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anigbrowl

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24. Why not? It's not as if women are incapable of extremism

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #22)

Mon Jan 11, 2016, 07:00 PM

Jan 2016

There are plenty of conservative Islamist women. This picture depicts female Iranian police officers detaining women for contravening 'correct' dress codes during one of the periodic public morality clampdowns.

Here in the US it's not hard to find women who express hardline conservative viewpoints notwithstanding the misogynistic aspects of their philosophy.

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The family of a woman accused of violating ISIS' dress code says she was tortured to death [View all] MariaThinks Jan 2016 OP

Women can be just as criminal as men. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #1

what could this person have done to provoke such cruel punishment.. ugh secondwind Jan 2016 #2

being born a woman. Why do some women in the U.S. vote for people who still_one Jan 2016 #3

she didn't wear the islamic garb. that's it. MariaThinks Jan 2016 #9

Wrong clothes. Its as simple & stupid as that. 7962 Jan 2016 #14

Failing to have a Y chromosome. Lizzie Poppet Jan 2016 #33

I detest the isis women even more leftynyc Jan 2016 #4

I agree! denvine Jan 2016 #6

Traitors, which are even lower than oppressors. Coventina Jan 2016 #8

It's hard to conceive of such brutality denvine Jan 2016 #5

It's gotta suck to be tortured to death 6chars Jan 2016 #26

It must be like Apocolypse Now in that region Android3.14 Jan 2016 #7

as long as they don't bring radical beliefs with them. MariaThinks Jan 2016 #10

I call those regions "The Deathlands". yes, I think many more would escape if there was a way. Sunlei Jan 2016 #13

I believe that ISIS recruits are nothing but repressed sadists tabasco Jan 2016 #11

i think there is something like 50,000 of them. MariaThinks Jan 2016 #15

I hope we are not the best that the universe has to offer SoLeftIAmRight Jan 2016 #12

to me, anyone wearing any of the stuff these killers want, are also guility of supporting this sort MariaThinks Jan 2016 #16

So if some poor woman decides that she wants to live she is .... blackspade Jan 2016 #19

i'm talking about in countries where they are free. MariaThinks Jan 2016 #30

So women wearing the Hijab in Saudi Arabia are guilty of... blackspade Jan 2016 #32

That doesn't make much sense anigbrowl Jan 2016 #23

Pure evil! WhoWoodaKnew Jan 2016 #17

Barbarians Rider3 Jan 2016 #18

These assholes make Assad seem almost patatable. blackspade Jan 2016 #20

"supports such crimes"? that's an ... unsafe ... assessment 0rganism Jan 2016 #21

Why do we accept their claim that a woman did this to her? How would anyone pnwmom Jan 2016 #22

Why not? It's not as if women are incapable of extremism anigbrowl Jan 2016 #24

It would be a way to cover up rape or other sexual assault. In a situation pnwmom Jan 2016 #25

ISIS isn't in the habit of trying to cover things up and present a facade of normality, now is it? anigbrowl Jan 2016 #28

Remind me again why we're supposed to tolerate fundie religions. nt valerief Jan 2016 #27

K&R JonathanRackham Jan 2016 #29

no idea - but people are soooo patient here while innocent people are being MariaThinks Jan 2016 #31