Rehana or "the angel of Kobane"

[crazyladybutterfly]

Her smile launched thousands of retweets, and inspired many news articles. People say she’s killed 100 Islamic State fighters. ISIS supporters have declared her dead on two separate occasions.

They call her Rehana, but that’s likely not her name. She’s been dubbed the Angel of Kobane.

How her legend was created :

It’s late August 2014 and Swedish journalist Carl Drott is in Kobane. He watches a ceremony marking the creation of a new home unit of Kurdish fighters. They will serve inside Kobane to keep order and support the army and local police.

Among the new soldiers is a young woman. She tells Drott her father was killed by Islamic State. She left law school to come fight. He takes a picture of her surrounded other fighters, some female.

http://twitter.com/CarlDrott/status/527202766289403904/photo/1

The woman catches someone else’s attention, too. Their camera focuses on her and she smiles and holds up her left hand to make a V-for-victory sign. Her right hand rests on the barrel of her gun. Behind her are members of the unit, all men. She is the only one wearing full fatigues.

http://static.digg.com/images/76019cd410d041e78158fbde1a96b6c9_084cdf0cf8c140938 87ea1d1f8d2bc85_1_original.jpeg

The next day, August 23 2014 , the photo is published by Bijikurdistan, a blog that supports the Kurds in Kobane, according to the BBC. For a while the photo “seems to have gone largely unnoticed,” the BBC writes.


The photo of the smiling woman with the machine gun appears in a tweet from the Slemani Times, an English news site covering the “Kurdistan Region, Iraq, and the Middle East.


Female #YPG fighter stands "ready to defend #Kobane from #ISIS with her life but international help is needed asap."


Rumors Of Beheading Spread
Just over a week later, people on Twitter begin claiming ISIS has beheaded a woman. ISIS supporters share a photo of an ISIS fighter holding up a female head. Soon the photo of the smiling woman begins appearing in tweets next to the Photoshopped beheading. “The association had been made,” reports the BBC.


In early October Indian journalist/activist Pawan Durani finds the photo of the smiling woman and is enchanted. He doesn’t know about the death reports, such as they are. He likes tweeting pictures of the Kurdish Women fighting ISIS. Here is is this woman, so brave and beautiful. Durani wants to share her story, and he wants everyone else to, too. He sends a tweet that identifies her as Rehana and includes a fantastic claim of her fighting prowess:


Rehana has killed more than a hundred #ISIS terrorists in #Kobane . RT and make her famous for her bravery

A couple of weeks later, the photo of the smiling ISIS fighter and the decapitated female head reappears on Twitter. ISIS supporters are saying they got her. They killed the Angel of Kobane. This is the second time they have tried to kill her on social media. ISIS wants to pierce her myth the way she pierced theirs with the claim of her 100 kills. The articles roll in. Is Rehana dead?

“Rehana is very much alive. ISIS supporters just trying to lift morale," Durani says. “Tigress is hunting for more. Let ISIS produce even a single picture of Rehana. Propaganda and falsehood runs in their blood. Rehana keeps hunting them.”

There are no new pictures of her.

Original Source Debunks The Myth
Drott, the journalist who met her that August day, reads the reports of her 100 kills, and of her supposed death. He knows Rehana is an uncommon name for a Kurdish woman.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0Ovz_vCEAEfsyN.jpg


"Rehana" has probably neither been beheaded nor single-handedly killed 100 IS fighters #Kobani #Kobane


Drott writes a Facebook post to reel in the legend, and to say the truth is enough.

“She volunteered to defend Kobani against the Islamic State and risk her life,” Drott writes. “It’s an affront to her that some people think that’s not enough, but that more fantastic details have to be invented, and it also devalues the very many completely true and even more fantastic stories coming out of Kobani. Unfortunately, there’s not an iconic picture for every fantastic story, and vice versa.”


But she still remains a symbol :



I don't know if Rehana is alive or dead, But for me she is a symbol of resistance against Islamic State. Bless her

[crazyladybutterfly]

Anyway do you have any news of her?

