Kurdish female fighters.

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If the Kurds can do what the corrupt Iraq government failed to do: which is stop a medieval Islamic death cult from instilling a reign of terror.    More so the female fighters forming a vanguard to protect panicked and terrified civilians.  This, on a regional scale, may be seen as a liberation against dark age theocratic madness.

From Syria Deeply 

"I believe in a greater cause, which is protecting our families and our cities from the extremists' brutality and dark ideas," she says. "I read Nietzsche and Marx, which they don't accept. They don't accept having women in leadership positions. They want us to cover ourselves and become housewives to attend to their needs only. They think we have no right to talk and control our lives."

Kurdish women, regarded as some of the most liberal in the region, have a decades-long history of fighting. Many have fought with the PKK, an internationally recognized terror organization that works with the YPG, in southern Turkey.

Now, Ruwayda says, jihadists' repression of women has led many Kurdish to pick up arms, and that about 30 percent of the People's Protection Units (YPG) – the armed wing of the PYD – is now female.

Britan Derek, 33, is a commander in the YPG's unit in Hassakeh, another Kurdish-majority city in the north, which is grappling with the increasing threat of ISIS as the group, fueled by gains made in a June takeover of Mosul, has been marching steadily north and east.

"Women can fight better than men," she says. "We remain calm and steadfast. We are usually snipers, or on the fighting fronts. Women don't have much to lose in battle. Men dream of starting a family, or returning to their families. Whereas women who have chosen this path do so willingly. They have no other purpose."