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Remember Emily Blunt as the Angel of Verdun in EDGE OF TOMORROW?
Reality has now followed cinema and become myth:
Meet the Angel of Kobane -
It's late August and Swedish journalist Carl Drott is in
Kobane.
He watches a ceremony marking the creation of a new home unit of
Kurdish fighters.
They will serve inside Kobane to keep order and
support the army and local police.
Among the new soldiers is a young woman.
She tells Drott that her father was killed by the Islamic State.
She left law school to come fight.
She left law school to come fight.
He takes a picture of her surrounded by other fighters, some female.
The woman catches someone else’s attention, too.
Their camera focuses on her and she smiles and holds up her left hand to make a V-for-victory sign.
The photo goes to a blog that supports the Kurds and then to Twitter.
ISIS tweets a photo of the severed head of a female, claiming they have killed her.
Newspapers dub her the "Angel of Kobane," and claim she is not dead and has killed more than 100 ISIS terrorists.
No more pictures of her have surfaced, but do they have to?
Does she have to have killed so many terrorists?
Is it not enough that she volunteered to defend Kobani and risk her life?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
The Kurds are fighting to survive and ISIS is trying to murder them. I hope this woman is alive and well, and I know if I were in her shoes I too would fight. But as the journalists report, she may now be more a symbol and legend than a reality.
ReplyDeleteI'm on her side. I hope she's alive and well and hiding from the murderous ISIS. I can't believe we were all so slow to act to save Kobane.
ReplyDeleteRoland, if you'd like to share a few lines of your writing, I have posted 'What are you writing?' today. Would love you to post something for us to read.
Denise :)
Anyone can use social media for their own purposes. This is an example. Too many cultures see women as a threat.
ReplyDeleteHelena:
ReplyDeleteEven if ISIS did kill her, her becoming legend is still fighting for her People.
Denise:
Yes, sometimes I despair of our world's leaders. They sit on their hands while innocents die. Sigh.
I just visited your blog and leapt into the fray. Thanks for the platform for your struggling friends. :-)
D.G.:
ISIS is a scourge even on social media. The Middle Eastern cultures are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to recognizing women as full human beings. Double Sigh.
Can man sink no lower?
ReplyDeleteWe have met the enemy, and it is us.
Meet truth, justice, and automatic weapons.
ReplyDeleteWendy:
ReplyDeleteMan can always seem to find lower levels to descend. Sigh.
Walter:
There is little truth in social media these days it seems!