The story of that woman who wanted to join the Free Syrian Army

"Despite her newfound access, many of the military men were skeptical that she has anything substantive to contribute. “I don’t think we need help from a woman from Canada,” Ammar al-Sheikh, a member of the FSA who had heard of, but not met, Ms. Kanafani, said earlier this week.  Being a woman, she acknowledged, was a “barrier somehow.” But she prodded the rebels to break out of their traditional vision of how a Syrian woman should act.  When told to cover her hair by the fighters in Syria, she said she pushed back. “You guys need to be more open minded,” she said she told them. “I am a Muslim. I pray five times a day. It doesn’t mean I have to cover.”" (thanks Omar)