Watching the recent footage of Islamic State gang members haggling over the price of captured Christian women in a makeshift slave market — one of them wants a 15-year-old with green eyes, another wants to exchange a girl for a gun — I was reminded that Islamists are at least consistent in their hateful worldview and in a way uniquely honest.

For some left-wing men, the misogyny of the Islamic State is part of the appeal
The way they treat women is not the catch – it’s the unspoken main attraction

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