Call it woman power, call it feminism, and you’d be right. Turns out that old story about the mother who is able to lift a car to save her trapped baby has a new application. Now we can tell the story of the Dutch mother, who goes only by the name “Monique,” who blew past the authorities and went straight into the heart of hell to rescue her daughter Aicha from the grip of Islamic terror.

The New York Post reports:

“Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do,” the brave mother said. “This is what I think is right.” At 18, Aicha converted to Islam and married a notorious Dutch jihadi named Omar Yilmaz, the Telegraph reports. The young woman had fallen in love with the Islamic State militant and his lifestyle after seeing him interviewed on television. But as time passed, Aicha felt she had made a huge mistake. “She wanted to go home, but could not leave Raqqa without help,” Monique said. Authorities in the Netherlands urged the mom to stay home because it was too risky to try and get her back personally. But once Aicha reached out to her mother last month for help, Monique decided to take off for Syria. Donning a black burka to blend in, she made her way through Turkey and into the ISIS stronghold, where she met her daughter after coordinating a rendezvous through Facebook. The pair crossed back over the Syrian border into Turkey, but since Aicha did not have a passport, she was promptly arrested along with her mother, according to the Telegraph. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Turkey is now mediating their return home and expects that the two will be back in the Netherlands within the week.

Okay Hollywood, where’s the movie deal? Better yet, let a counterculture conservative get their hands on the story and “let their right brain run free.” While Emma Watson trolls UN podiums and Beyonce flails around in front of flashy signs, Monique the Mom single-handedly changed the face of Western feminism in the way only a parent could. Not only did she dismiss every argument against motherhood with a wave of her hand, she bravely confronted what contemporary feminists seemingly cannot: The fact that radical Islam abuses women.

According to a recent Time article, at least 300 women from Europe and the U.S. have tried to join ISIS. Lee Smith, writing for Tablet magazine, reports:

A Washington Institute for Near East Policy poll last week showed that the Islamic State has more support in Europe than it does in the Middle East. The poll reported that only 3 percent of Egyptians, 5 percent of Saudis, and under 1 percent of Lebanese “expressed a positive opinion of the IS.” On the other hand, 7 percent of U.K. respondents had a favorable view of the group, as did 16 percent of French polled—with 27 percent of French citizens between 18-24 responding favorably.

As to the question of what draws young women especially to ISIS, Smith observes:

Because, for all the awesome social services and consumer goods it can offer, Europe has become incapable of endowing the lives of its citizens, Muslim or not, with meaning. …What Europe’s disaffected youth see is that the Western powers roll over and take it, again and again. The issue isn’t that we enjoy being humiliated. It’s just that we don’t really believe there’s anything worth fighting for. And that’s why thousands of Europe’s young Muslim men have taken sides against us—and why 15-year-old girls hold us in contempt.

It’s a theory that gels with Monique and Aicha’s story, which must act as a wake-up call for Western culture at large. The kind of feminist “brand” being put forth by the likes of Lena Dunham doesn’t cut it up against an all-encompassing religious-political-social movement with life-changing impact. If feminists want Western women to survive and thrive, they need to offer a meaning that can’t be easily brandished onto a t-shirt. And if Christians and Jews are at all serious about confronting the threat of radical Islam, they’d better trade out their squabbles and slogans for Bibles and faith before they’re purpose-driven out of existence.

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