500 Female ISIS Members Working on Twitter to Recruit Western Girls Into Sex Slavery
July 7, 2015 By Colleen Conley
It
has been reported for some time that The Islamic State uses social
media in an extremely effective manner to recruit jihadists from the
western world.
Thousands of young men have left their homes in Europe and the United States to join up with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
But
a little known secret has just been discovered about the terror groups’
efforts at recruiting western women. And it is the women of ISIS who
are luring them in with promises of marriage.
In
May, a U.S. special operations mission in Syria killed one of the top
men for ISIS, Abu Sayyaf, and captured his wife Umm Sayyaf. As an
active participant in ISIS, Umm Sayyaf has proven to be treasure trove
of human intelligence about the role of women in the Islamic State’s
vast sex-slave operations.
It
is little known that ISIS has had remarkable success in recruiting
women, even though the most naive young recruit knows a life of
second-class status awaits them in the barbaric terror group’s
patriarchy.
Some of them change their minds once they get a close-up look at daily life in the Islamic State. The UK Daily Mail relates
the testimony of a 23-year-old Syrian woman who defected from ISIS
after holding a “senior role” in the women’s network and now seeks to
warn potential recruits of what awaits them. “The caliphate is not what
you think it is,” she said to ISIS-curious women. “Women are raped,
sold, and stoned. Corpses are on display publicly for weeks.” European
girls at the Turkish border are gathered and delivered to the Islamic
State capital of Raqqa for indoctrination and marriage.
Sayyaf
has provided details about how the women’s network within ISIS
functions as a parallel, inferior system under the command of the
male-dominated operations. According to Umm Sayyaf, ISIS is dependent on
its women to “keep and retain fighters and run the state.”
The Daily Beast reports:
On
the lower rungs of ISIS, women are tasked primarily with serving the
sexual needs of ISIS’s male members, maintaining a home and producing
future ISIS fighters, U.S. officials and counterterrorism experts said.
In addition, in the territories that ISIS controls, there are women who
work for the religious police, or Al-Khanssaa Brigade, ensuring other
women are abiding by ISIS’s strict religious and social standards. Often
they are Arab women who can tell others when they are not abiding by
the rules. There are female spies there to make sure other women stay in
line. And still others facilitate a sex slave trade, assessing other
women or arranging temporary marriages for them.
Women
are promised as brides to male ISIS recruits—brides who have been
trained at a hostel to serve a proper submissive role. “Men who seek to
live in strict jihadist interpretation of Islam also enjoy the promise
of a wife whose life will mainly be at home,” the Daily Beast notes.
Women also figure prominently in the Islamic State’s online recruiting effort, with some 500 of them working on Twitter.
Teaching
our daughters about what truly awaits them in the “caliphate,” could be
an effective counter to the aggressive ISIS presence on social media.
President
Obama believes we can win over ISIS with “ideas.” When are liberal
women going to challenge him as their sisters are brutalized under the worst offenders of human rights that exists today?
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