{"id":3708,"date":"2015-11-23T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2015-11-23T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:36:50","slug":"syria-isis-and-women-painful-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/23\/syria-isis-and-women-painful-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria, ISIS and Women: Painful Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ISIS<\/a>It’s all horrible, of course; morning news junkies that we are, we dread waking up each day\u00a0– always sure there will be yet another terrible story\u00a0to contend with. \u00a0Anger, fear and grief are only a few of the emotions riding roughshod through all of us,\u00a0yet Sunday, one story about three young women once again crystalized the hideousness we face.<\/p>\n

Labor unions\u00a0often call their members “brothers and sisters;” and women do it a lot. \u00a0I can’t count the number of times the words “my sister” or “our sisters” appear in women’s rights pieces and posts\u00a0and books like\u00a0Robin Morgan’s classic “Sisterhood is Powerful <\/a>“— \u00a0and it is.<\/p>\n

Sunday the 22nd of November, a\u00a0trio of “sisters” appeared on the front page of the New York Times <\/a>—\u00a0three friends who fled Raqqa, their home town in Syria and now ISIS Central, and found shelter\u00a0in Turkey; girls who grew up in houses, not tents, who went out in their summer dresses, and west swimming with the guys — and went to college\u00a0— girls\u00a0who are now\u00a0prisoners of their gender.<\/p>\n

Their stories emerge almost bloodlessly:\u00a0tales\u00a0of forced marriages, of severed heads, of complete loss of freedom and\u00a0of the deeply troubling work they did as members of the religious police, taken on to help insulate their families from the terror of ISIS’ fierce punishments, all described in the simplest of terms.<\/p>\n

This very unexceptional tone insures that their stories will\u00a0haunt me for a long time – this tale of three of our sisters, suffering like so many of theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s all horrible, of course; morning news junkies that we are, we dread waking up each day\u00a0– always sure there will be yet another terrible story\u00a0to contend with. \u00a0Anger, fear and grief are only a few of the emotions riding roughshod through all of us,\u00a0yet Sunday, one story about three young women once again crystalized … Continue reading Syria, ISIS and Women: Painful Stories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,27,1917,9,29],"tags":[3592,2812,1345,3591,2897,3421,3589,3590,44],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-current-affairs","category-nablopomo","category-politics","category-women","tag-microblog","tag-microblogmonday","tag-abuse","tag-forced-marriage","tag-isis","tag-nablopomo","tag-raqqa","tag-syria","tag-women-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-XO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}