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follow a family across 3 years from fighting a revolution to ISIS arriving in Aleppo to being refugees. you can also find the video and information here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/children-of-syria/ Europeans have gone to join ISIS but they have also gone to fight against it. Here is a VICE video about some of those ppl - including women who have left their families and children to fight against ISIS  we discussed this at last nights lecture. The biggest recruiter tool ISIS has is proof that western democracy, freedom and equality is a lie. and that racism is the true heart of western democracies. this popped up this morning
Anti-Islam Activists To Hold Armed Rally In Atlanta, Shred Copy Of The Quran http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/04/12/3768665/anti-islam-protest-atlanta/  The Atlantic on President Obama's foreign policy for which he has won a noble peace prize (for basically not being President G.W. Bush). This foreign policy will essentially be thrown out by all the major contenders for president.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/ We were ahead of this discussion which has been prominent since the cease-fire and now peacetalks in syria are beginning. Find the article here at The new Arab - an Anti-Assad article. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english//Comment/2016/4/14/Who-fights-for-Assad   BBC has an article about what the post-Assad syria might be like.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-34676238 #syria #assad #bbc There was a moment - certainly brief - where ISIS was a violent jihadi movement (there's lots of heads in this video - be careful) but still wanted some kind of outside legitimacy. Enough to allow in a journalist to tell its tale. Is it propaganda - ISIS intends it to be - but it remains the only look inside the inner workings of the group. Two months after his reporting ISIS was overrunning northern Iraq, laying siege to Yazidi towns, and getting bombed by the United States. After that, very bad things happen to reporters in ISIS territory. From Vice News - August 2014. Medyan Daireh Reporting from inside ISIS On how they got a reporter inside ISIS - from Huffington Post from Vice News: at 2min notice the reporters surprise of randomly talking to a Yazidi fighting with the Kurds in order to regain his hometown. Kurdish Blog and Vice News provide a wealth of information on the Kurds.  above, a kurdish woman manning a post. Below, westeners who have joined the kurdish army to fight ISIS. It is currently legal for American to join a foreign army as long as it is not characterized as a terrorist group (so no IRA or Turkish PKK) or fights the United States (see Russian army).  I was a 14 year old slave - In the Washington Post Who are the Yazidis - article in The Guardian (England)  A policy paper by Moshe Ma'oz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Middle Eastern Minorities: Between Integration and Conflict We didn't have time to discuss the Turks (turkmen) of Syria and Iraq. So here is an article from Vox.com about the group in syria. In 2015, turkey actually invaded syria for a day in order to move the buried remains of a turkish founding patriarch and move his remains to safety in Turkey. Vox article on Turkmen of Syria BBC article on the Relocation of the Tomb of Suleyman Shah  Canadian man dubbed "Jewish Schindler" has created an organization to help purchase the freedom of Yazidi sex slaves. Read an article about him and his organization in this Israeli newspaper: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.673270  PBS Frontline: Escaping ISIS. This episode is about the plight of the Yazidi minority under ISIS control. See trailer below and the full episode HERE Iraqi minorities facing extinction in current crisis. from the Centre for International Governance Innovation. https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/minorities_in_iraq_final.pdf A "Second-a-Day" video" by Save the Children. It has been watched more than 53 million times and is two years old. So it is before the refugee crisis and the ISIS invasion which have only made things worse for the children of syria. |
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