[RN97]

God bless her.
She did a good thing.

[Profileid]

female fighters again?
more kurdish propaganda

[Halgurd]

female fighters again?
more kurdish propaganda

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ea/36/6e/ea366ef1423154a867e1087bd870838d.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7a/a8/96/7aa896096b980b90de6d43a8546bd7ad.jpg

http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/attachments/f10/663341d1452994295-dead-isis-pesh1.jpg

https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1513202/isis-iraq-all-female-yazidi-fighters-want-revenge-daesh.jpg

[Halgurd]

Anyway do you have any news of her?

She's alive. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/angels-death-isis-savages-fear-6275913

"Tigress is hunting for more."

"Let ISIS produce even a single picture of Rehana."

"Propaganda and falsehood runs in their blood."

"Rehana keeps hunting them."

[meisje]

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[Ülev]

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[N1019]

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oh man, did you have to?

Those girls are sexy, and that really killed my boner.

[Turkminator]

If they do not fight, they are either forced to marry their cousins or will be stoned like this Kurdish girl


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i__b28ni8s

The voluntary struggle against some Arabs is of course preferable in this case.

[Halgurd]

Whenever one mentions the braveness of Kurds against Islamist terrorists, of course Turks will get all upset and come to the defence of Islamist terrorists because they are no different than them.

[crazyladybutterfly]

Whenever one mentions the braveness of Kurds against Islamist terrorists, of course Turks will get all upset and come to the defence of Islamist terrorists because they are no different than them.

indeed it's fucking hilarious

[Turkminator]

Women join the PKK to escape poverty. They flee a conservative society where domestic violence is common and there is little opportunity for women [...]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/kurdistans-female-fighters/272677/


Cut this bullshit. They fight, because they want to escape from the Kurdish society. There is no other choice for them.

[crazyladybutterfly]

oh man, did you have to?

Those girls are sexy, and that really killed my boner.

let me guess... ISIS pictures of decapitated kurdish female fighters?

[Halgurd]

Cut this bullshit. They fight, because they want to escape from the Kurdish society. There is no other choice for them.

No one is talking about why they are joining. But then let's get into this topic. Would you then agree that the PKK is a progressive force for women?

[N1019]

let me guess... ISIS pictures of decapitated kurdish female fighters?

It was a dead Kurdish female fighter, head still in place; her big brown eyes staring into Hades. Not nice, but the reality is not nice. Those girls go out there and get smashed.

[Turkminator]

No one is talking about why they are joining. But then let's get into this topic. Would you then agree that the PKK is a progressive force for women?

Don't make me laugh.

-Progressive, because they recruits women to terrorism? The ISIS do the same.

-Progressive because they advocate the female genital mutilation?

-Sexual or other exploitation of women in the terrorist camps for the male guerrillas?

-Organizationally tolerated physical or sexual violence against women?

-Controlled brainwashing to suicide bombers?

I could continue the list till tomorrow.

[Halgurd]

Don't make me laugh.

Progressive, because they recruits women to terrorism? The ISIS do the same.

-Progressive because they advocate the female genital mutilation

-Sexual or other exploitation of women in the terrorist camps for the male guerrillas?

-Organizationally tolerated physical or sexual violence against women?

-Controlled brainwashing to suicide bombers?

I could continue the list till tomorrow.

If women inside the PKK are actually oppressed then why do they simply not leave? Why do women continue to join? If one thing is for sure, is that you will not find a more courageous and free woman than a woman guerrilla of the PKK.

“Why the PKK? Because Turkish society wouldn’t let women be as free as they wished,” says 22-year-old former engineering student Roserin Wan from Van, Turkey.

“On the one hand, there was us, on the other hand the female guerrillas. They lived independently in the mountains and fought for their own people’s freedom. I wanted to be like them.”

