{"id":27433,"date":"2015-10-23T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=27433"},"modified":"2015-10-23T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T04:55:00","slug":"equal-opportunity-terrorism-the-islamic-states-female-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/10\/equal-opportunity-terrorism-the-islamic-states-female-officials.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Equal Opportunity Terrorism: The Islamic State&#8217;s Female Officials&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27434\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/369px-Yezidi_Woman-2.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27434\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/369px-Yezidi_Woman-2.png\" alt=\"Tilke mar\u2019a yazidiyya\" width=\"369\" height=\"598\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yezidi woman in traditional costume<br>(Max Karl Tilke, 1920)<br>Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many people imagine that the so-called Islamic State is a clear-cut case of men using religion to oppress and exploit women. \u00a0Well, unfortunately it\u2019s nowhere near that simple. \u00a0Some of the most poisonous and evil people in the leadership of the Islamic State are \u2014 amazingly enough \u2014 themselves <em>women<\/em>. \u00a0And, in at least one notable case, one of these prominent female criminals is a blonde British convert. \u00a0Mind-boggling, but true:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/equal-opportunity-terrorism_1042864.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/equal-opportunity-terrorism_1042864.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yezidi women (the granddaughters of such women as the one shown above) are among the so-called Islamic State\u2019s principal victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from San Francisco, California<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Many people imagine that the so-called Islamic State is a clear-cut case of men using religion to oppress and exploit women. \u00a0Well, unfortunately it\u2019s nowhere near that simple. \u00a0Some of the most poisonous and evil people in the leadership of the Islamic State are \u2014 amazingly enough \u2014 themselves women. \u00a0And, in at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Equal Opportunity Terrorism: The Islamic State&#039;s Female Officials&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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