The Iraqi armed forces, led by vicious Shiite militias and an Iranian Revolutionary Guards general, are surging northward from Baghdad and taking prisoners.  But some of the ISIS prisoners were dressed as women.

You may think they were dressed up as women merely so they could slip through the battle lines, but many of those covered up in black sheets, the typical high fashion for Muslim ladies in the Middle East,  also had makeup on under their veils.

Underneath the robes and veils, the men put on makeup, wore dresses and some even wore women's bras[.]

Why wear makeup if you keep your face hidden?  There is no reason to, unless...they're transgendered.

I believe what we're seeing are LGBT Muslims fighting for the Islamic State.  This may sound strange, as homosexuality is punishable by death according to ISIS, but this makes a certain amount of sense.  If you're a gay member of ISIS, and you want to avoid being thrown off a building, or crushed under a heavy boulder, one way to deal with it is to switch genders.

If you're a gay Islamic man, and you're attracted to other Islamic men, that can get your head cut off (among other things).  But if you switch genders, and become an Islamic woman, who is still attracted to Islamic men, well, then that's okay.  As long as people believe you're a woman, you can pass for a heterosexual and avoid being burned to death in a wooden cage, unless you're caught fornicating outside marriage (or if you're caught listening to music or watching a soccer match).

So I think the people who were caught were these  transgendered Muslims.  They support everything else ISIS supports – the Islamic dictatorship, the repression of women, the extermination of other religions – just not the gay stuff.  Just like Log Cabin Republicans support most of the Republican agenda except for the part about safe sex.  So you could call these soldiers Log Cabin Muslims, or maybe Camel Back Islamists.

ISIS has been rumored to be running short of fighters.  Do you think in light of this shortage they have enacted a "don't ask, don't tell" policy for jihadi fighters?

Pedro Gonzales is the editor of Newsmachete.com, the conservative news site.