Posted on 08/08/2015 1:51:16 PM PDT by rickmichaels
As news reports of Western youths joining ISIL dominated the headlines last spring, Hanna Bohman — once a fashion model, then a sales clerk — ran the other way: away from her cushy life in Vancouver and toward the front lines in the war against the jihadists.
In March, she boarded a plane to Iraq, and spent 10 days trying to get across the border into Syria to join up with the Kurdish women’s defence forces, known as the YPJ.
She had found her calling.
Now back in Vancouver after four months of moving from abandoned houses to deserted schools, she describes what drover her to the front and the unglamourous, but rewarding life, she lived in northern Syria — the area the Kurds call Rojava — and how she longs to go back.
“There was no one event that motivated me,” said Bohman, reached by phone in Vancouver. “Seeing evil beyond evil, the video of the Canadian guy (John Maguire) joining (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), the fact that governments weren’t doing anything about it. And then I learned about what the Kurds were doing, and I flew to Iraq.”
At first, Bohman, soft-spoken, but seemingly unshakable, was taken to a safe house, then to a camp in the mountains.
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I suppose we need to ask...
She is very beautiful!
I see the inner beauty gleam from her eyes!
I’m still seeing Liam Neeson in a wig ;)
Shame on Obama.
Wow. You turn this story into a beauty contest. Really?
Instead of being served by 70 virgins for all eternity, the bodies of ISIS thugs should be served to 70 pigs. Being digested by those “unclean” bottom feeders will (1) remove a lot of evil from the world, and (2) give the rest of them richly-deserved nightmares. I’m okay with this lovely woman sending terrorists to their just desserts, with what they see as the shame of losing to a woman, and particularly if she can arrange to dispose of the remains in an appropriate manner.
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