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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2015-11-19:

"We were not allowed to speak our language before, and now ISIS wants to wipe us off completely from the earth. I fought ISIS in Serikani. I captured one of them and wanted to kill him, but my comrades did not let me do so. He kept staring at the ground and would not look at me, because he said it was forbidden by his religion to look at a woman." -- Saria Zilan, an eighteen-year-old Kurdish soldier in the YPJ (Women's Protection Unit).

[ http://time.com/3767133/meet-the-women-taking-the-battle-to-isis/]

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)