Shame on Der Spiegel Der Spiegel should be ashamed. Rather than writing a proper report and asking the German government why it abandoned Kurdish fighters on the battlefield , while they were guarding ISIS detainees, Der Spiegel mocks the braids of Kurdish female fighters executed by Jolani’s Al-Qaeda terrorists.

 

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Shame on Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel should be ashamed.  Rather than writing a proper report and asking the German government why it abandoned Kurdish fighters on the battlefield  , while they were guarding ISIS detainees, Der Spiegel mocks the braids of Kurdish female fighters executed by Jolani’s Al-Qaeda terrorists.

The Kurds sacrificed 15,000 young daughters and sons as part of the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, in which Germany participated. Yet because of the heavy price paid in Kurdish blood, terrorist attacks in Germany, France, and Belgium were stopped. Do you remember how many ISIS attacks took place in the streets of London and across the EU?

Shame on Der Spiegel          here is the          Respond to @SPIEGEL_English @derspiegel by @DuezenTekkal, journalist and filmmaker.

I had been looking forward to a somewhat relaxed weekend, as far as the current state of the world even allows, but unfortunately, there is an article that appeared yesterday in Der Spiegel which put an end to that.

I really wonder how it is possible that the renowned Spiegel magazine acts as an accomplice to Islamists by allowing, without contradiction, an Islamist braid cutter from Raqqa—whose video went viral a few weeks ago because he held up the braid of a Kurdish female fighter to the camera, mocked her, and whose actions are hardly surpassed in terms of humiliation, demonization, and misogyny—to have his say, without challenge, and without giving a voice to others, such as minorities or, in quotation marks, the other side.

How can it be that in this report, massacres of Alawites and Druze, which have been confirmed by UN reports with over 3,000 deaths, are downplayed?

How can it be that Kurdish cities like Suleimaniya, where hundreds of thousands took to the streets when attacks on the Kurds occurred and Kurdish women were thrown from buildings, are referred to as Northern Iraqi?

And how can it be that in times like these, marked by global misogyny, where it seems you can do whatever you want to women, a story is told that is entirely about men, by two men, about a man, without anyone objecting?

This report is one-sided, it is misogynistic, it is violent, and it is important to put that into perspective.

Anyone who knows our work knows that since the genocide against our religious community in 2014, we have had to become chroniclers of the genocide, so that the stories of those affected are never forgotten, and so that the genocide, as it has been recognized, is also acknowledged as genocide.

How can it be that decades later, so much space is given to the perpetrators, and the victims are once again mocked?

And in the current climate, I would like to once again appeal for solidarity, especially as a woman.

At a time when women's bodies are abused, negotiated over, and sexualized, when women's statements are not believed, we must not leave the negotiation and treatment of Kurdish women's bodies to the patriarchy.

We cannot stand by and watch as, for example, Kurdish women are thrown from buildings, braids are held up as so-called trophies, and, on the other hand, read without contradiction from this Islamist braid cutter that it was meant as a joke.

This needs to be properly contextualized. And maybe it's a utopian wish.

But I want to live in a world where those affected and women don't have to discuss the injustice done to them themselves, but where we question the systems that create exactly this breeding ground.

And no system can claim to be exempt from this.

And for that, we don't need to look to the Middle East. Let's start here