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ISIS Actively ‘Recruits’ Girls And Women Online
Acton Institute ^ | August 6, 2014 | ELISE HILTON

Posted on 08/06/2014 2:34:08 PM PDT by NYer

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In an ugly twist on the world of online dating scams, ISIS (the Islamic terrorist group responsible for much evil in places like Syria and Iraq) is now actively recruiting girls and women in the West to join their cause. Jamie Detmer reports that ISIS is now using social media to seek out females who want to join the cause, mainly by stressing the domestic life that supports it.

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.


One U.S. analyst warns that this is becoming a “pipeline,” moving women from the West to Syria in order to marry jihadists. British officials are believed to have verified about twelve women who have gone to Syria to marry ISIS members. Some cases involve teens girls.

There have been several reports of European women traveling to Syria to join up with jihadists there. In April, two Austrian girls, 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 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, 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.

Umm Layth is purportedly a British woman now married to an ISIS member. She uses social media to assist other women who wish to do the same. She has more than 2,000 Twitter followers, and distributes advice via an online guide:

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.

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.”

This is human trafficking wearing a different mask. Traffickers – whoever they are – prey on the young, the vulnerable, the weak. Why would we expect anything different from terrorists?

Read “The ISIS Online Campaign Luring Western Girls to Jihad” at the Daily Beast.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: isis; isisrecruits; media

1 posted on 08/06/2014 2:34:09 PM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer

No , the Wookiee said Women are smarter than men


2 posted on 08/06/2014 2:35:02 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: NYer

They probably get this Pakstein or Syria or Iraqi muslum anyway if you get these Brit women who want action in their boring lives

You get that in every society Nyer

When I growing up I never thought run way from home go to war torn country say SYRIA


3 posted on 08/06/2014 2:35:45 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: NYer

In 2009 Obama released a brutal al Qaeda terrorist known as al Baghdadi, he went on to head ISIS in 2013, they have overtaken Iraq, that thousands of US military men fought to stabilize. They are killing the few remaining Christians in that nation.
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/06/147962-startling-report-isis-leader-details-release-u-s-custody-brutal-reign-terror/

Obama Administration Accused of Creating ISIS -by Muslims
Nabeel Naiem: “It is known that the USA released him from prison and he spent 20 to 30 million US Dollars to establish these ISIS groups and the first ISIS camps werestablished in Jordan, these camps were supervised by the Marines, and the arming of ISIS is all American.”
http://www.syrianews.cc/isis-the-bombshell-interview-to-impeach-obama/

OBAMA BYPASSES CONGRESS, GIVES $1.5 BILLION TO MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/03/21/obama-bypasses-congress-gives-1-5-billion-to-muslim-brotherhood

Obama Unilaterally Pulls Support for Egypt as Morsi Fights Against Taliban Terrorists
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/10/12/Obama-Pulls-Support-Egypt

White House Admits CIA Director Brennan Was “Secretly” In Kiev
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-14/white-house-admits-cia-director-brennan-was-secretly-kiev

Working for Qatar
The Truth Behind the War in Syria: The Qatari Natural Gas Pipeline – Obama’s War for Oil
http://shariaunveiled.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/the-truth-behind-the-war-in-syria-the-qatari-natural-gas-pipeline-obamas-war-for-oil/

Barack Obama’s choice for CIA chief ‘converted to Islam’ former FBI agent claims. John Guandolo claims John Brennan converted while in Saudi Arabia - 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277524/Obamas-choice-CIA-chief-converted-Islam-says-FBI-agent.html#ixzz36pfgjN9C

While Qatar, US, and Iran seem to “improving relations” bur are covertly working together, the rest of the Middle East realizes what is going on and Qatar is shunned.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26517134

Afghanistan’s narcotics problems grow worse - 2014
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/01/15/14124/afghanistans-narcotics-problems-grow-worse

How the Taliban got their hands on modern US missiles (CIA) - 2014
http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/

Syrian’s Rebels Desribe US backed Training in Qatar
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/foreign-affairs-defense/syria-arming-the-rebels/syrian-rebels-describe-u-s-backed-training-in-qatar/

Pipeline Predicament: The Ukraine-Syria-Russia-U.S. gas nexus
http://www.tehrantimes.com/component/content/article/52-guests/114806-pipeline-predicament-the-ukraine-syria-russia-us-gas-nexus

Sources: Syrian jihad coming to Egypt with help from Turkey, Qatar and Obama
http://www.worldtribune.com/2014/04/14/sources-syrian-jihad-coming-egypt-help-turkey-qatar-obama/

Seeds of Terror
How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/seeds_of_terror/#ixzz35QhbgQ8K


4 posted on 08/06/2014 2:38:01 PM PDT by mgist (.)
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Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be terrorists.


5 posted on 08/06/2014 2:45:18 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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A of men in the West are wimpy and lack convictions, hence...


6 posted on 08/06/2014 2:46:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Only a small minority of those women who left for Jihad actually make it back home alive.

Of that small minority that make it home, the majority have come home brutalized and infected with the AIDS virus and other STDs

7 posted on 08/06/2014 2:47:15 PM PDT by rdcbn
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Girls are for Blowing Up,
Goats are for sex.


8 posted on 08/06/2014 2:47:28 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: NYer

This is human trafficking wearing a different mask. Traffickers – whoever they are – prey on the young, the vulnerable, the weak.


And the stupid.


9 posted on 08/06/2014 2:48:26 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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Do they mention the required genital mutilation on the recruiting posters?
10 posted on 08/06/2014 2:53:28 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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Hmm...”Love kittens, long walks in the rain, and detonating high explosives in a crowded schoolyard.” I’d be a little suspicious.


11 posted on 08/06/2014 2:57:25 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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“ISIS Actively ‘Recruits’ Girls And Women Online”

Aren’t most jihadists already sissies?


12 posted on 08/06/2014 3:05:11 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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I think their website is making a mistake by running the “Free Genital Mutilation” banner scrolling across the screen
13 posted on 08/06/2014 3:22:30 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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Paucity of news about ISIS in the evening news for the last couple of weeks. Maybe they converted to Christianity and are out there doing good works and thus not news worthy any more.


14 posted on 08/06/2014 6:06:19 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (His Arrogance would love to replace John Kerry-Heinz but all the trained monkeys turned him down.)
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Soon to be announced - Bill Clinton making a trip to Iraq.


15 posted on 08/06/2014 6:30:09 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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