Yazidi Women Form All-Female Squad to Fight ISIS: "They Rape Us. We Kill Them."

I hope this doesn't distract from the more pressing concern of a paucity of intersex emojis.

But allow me to depart from that serious issue to note this palate-cleansing triviality.

'Sun Girls' brigade was formed by the renowned Yazidi singer Xate Shingal

She has 123 recruits aged between 17 and 30 who all want revenge on ISIS

They risk being murdered or held as sex slaves if they are caught by enemy

Even the youngest recruit, 17, is not worried about being captured in battle

ISIS has abducted and abused thousands of Yazidi girls from northern Iraq

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Speaking from the Sharya refugee camp, just outside Dohuk, Xate said the male Kurdish fighters are training them to use AK47s.

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Xate says the group is unofficially known as the 'Sun Girls' because the Yazidis believe the sun protects them, adding: 'The sun is something holy.'

And there is a rumour in the Yazidi community that ISIS fighters are scared of being killed by a woman because they worry they will not be rewarded with '72 virgins in heaven'.

'ISIS will never go to heaven,' Xate laughed when asked about the rumour, 'We will kill them.'

Incredible story. Lots more (including the savagery that spurred some of these girls to join) and pictures at the Daily Mail.

posted by Ace at 01:56 PM

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