About 40 young guerrilla fighters are standing in line. Wan is among them. Kurdish, Turkish, Yazidi, Turkmen... women from all over have decided to become PKK guerrilla fighters throughout the years. The majority of them are trained here in Qandil, abandoning their former lives and embracing one of the world’s most feared and resilient guerrilla movements.

Nuve Rashat, one of the oldest members of this female unit with 17 years of experience within the PKK, comes from a very different background from Arin, as she was born and raised in Turkish Kurdistan. But she joined the movement for a similar reason. “I did it because of the occupation Kurdistan had been suffering under for hundreds of years but mainly because the PKK’s fight for Kurdish freedom had always incorporated the struggle for women’s emancipation, which was lacking inside my society.”

http://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/female-guerrilla-fighters-pkk-2044198184

Of course people are blind to reality and only see what they want to see.

[Turkminator]

Of course people are blind to reality and only see what they want to see.


Blind to which reality?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzUcN6ZPD-g

I want to see all these PKK-Sluts with bullets in the head, 2 meters buried under the earth.

Anyone who celebrates these terror sluts here as a heroes in the forum, is for me on the same level as ISIS sympathizers.

[Halgurd]

Blind to which reality?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzUcN6ZPD-g

I want to see all these PKK-Sluts with bullets in the head, 2 meters buried under the earth.

Anyone who celebrates these terror sluts here as a heroes in the forum, is for me on the same level as ISIS sympathizers.

Your perception is worth nothing to me. It is only a matter of time before the people of Turkey will be shouting "APOCULAR GELIYOR".

[Turkminator]

Your perception is worth nothing to me. It is only a matter of time before the people of Turkey will be shouting "APOCULAR GELIYOR".

Do not worry. The Turks know how to deal with terrorists. If there are people in this region of the world which perfected the art of war, then these are the Turks.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnqWN8nRtQw

[crazyladybutterfly]

Don't make me laugh.


-Progressive because they advocate the female genital mutilation?

-Sexual or other exploitation of women in the terrorist camps for the male guerrillas?

-Organizationally tolerated physical or sexual violence against women?


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how does the secular pkk and pyg promote female genital mutilation?
and show me the proof of the other two accusations. of all the bad things i have tried to look about pkk i havent found anything like that

[crazyladybutterfly]

Blind to which reality?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzUcN6ZPD-g

I want to see all these PKK-Sluts with bullets in the head, 2 meters buried under the earth.

Anyone who celebrates these terror sluts here as a heroes in the forum, is for me on the same level as ISIS sympathizers.

yeah because now pkk as bad as it can be does ALL the exact same things that isis does? lol it cant be worse.

anyway what was the target? I find this tactic to be highly uneffective

[War Chef]

yeah yeah we get it, girl power

[crazyladybutterfly]

yeah yeah we get it, girl power

it's not for this. she is a icona , interesting to know how she became one

[JanPulja]

Turks have lost the PR-battle. Kurds are just more likeable. Politically, esthetically and in everyday life. No wonder people prefer them over Turks.

[Rethel]

http://static.digg.com/images/76019cd410d041e78158fbde1a96b6c9_084cdf0cf8c140938 87ea1d1f8d2bc85_1_original.jpeg

I see that indoeuropeanness in her is stronk!

Unfortunatly a commieess... :(

[Böri]

Pathetic attempt to change the racial picture of a brown Indo-Iranian people for gathering support to them. These female pkk members are no less than Isis since they are used as suicide bombers too

http://twitter.com/CarlDrott/status/527202766289403904/photo/1
dark hairy faces behind more representing

[crazyladybutterfly]

I see that indoeuropeanness in her is stronk!

Unfortunatly a commieess... :(

I dont see the indoeuropean?? she looks normal kurdish

[crazyladybutterfly]

Pathetic attempt to change the racial picture of a brown Indo-Iranian people for gathering support to them. These female pkk members are no less than Isis since they are used as suicide bombers too

http://twitter.com/CarlDrott/status/527202766289403904/photo/1
dark hairy faces behind more representing

she looks like the average kurdish woman. wtf are you even talking about?
and this post was not about the beaty of kurdish people and even if it was it still better than the cherrypicked people who people here use to represent turks.

