A woman may drive a car in the Islamic State – under one condition

Some Arabs are using every weapon at their disposal to fight ISIS – including satire.

This skit from the Lebanese TV station LBC shows a woman driving a car (with Islamic State plates) when she is stopped at a Jihadi checkpoint. The sentry asks her if she’s a man or a woman (he’s not the sharpest scimitar in the armory). After she proves to his satisfaction that she’s a woman, he gets mad that she’s driving a car. But she tells him it’s ok – she’s driving a car bomb. The sentry apologizes. “The Caliph Abu Bakr Baghdadi says a woman may drive, but only a car bomb." I couldn’t make out his next words, but what happens after that requires no translation.

Note the station logo in the upper left. They turned the C in LBC on its side, turning it into the Arabic letter nun, to show solidarity with the Christians persecuted by ISIS.

Michael Isenberg is the author of Full Asylum, a novel about politics, freedom, and hospital gowns. Check it out on Amazon.com