Zeina Karam of AP writes that:
Extremists are working to excise women from public life across the territory controlled by the Islamic State group, stretching hundreds of kilometers (miles) from the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo in the west to the edges of the Iraqi capital in the east.
Treatment of women can be physically brutal as when:
At least eight women have been stoned to death for alleged adultery in IS-controlled areas in northern Syria …
And:
At least 10 women in Mosul have been killed for speaking out against the group…
It starts early, with young girls being reminded, emphatically, of their place. As when:
… gunmen came to the all-girls’ elementary school in the Iraqi city … with a special delivery: piles of long black robes with gloves and face veils, now required dress code for females in areas ruled by the Islamic State group.
“These are the winter version. Make sure every student gets one,” one of the men told a supervisor at the school.
“These are the winter version. Make sure every student gets one,” one of the men told a supervisor at the school.
