\/strong> — in articles on such topics as:<\/p>\n

ISIS bans the BURKA after ‘veiled female assassin’ kills two terrorist commanders in Iraq<\/a>
\nDesperate ISIS commanders now sending female fighters to die in combat<\/a>
\nSee US army taunt ISIS with special message in footage of coalition airstrike<\/a>
\nHundreds of ISIS brides sent for COMBAT TRAINING in Libya after being ‘promoted’ from role as wives<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The legend under that last one reads “ISIS is using hundreds of women on the frontline in Libya” — which might lead one to believe the photo was taken there, in Libya. Why, then, would it also be applicable to two pieces about ISIS in Iraq?<\/p>\n

That image is a glorious stimulus for hatred, though, which seems to mean it bears frequent repetition. And guess what, it might have been shot with a model, a male model for that matter, in Brixton, not Libya or Afghanistan (where blue burqas are common) or Iraq…<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Um Hanadi<\/strong> (the cook, whom you’ll notice, lower image above, does not wear a burqa) is on Facebook, CNN reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

After listing all the attacks against her, and all the loved ones lost to ISIS, Um Hanadi said: “I fought them. I beheaded them. I cooked their heads, I burned their bodies.”<\/p>\n

She made no excuses, nor attempted to rationalize this. It was delivered as a boast, not a confession.<\/p>\n

“This is all documented,” she said. “You can see it on my Facebook page.”<\/p>\n

So we checked. Among many pictures of her with her dead husbands, fighters and generals, there was a photo of her in the same black combat fatigues and headscarf holding what appeared to be a freshly severed head. Another showed two severed heads in a cooking pot. In a third photograph, she is standing among partially-burned corpses. It’s impossible to verify whether the photos are authentic or Photoshopped, but we got the point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two questions for moralists \/ ethicists:<\/p>\n

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  • Is a woman killing ISIS militants morally or ethically any different from a man doing so?\n
  • Is a woman who cooks the heads of her and our deceased enemies a desirable ally?<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    Hey, that Express <\/strong>piece about the “veiled female assassin” who killed two ISIS militants even gets to offer you this tasty view, with the accomnpanying legend “A woman wears a veil, which is now being banned in parts of northern Iraq”:<\/p>\n

    \"muslim-woman-wearing-black-veil\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Now, is that hot, or what?<\/p>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Iraqi News<\/strong>, Veiled woman kills 2 ISIS militants in Mosul<\/a>\n
  • CNN<\/strong>, The Iraqi housewife who ‘cooked the heads’ of ISIS fighters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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