If I cared to make them look "whiter" or "better looking" I would have chosen a different picture and except one guy I dont see the men to be ugly

[Rethel]

I dont see the indoeuropean?? she looks normal kurdish

Compare her with guys behind her.

Or with those:

https://rojavaazadimadrid.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/ypj-1000x520.jpg
https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1436345/kurdish-women-fighting-isis.jpg

[crazyladybutterfly]

Compare her with guys behind her.

Or with those:

https://rojavaazadimadrid.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/ypj-1000x520.jpg
https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1436345/kurdish-women-fighting-isis.jpg

the face is identical, in the pictures everyone looks lighter for its quality

[Rethel]

the face is identical, in the pictures everyone looks lighter for its quality

:confused:

[spectacular]

there are a lots of hero like her. here another one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1aVTU-muXc

[Böri]

the face is identical, in the pictures everyone looks lighter for its quality

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/files/live/sites/almonitor/files/images/almpics/2015/02/RTR49ICE.jpg
http://thekurdishproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/kurds1_3003011b.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/11/1413051764877_wps_1_Kurds_protest_against_the.jpg
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/kurdish-soldiers-control-a-crowd-watching-retired-us-lt-general-jay-picture-id1946461
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2014-10/10/133703597_14129025396341n.jpg
https://cont.ws/uploads/posts/209876.jpg
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/76876000/jpg/_76876582_51955478(2).jpg
http://i.hizliresim.com/9GYEj8.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/9GYEj8)
http://i.hizliresim.com/886Q37.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/886Q37)
http://i.hizliresim.com/B8O41p.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/B8O41p)
http://i.hizliresim.com/1Nproj.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/1Nproj)
http://i.hizliresim.com/gXPyG5.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/gXPyG5)

[crazyladybutterfly]

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you expect her to look like a man?

[Böri]

you expect her to look like a man?

These look men to you?

http://i.hizliresim.com/B8O41p.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/B8O41p)

You try to pose MENA people as smth they arent for political reasons imo.

[spectacular]

you expect her to look like a man?

he just a grey waw waw who obsessed with Kurds :lol:

[crazyladybutterfly]

there are a lots of hero like her. here another one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1aVTU-muXc

I consider this kind of attention over a female fighter's beauty to be highly dangerous for the interested women, considering WHO they're fighting (maybe i am overthinking , they re a little too old for is ' taste lol)

anyway didnt the girl at 3:20 kill herself to avoid getting captured, i remember she was 18-19 too .. i appreciate her courage

[crazyladybutterfly]

These look men to you?

http://i.hizliresim.com/B8O41p.jpg (http://hizliresim.com/B8O41p)

You try to pose MENA people as smth they arent for political reasons imo.

she looks LIKE THEM but with dyed hair LOL
she doesn't even pass in southern italy.. .
and yeah these women are good looking..

[Rethel]

there are a lots of hero like her. here another one

Yea...

http://m5.paperblog.com/i/128/1285590/the-women-of-isis-L-zOYzzu.jpeg
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/ap14736594917.jpg?quality=85&w=1100

[spectacular]

Yea...

http://m5.paperblog.com/i/128/1285590/the-women-of-isis-L-zOYzzu.jpeg
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/ap14736594917.jpg?quality=85&w=1100

just bomb them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvfI03SSy9Y

[crazyladybutterfly]

Yea...

http://m5.paperblog.com/i/128/1285590/the-women-of-isis-L-zOYzzu.jpeg
https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/ap14736594917.jpg?quality=85&w=1100

the first ones are iraniab SHIA female soldiers

these are the ones of daesh lol :
http://d.christiantoday.com/en/full/25716/women-in-isis.jpg

http://cdn.iraqinews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Archival-photo.1-650x416.jpg

lol imagine them in the battlefield

[Albobalboa]

What's her ig

[crazyladybutterfly]

What's her ig

ig ???