Isis: Incredible photos show civilians celebrating freedom in Syria by cutting beards and burning bu
Source: IndependentUK
Ecstatic Syrian civilians have been shaving off their beards, burning their burqas, smoking and dancing in the streets after being freed from Isis.
The jubilant celebrations were seen in the Syrian city of Manbij on Friday, where militants have been driven out after months of fighting by US-backed rebel groups.
Families ran through rubble-strewn streets, past the ruins of buildings destroyed in air strikes, carrying their babies and belongings.
Men jubilantly had their beards cut off as women ripped off their veils and set them on fire in an act of rebellion after years living under Isis' brutal interpretation of Sharia law.
One middle aged man broke down in tears of relief and joy, while female fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian Arab Coalition (SAC) shared emotional hugs with civilians.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-incredible-photos-show-civilians-celebrating-freedom-in-syria-by-cutting-beards-and-burning-a7188991.html
ISIS defeated, in part, by female fighters. They gotta be HATING that!!
dhill926
(16,355 posts)wouldn't be surprised to see a population boom 9 months from now....
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)ISIS was CREATED.
Throd
(7,208 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)"... The ongoing conflict in Syria is widely described as a series of overlapping proxy wars between the regional and world powers, primarily between the U.S. and Russia ...."
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)The drought was the trigger, the imprisonment the straw that broke the camel's back. The Syrian government under Assad, and before him Assad, had brutalized its citizens for decades.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)I was hoping the rebels would topple him. . .then Daesh put its nose in it and I changed my mind because Daesh are cockroaches.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)The Arab Spring was fomented by outsiders as well as internal politics, and it has not gone as well as some thought. In fact, destabilizing governments plays into the hands of the likes of ISIS.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)topple them without outside intervention.
Didn't the west learn anything with Vietnam, the fall of the Shah and the Taliban?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)You can pump a country dry before you have to leave!
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)The rise of Boko Harem and ISIS, as well as all the other terrorist fundie nutjobs usually is based in economics, lack of education, and poverty, not in religion. Religion is just the tool to whip up the downtrodden to do insane shit.
sherlocksistah
(51 posts)who were held hostage by Isis for 2 years! Brave SDF women fighting to free them. Hoping some sort of normal life can return to that city!
Maeve
(42,288 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)I bet I know what you were thinking, and I like it!
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Hard to get a good seal on a protective mask with a beard.
eissa
(4,238 posts)Something so many women without choice would love to do, while others in the west defend donning it as some ridiculous "feminist" statement.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)What is attacked is the imposition of dress codes on women by males -- not just islamic males mandating burkas, nikabs, or hijabs, but including males in the west banning burkas, nikabs, and hijabs.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)Many western women choose hijab, and no one should try to take that away from them.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)this is the type of thing they are referring to, and it's a valid gripe, IMO.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)They can make their own decisions. Medical, sartorial, religious ... whatever the choice is, the decision rests with THEM.
NOT you, eissa.
eissa
(4,238 posts)I remain standing with Muslim women who have no choice, be it dictated by the governments in the shithole countries they live in, or family and societal pressures outside of them. I'm from the region, and nothing exasperates liberal Muslim more than the false argument that the women who claim to wear that tent do so freely, while ignoring the intense pressure many of them feel to do so.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)it's not your choice to make FOR them, period. All the rest of your post is irrelevant.
Done.
Sand Rat Expat
(290 posts)athena
(4,187 posts)People who have never lived in a Muslim-majority country cannot possibly imagine the kinds of pressure there is on women in Muslim-majority countries to wear restrictive clothing. It is not a free choice. In fact, it is as much a "choice" as footbinding and FGM. The consequences may not be as gruesome, but the restriction of a woman's lifestyle is not something that should be taken lightly.
It's sad that the "choice" to hide one's body (because it is so evil and so dangerous to men) is being seen as some kind of feminist statement. I wish people would read some of the texts before jumping to the conclusion that it is a positive thing.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)yup
romanic
(2,841 posts)I agree 100 percent, these women burning away those black voids of cloth are heros.
randome
(34,845 posts)To say it's a woman's choice is to blithely close one's eyes and pretend everything is okay, nothing to see, move on.
Sometimes it may BE a woman's choice but I have nothing against advocating against these atrocious symbols of oppression.
And simply because it may be ONE woman's choice, it becomes an easy way to rationalize doing nothing about a very complex problem.
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eissa
(4,238 posts)The root of the covering is the belief that women are by their very nature temptresses. The deeply ingrained mentality is that in order to prevent men from sinning, the object of their moral failing needs to be hidden away. Just because some women are wearing it by choice and are trying to turn it into some "feminist" statement doesn't erase its true meaning.
TonyPDX
(962 posts)SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... now THAT'S the way you do it ...
... and you don't even need to be "greeted with flowers" ...
... just be an honest, knowledgeable and capable American administration ...
lindysalsagal
(20,730 posts)And I hope it gets broadcast that way all over the arab world.
I also hope it lasts. What will Putin do in response to this?
7962
(11,841 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)So happy for all of those civilians and the fighters who fought to free them.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)and many look jubilant. I'll bet just about anything that the bloke with the scissors (who gave himself a stylish beard before offering trims to others) had been a barber before the barbarians moved in.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,240 posts)rollin74
(1,990 posts)congrats
keep kickin some daesh bag ass!