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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:41:20 -0500   
   burfordTjustice  wrote:   
      
   > ISIS Using Feminism to Lure Australian Women into Becoming ‘Jihadi   
   > Brides’   
   >    
   > Australian women are being  lured by the Islamic State using a “warped   
   > version of feminism” promising empowerment and liberation, a report   
   > claims.   
   >    
   > According to a report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute,   
   > the Isis propaganda portrays women as empowered, but in reality they   
   > end up in a misogynistic world where they are forced to stay at home   
   > to cook, clean, and breed future Jihadi fighters.   
   >    
   > The author of the report, counter-terrorism expert Sofia Patel, told   
   > the Advertiser that a surprising number of Western women — about 550   
   > — have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Jihadi group.   
   >    
   > “[Islamic State] … has portrayed women’s involvement in its mission   
   > under the guise of female empowerment and liberation,” the report   
   > claims.   
   >    
   > “The roles and responsibilities it promises women on social media and   
   > via its propaganda are interlaced with notions of divine   
   > responsibility and duty, the promise of liberation and an idealized,   
   > utopian existence in the caliphate. “However, (that is) vastly   
   > different from the reality of life in the caliphate … IS really sees   
   > women’s worth as predominantly to maintain the numbers of male   
   > mujahideen.”   
   >    
   > The role of women in the Jihad is explained in the Isis magazine   
   > Dabiq: “My Muslim sister, indeed you are a mujahidah (fighter) and if   
   > the weapon of the men is the assault rifle and the explosive belt,   
   > then know that the weapon of the woman is good behavior and   
   > knowledge.”   
   >    
   > Australian women who use feminist propaganda to attract women to the   
   > Islamic State include Zehra Duman, who joined the terrorist group and   
   > shows off the weapons she owns, and Zaynab Sharrouff, daughter of   
   > well-know Jihadist Khaled Sharrouff.   
   >    
   > Both women use social media to romanticize the idea of “jihadi   
   > brides”.   
   >    
   > The counter-terrorism expert suggests the need for   
   > “counter-narratives” to fight the Isis propaganda that offers women a   
   > shot at creating a utopia, joining a sisterhood, and seeking   
   > adventure and romance.   
   >    
      
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