Samuel Smith and World Watch Monitor

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  Oct 17, 2014

  Apple, Facebook Insinuate 'Mothers Are Not Welcomed in the Workplace' With Freezing Egg Benefit, Says Christian Theologian

  Although some are praising Silicon Valley technology companies Facebook and Apple for offering to pay for their female employees to undergo egg freezing procedures that would allow them to put off childbirth until after the prime of their careers, a Christian ethicist is arguing that companies paying for such fertility treatments send the message that "mothers are not welcomed in the workplace during the prime of their careers."

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  Oct 17, 2014

  Abortion Ad War Gets Ugly: Pro-Life Womens Group Accused of Being 'As Anti-Woman As It Gets,' Compared to Sex Abusers

  As the 2014 midterm elections near, pro-life and pro-choice advocacy groups are in the midst of a television advertisement war that has been heating up in recent weeks as one pro-choice group has been attacking pro-life congressional candidates in advertisements that suggest that they are "as anti-woman as it gets."

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  Oct 16, 2014

  'White Shroud' Guerrilla Group Claims to Kill 100 ISIS Militants; Islamic State Fighters Hunted by Syrian Rebels

  Militants in the Islamic State terrorist group now have more to worry about than U.S.-led airstrikes and the Kurdish peshmerga fighters. An increase in guerrilla attacks on ISIS militants conducted by multiple Syrian rebel combat groups suggests the emergence of a guerrilla campaign in one of ISIS' most prominent strongholds in eastern Syria.

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  Oct 15, 2014

  Escaped ISIS Captive: ISIS Showed Me Videos of My Neighbors' Beheadings, Put Lifeless Heads in Cooking Pots; Many Times I Thought of Suicide

  Testimonies from two Yazidi female teenagers who have escaped from the tight grip of the Islamic State detail their horrific experiences as ISIS captives. One of the girls, like many other ISIS captives, contemplated suicide before her eventual escape.

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  Oct 15, 2014

  Report: ISIS Likely Using Saddam Hussein's Chemical Weapons

  Pictures acquired by the Middle East Review of International Affairs provides visual evidence that the Islamic State terrorist group may have already used Saddam Hussein's leftover chemical weapons on Kurdish fighters.

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  Oct 15, 2014

  ISIS Militants Fear Being Killed by Woman and Losing 72 Virgins for Martyrdom; Kurdish Co-Commander Defending Kobane Is Female

  As it is believed that many jihadists fear that being killed by a woman would cost them their promised "paradise" in the afterlife, it is worth noting that a Kurdish female is one of two commanders leading the resistance against the Islamic State's quest to capture the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane.

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  Oct 14, 2014

  ISIS Training Video: Recruits Shot At, Systemically Kicked in Stomach by Instructors

  The Islamic State terrorist group has released a new propaganda video that details their unusual military training tactics and their modes of spiritual training as they prepare recruits from all over the world to take on the challenges of jihad in Iraq and Syria.

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  Oct 13, 2014

  ISIS Hostage British Photog: Islamic State 'Eagerly Awaits' US-Led Ground Troops

  British war photographer and Islamic State hostage, John Cantlie, appeared in his fourth Islamic State propaganda video on Sunday and claimed that the ISIS militants "eagerly await" the arrival of U.S.-led coalition ground troops, implying that the militant group cannot be quelled without them.

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  Oct 13, 2014

  Report: Islamic State Sells Yazidi Girls for $1,000, Yazidi Boys Forced to Train to Become ISIS Militants

  A new report released Sunday provides more details on how Islamic State militants are inhumanly treating their captives of religious minority groups, more specifically the Yazidis. The report finds that militants are forcing preteens, teenagers and grown women into forced marriages and sex slavery, while forcing detained Yazidi men to convert to Islam and young Yazidi boys to train to become ISIS fighters.

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  Oct 11, 2014

  Ohio Community Defies Atheist Group's Threat With Public Prayer at High School Football Game

  An Ohio community sent a message to the atheist advocacy group Freedom From Religion Foundation Friday night as community members made it known ahead of time that they would hold a large public prayer following the completion of the local public high school football game.