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Islamic State recruiting women to 'have kids and cook'
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi is purportedly shown delivering a sermon at an Iraqi mosque in July. (Associated Press)
By RAJA ABDULRAHIMcontact the reporter
SyriaIraqIslamic StateIraq Crisis (2014)Bashar AssadIslam
Using social media, Islamic State asks women to travel to the group's territory and marry fighters
Reports of women answering the call to support Islamic State are on the rise
Islamic State recruitment scripts stress that women should be prepared to raise the next generation of 'lions'
Months after declaring an Islamic caliphate, Islamic State, which has seized large swaths of Syria and Iraq, is seeking to address a need of any viable nation: women.
In Internet posts and social media messaging, the extremist Sunni militants are recruiting women to marry their fighters and have children, part of a larger strategy of state-building.
"They are treating the Islamic State as a country that needs women," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online activity by militant organizations. "The message is: 'You are coming to marry someone immediately and have kids and cook.' They're building a state."
As the Al Qaeda breakaway group comes under attack by the United States and other nations, and risks losing territory it has captured, a dual-gender expansion of membership could make it — or at least its ideology — more difficult to dislodge.
"The fact that entire families have been arriving in northern Syria for well over a year now has undoubtedly served to entrench the perception that a state or at least an identifiable new Islamic creation is forming," Lister said.
Using the social media tools that have helped attract thousands of Islamic militants from all over the world, members of the group are encouraging women to journey to Syria to start families.
Female recruits who have made the trek are chiming in:On sites like Twitter, Tumblr and ask.fm, they use the abbreviated and grammar-challenged writing characteristic of the Internet, employing lots of LOLs and emoticons even as they advocate attacks on religious minorities, quote extremist religious leaders and cheer the beheading of American journalists.
One online poster, Umm Ubaydah, claims to have traveled alone to Syria to take care of her husband and fellow Islamic State fighters. Three days after American reporter Steven Sotloff was executed, one person asked on her Tumblr page, where she occasionally writes in Swedish, what she thought of his execution. "I wish I did it," she answered simply.
Continue reading at:
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-isis-female-recruits-20140920-stor
Islamic State recruiting women to 'have kids and cook'
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi is purportedly shown delivering a sermon at an Iraqi mosque in July. (Associated Press)
By RAJA ABDULRAHIMcontact the reporter
SyriaIraqIslamic StateIraq Crisis (2014)Bashar AssadIslam
Using social media, Islamic State asks women to travel to the group's territory and marry fighters
Reports of women answering the call to support Islamic State are on the rise
Islamic State recruitment scripts stress that women should be prepared to raise the next generation of 'lions'
Months after declaring an Islamic caliphate, Islamic State, which has seized large swaths of Syria and Iraq, is seeking to address a need of any viable nation: women.
In Internet posts and social media messaging, the extremist Sunni militants are recruiting women to marry their fighters and have children, part of a larger strategy of state-building.
"They are treating the Islamic State as a country that needs women," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors online activity by militant organizations. "The message is: 'You are coming to marry someone immediately and have kids and cook.' They're building a state."
As the Al Qaeda breakaway group comes under attack by the United States and other nations, and risks losing territory it has captured, a dual-gender expansion of membership could make it — or at least its ideology — more difficult to dislodge.
"The fact that entire families have been arriving in northern Syria for well over a year now has undoubtedly served to entrench the perception that a state or at least an identifiable new Islamic creation is forming," Lister said.
Using the social media tools that have helped attract thousands of Islamic militants from all over the world, members of the group are encouraging women to journey to Syria to start families.
Female recruits who have made the trek are chiming in:On sites like Twitter, Tumblr and ask.fm, they use the abbreviated and grammar-challenged writing characteristic of the Internet, employing lots of LOLs and emoticons even as they advocate attacks on religious minorities, quote extremist religious leaders and cheer the beheading of American journalists.
One online poster, Umm Ubaydah, claims to have traveled alone to Syria to take care of her husband and fellow Islamic State fighters. Three days after American reporter Steven Sotloff was executed, one person asked on her Tumblr page, where she occasionally writes in Swedish, what she thought of his execution. "I wish I did it," she answered simply.
Continue reading at:
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-isis-female-recruits-20140920-stor
