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*by, Jamie Dettmer | The Daily Beast <http://www.thedailybeast.com/> | h/t
Hindu Human Rights <http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/>*
Some of the European women already in the ranks of the Islamic State are
trying to lure their ‘sisters’ to the marriage beds of the caliphate’s holy
warriors. BEIRUT, Lebanon — The self-proclaimed Islamic State, formerly
known by the acronym ISIS, is actively recruiting Western women and girls.
And in the process this “caliphate” that now occupies large swathes of
Syria and Iraq is showing, once again, that it’s almost as shrewd with
social media as it is ruthless on the battlefield. The tweets and blogs
apparently are written by Western women married to jihadi warriors. They
aim to persuade would-be “sisters” in Europe and the United States to
travel to the Middle East to help this al-Qaeda spinoff build its extremist
vision of an Islamic society. Potential caliph-ettes (as one is tempted to
call them) are told their main contribution to the Islamic revolution will
be through matrimony, not martyrdom; child-bearing, not gun-toting. One
blogger called “Bird of Jannah” purrs: “Women are not equal to men. It can
never be. Men are the leaders & women are [so] special that Allah has given
them entire chapter in the Qur’an.” The propaganda usually eschews the gore
and barbaric images often included in the general fare of jihadist online
posts, such as the beheadings last month of dozens of Syrian army soldiers
after a base was overrun in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa. Instead,
the marketing focuses on what one analyst calls the “private sphere,”
concentrating on the joys of jihadist family life and the “honor” of
raising new fighters for Islam. The online recruiters stress the pleasure
of providing the domesticity that a warrior waging jihad needs and by doing
so serving Islam. “I will never be able to do justice with words as to how
this place makes me feel,” tweets Umm Layth, purportedly a British woman in
Syria married to a fighter. She cherishes, she says, the friendships she
enjoys with “her fellow sisters and brothers in the Islamic State.” But
throughout Umm Layth’s posts and those written by other jihadist women
there is a morbid obsession with martyrdom. “Allahu Akbar, there’s no way
to describe the feeling of sitting with the Akhawat [sisters] waiting on
news of whose Husband has attained Shahadah [martyrdom],” writes Umm Layth.
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According to analysts at SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S.-based organization
that tracks online activity by terrorists, the recruiting efforts may have
had some success. “By creating content specifically targeting female jihadi
supporters, the Islamic State is able to establish a pipeline to assist
Western women in traveling to Syria to marry jihadi fighters and contribute
to the formation of their new society,” the analysts argue. They add:
“Significantly, these online networks have expanded in prominence and
sophistication during the summer of 2014, suggesting that the Islamic State
has already been successful in recruiting foreign women to leave their
lives in the West, and is looking to build upon this strength.” In June,
Britain’s interior minister, Theresa May, warned that it isn’t just young
Western men leaving to join the Islamic State in Syria. “We think around
400 U.K.-linked individuals have gone out to fight in Syria, mainly young
men but also some women,” she told ITV News. U.K. officials say only about
a dozen British women have gone thus far, but they worry the numbers will
rise with the increased online activity luring vulnerable women to Syria.
*Video courtesy of: CNN
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw>* There have been
several reports of European women traveling to Syria to join up with
jihadists there. In April, two Austrian girls,
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/21/teenage-girls-seduced-by-the-syrian-jihad.html>
aged 15 and 16, went missing in Vienna and resurfaced in Syria. They are
being sought by Interpol. In May, 16-year-old British twins sneaked out of
their home in Manchester and traveled to Syria
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2703792/Twin-Manchester-schoolgirls-ran-away-Syria-married-ISIS-fighters-mainly-stay-indoors-read-Quran-unless-jihadi-husbands-out.html>
to become jihadi brides. Salma and Zahra Halane telephoned their parents to
tell them they had arrived in the war-torn country and told them “we’re not
coming back.” And in July, the FBI arrested Denver nurse Shannon Maureen
Conley,
<http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/19-year-old-colorado-woman-shannon-maureen-conley-charged-with-aiding-terrorist-group-fbi-says07022014>
a 19-year-old Muslim convert, as she boarded a plane to fly to Turkey for
onward travel to Syria—she was recruited online, although in her case by a
Tunisian man who claimed he was fighting for ISIS. Not all women, it seems,
are put off by the morbid prospect of sitting around waiting for husbands
to achieve martyrdom. Women do respond to the tweets extolling the joys of
the Islamic revolution. Many seek advice using both Twitter and ask.fm, a
Latvian-based question-and-answer platform, about how to get to Syria or
Iraq. Umm Layth urges them: “Biggest tip to sisters: don’t take detours,
take the quickest route, don’t play around with your Hijrah [religious
migration] by staying longer than 1 day for safety and get in touch with
your contacts as soon as you reach your destination.” In April, Umm Layth,
who has more than 2,000 Twitter followers, distributed online an
English-language “Diary of a Muhajirah [migrant]” providing point-by-point
guidance on what these brides-to-be can should expect. There are no
mentions of the public stoning that IS advocates for adultery, nor of the
punishments for transgressing strict dress codes, but the constrained
lifestyle and the material hardships Western women will face aren’t
entirely glossed over. Umm Layth warns prospective recruits that the
biggest problem in deciding to take the plunge and head to Syria might be
opposition from family. “Even if you know how right this path and decision
is and how your love for Allah comes before anything and everything, this
is still an ache which only one [who] has been through and experienced it
can understand. The first phone call you make once you cross the borders is
one of the most difficult things you will ever have to do…when you hear
them sob and beg like crazy on the phone for you to come back it’s so
hard,” she writes. She adds: “Many people in present day do not
understand…why a female would choose to make this decision. They will point
fingers and say behind your back and to your families’ faces that you are
taking part in…sexual jihad.” But there is no question that extremist
groups try to reward their fighters with brides, however they can be
obtained. One obvious example elsewhere is the mass kidnapping
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of schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria. Islamic State has opened a
“marriage bureau” in the northern Syrian town of Al Bab for women who want
to wed jihadist fighters in territory they control, according to the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based pro-opposition group that relies
on activists on the ground for its information. A key topic for discussion
in the Tweets and online advice is what to do if parents oppose plans to go
to Syria or refuse to bless a wedding—both major hurdles for believers who
need parental consent to travel and marry. The online recruiters say IS
can appoint a guardian for them to provide permission. One of the Western
jihadi women, Umm Anwar, says in her case the emir (leader) of her
prospective husband was appointed and he phoned her father “to ask for my
dad’s consent by phone.” Umm Anwar insists in online exchanges that her
role in the Islamic State isn’t just being a housewife. She says she is
able to use her education as a medical student and she says, “Women give
birth to the mujahideen [warriors] and they are the ones who raise them and
teach them.”
source
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source <http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/love-jihad-international/>
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