Female jihadists are just as ‘motivated’ to build an Islamic State as men, report concludes

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It’s not about gender, race, nationality etc – it’s about religion.

Female jihadists are just as ‘motivated’ to build an Islamic State as men, report concludes

By: Hollie McKay | Fox News June 14, 2019:

Female jihadists are just as dedicated as their male counterparts when it comes to bringing to life an “Islamic State,” the European Union’s police agency stated Friday.

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“Female jihadists are ideologically motivated as their male counterparts and their sense of empowerment lies in contributing to the building of an Islamic state,” Europol surmised in an extensive report titled “Women in Islamic State Propaganda,” adding that there are numerous examples of women who either executed or were intending to execute vicious attacks.

“(This) proves that women are willing to use violence if the ideology allows them to do so,” the report concluded. “For now it is not yet their role, but this balance may easily shift according to the organization’s strategic needs and developments on the ground.”

Europol figures show that around 15 percent of individuals convicted on jihadi terrorism-related charges in the European Union last year were female, and the often murky role that women do play in ISIS has become a particular cause for concern as foreign governments are being pressed to allow terrorists’ wives and their families to return to their homeland having fled abroad to Iraq and Syria.

“Women are as ideologically motivated, if not more so, than men,” Anne Speckhard, director of the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, told Fox News. “This is because women in groups like ISIS and al Qaeda often have fewer combat roles and more supportive roles so they fall into learning and spreading this virulent ideology to others—primarily their children and other women, and are also often very active as Internet recruiters.

“Militant jihadi groups appeal to their recruits by blaming the West as they show Muslim victims of violence and females are particularly sensitive to being moved into action when they see other women and children as victims of violence.”

Analysts in recent years have pointed to the notion that women’s roles within extremist outfits like ISIS have expanded when it comes to establishing and upholding the foundations of the organization.

Foreign women who flocked to join ISIS had an especially important role in recruiting other, primarily western, women. Some joined a group known as the Kata’ib al-Khansa brigade which functioned as a type of religious police ensuring females upheld the strict Sharia dress code and regulations; and issued harsh punishments for violators including jail terms, floggings and publicly humiliating them in iron cages.

An International Center for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) policy briefing at The Hague last year also concluded that “women’s roles have been complementary to men’s and argue that women form an integral part of contemporary jihadism that cannot be seen as separate from or secondary to men’s contributions.”

“These women mostly played supportive or facilitative roles as mothers and wives, as propagandists and recruiters. Some women have been involved in educative, administrative, logistical, social and medical positions,” the brief stated. “On a smaller scale, women in ISIS have been involved in operational positions, including those that are related to the planning or execution of attacks.”

Both the ICCT and Europol reports underscored that the additional step of including women in combatant positions has something of a “shaming” effect on men, thus propelling them to take up arms.

“But women can also be powerful forces for counter-messaging and counter-radicalization. Most ISIS cadres kept in touch with their mothers even during years of serving in ISIS, calling home regularly and many regretted not having listened to their mother’s advice not to join,” Speckhard pointed out. “Mothers and sisters can be powerful voices to speak against getting involved in militant jihadi movements.”

ISIS wife who went from her home in Germany to Syria, Heida Raufi, says she is writing a book in the hopes of preventing other women from making the same “mistake” she did. (Hollie McKay/Fox News)

David Ibsen, the Executive Director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) stressed that while there have been many examples of women and girls having served as recruiters, recruits, or fighters for ISIS, these roles are often assumed to earn privileges and a reprieve from the brutality and isolation of their environments.

“To be clear, women within ISIS-held territory are denied basic human rights. Rape and physical abuse for girls as young as nine years old are a constant threat,” he added. “By cooperating with ISIS, women, and girls can earn freedom of movement, and better access to health care as compared to their non-recruiter counterparts.”

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

omar or ilhan could have told you this

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Tyrant Culture
– is always full of hate
– because tyrants always victimize
– is always full of fear and terror
– because the powerful must intimidate in order to subjugate
– is always full of religious zealots
– because tyrants always claim moral purity
– is always full of corruption
– because people must bribe to bypass unjust laws
– always causes poverty
– because tyrants damage the economy

Marc
Marc
4 years ago

“Jihadists are motivated to build an Islamic State”. Makes sense.
Like “Feminists are motivated to create a male-free society.”
It would be desirable if there were something in between.

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Marc

But I must confess, contrary to all postmodern self-conception:
I seriously doubt, however, that a society that takes the alleged
“motivations” of women too seriously will survive in the long run.

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Marc

How can I claim something so terribly patriarchal and backward? Hu-
manoids have existed for about 3 billion years. To this day, there is
not a single historical example or evidence in which women have se-
riously been the yardstick for long-term viable advanced civilizations.
Why that? Because otherwise nature would have made men of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minangkabau_people

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Marc

There are truly people who consider the last 70
years to be the history of the origins of mankind.

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Marc

Why is Islam so damn “successful”? Stupid ques-
tion: Because it gives the command to the women!

I’ve always said this is not gonna get you out of trouble.
Only by strengthening men, fathers and sons. Every bio-
logist, anthroposophist, ethnologist knows that. But what
counts today is not experience, but ideology. Keep it up!

Marc
Marc
4 years ago
Reply to  Marc

(“3 billion” = 3 million of course)

Tm.
Tm.
4 years ago

So someone didn’t know this? Really? That’s sad, actually it’s obtuse.

Bonnie Pupowner
Bonnie Pupowner
4 years ago

I figure all the inbreeding and mind washing has them stupid.

Murielle
Murielle
4 years ago

Ever read “Shoot the Women First?” Who do you think it was written about?

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

rabid muslim pigs.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

It is true, look how many Western women who convert to Islam go overseas to fight for jihadist groups!

Gamal
Gamal
4 years ago

The women in my life convinced me women are crazy but this crazy???????

created4el
created4el
4 years ago

Sooo not surprised that Muslim women are just as motivated as the Muslim men… what I don’t understand is why… why would the women even want to be part of Islam in the first place?

Despite the tuqyah claims of the likes of Omar, Tlaib and Sarsour, a Muslim man can have up to 4 wives and they can also have as many sex slaves as they want, a wife can be as young as 6 years old (just can’t have sexual intercourse with her until she is nine… but that doesn’t mean you can’t have sex with her), can beat the wife even if she did nothing wrong but just at the thought she might have, FGM and so many other horrible things. But these are still nothing compared to “paradise” that they can look forward to assuming their Allah chooses to let them in. I have yet to find anywhere in the Islamic scripture that says single Muslim women will be let into Islamic “paradise.” But the women who are allowed in are only those who pleased their husbands on earth. And once they are in, their husband will have 72 perpetual virgins and so if she wants to spend time with her husband in Islamic “paradise” she’ll have to wait her turn… instead of being 1 of 4 wives it’ll be 1 of 73 wives or maybe 1 of 77. And considering these 72 virgins seem to be some perfect specimens with big breast, does the Muslim woman think she has anything over these perfect 72 virgins? And those single women and those women who didn’t please their husband, as Mohammad says, most of the women will be in hell in fact hell will be filled mostly with women. But it seems kind of ironic that in Islamic “paradise” if there is a 72:1 ratio of virgins women to men then Islamic “paradise” will be filled with mostly women… Is that contradictory or is that confirming something?

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