Why are girls flocking to ISIS terrorists ?

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Scotland Yard released an airport surveillance photo of three teens who flew to Turkey on Feb. 17, 2015, apparently trying to join the Islamic State in Syria. (Photo: London Metro Police)
Scotland Yard released an airport surveillance photo of three teens who flew to Turkey on Feb. 17, 2015, apparently trying to join the Islamic State in Syria. (Photo: London Metro Police)

An alarming number of young Western women are defying their families — and all logic — to join the ISIS barbarians.

As many as 550 of the estimated 3,000 Westerners who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic terrorists are female, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London think tank.

It’s the sick siren song of the caliphate that appears to have taken hold of three British schoolgirls, who lied to their East London families last week and casually slipped out of the country on a flight bound for Turkey, believed to be a stopover for those heading to Syria, and ISIS.

The terrified families of Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and another 15-year-old friend, students at Bethnal Green Academy who are all believed to be Muslims, made an impassioned plea to their wayward daughters on Saturday.

“Mum needs you home,” begged Begum’s older sister, Aklima. “You belong at home with us. Syria is a dangerous place and we don’t want you to go there . . . We understand that you have strong feelings and want to help those you believe are suffering in Syria. You can help from home . . . Please don’t cross the border.”

But why would “straight-A” students from London seek out ISIS, whose brutal MO includes savage beheadings and burning their captives alive?

Some are coerced — but not all, says law professor Jayne Huckerby, head of Duke University’s International Human Rights Clinic.

 

“Why do they go? In many cases it’s the same reason as men,” Huckerby told The Post.

Some are alienated by harassment or discrimination against Muslims at home, and want to join what they see as a pro-Muslim movement. Some, according to the ISD, enjoy the shocking violence.

The ISD study, which examined the social-media postings of Western women who joined ISIS, found the women “celebrate the violence of ISIS, unequivocally.”

One woman called the beheading video of US Army vet and aid worker Peter Kassig“gut-wrenchingly awesome,” while others called the beheadings “beautiful.”

The women get a sanitized view of life under ISIS via social media, and can be sparked by what Huckerby calls “a sense of adventure.”

“We’re talking constantly about ISIS being brutal, but they’re getting a different story,” she said.

Women are key to ISIS’s effort to build its own state, she says, whether it’s through fundraising, having children, doing certain kinds of work at checkpoints, or simply recruiting more women.

And for some women, there are benefits to joining ISIS. Many are given free housing and food. Few seem bothered by the lack of freedom afforded to women under ISIS rule.

Others find “a sense of camaraderie and sisterhood . . . in ISIS-controlled territory, in contrast to the fake and surface-level relationships they have in the West,” according to the study.

But for women who find that life under ISIS isn’t what they expected, there’s little hope to undo their mistake, Huckerby said.

“There are women who are going there and finding the reality is not what they were sold on social media by ISIS, and they want to come back, but government policies at the moment are not encouraging return,” she said.

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19 responses to “Why are girls flocking to ISIS terrorists ?”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    I would have thought Barabie would be all over THIS article like a dirty shirt. ‘Sister Hoods’. :-))))

    1. Anti ISIS Avatar

      Lol, I think they have been promised 72 male virgins 5th.

      1. Open your eyes Avatar
        Open your eyes

        Lol what were you promised by Hezbollah? Oh thats right a donkey. Carry on.

      2. Leborigine Avatar

        Don’t forget the quotation marks 🙂

    2. Open your eyes Avatar
      Open your eyes

      The fact you now are implying I’m barbie which means you think I am a female but not were your sensibilities not offended but you joined in the conversation with man of warts shows your hypocrisy you spineless toothless old fart.

      1. Anti ISIS Avatar

        Oh but you are Barabie. The same filth that came out of your mouth back then is still flowing out today. SLAG.

      2. 5thDrawer Avatar

        I said before … ‘Whoever and whatever’ you are … look it up. 😉

    3. Open your eyes Avatar
      Open your eyes

      Not *only* were….

  2. sweetvirgo Avatar

    This is actually a sad article. What are these women thinking they will recieve from these men becoming their husbands??

    1. Leborigine Avatar

      It is sad, especially the poor parents who will never know their daughters’ fate.

      1. MekensehParty Avatar
        MekensehParty

        Poor parents? really?
        Such parents deserve this and more…

  3. Asparagas Boshlaf Avatar
    Asparagas Boshlaf

    These bitches get gang-raped like the pornstar khalifa. The bashibozuk call them “MI6 Huris”.

    After everyone has fccked everywhere, they get dumbed and burned.

    BARB-ARABIANS… back to the roots, like in the jahill times.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      My least favourite vegetable … again.
      Actually, Khalifa doesn’t … porn movies are about imagination. Only.

  4. The problem these days is that kids don’t talk to their parents anymore . They don’t want to be bothered . When they come and visit , they are always on the phone , either talking or texting or posting pics on facebook . There is no communication . Period .
    What do kids know when they are still teens ? I know they are smart but this is not enough . They still need the guidance of their folks and sincere people .
    Perhaps when these British girls get raped and mistreated by ISIS and report their horror stories to the media , then and only then the teens in the rest of the world will be able to wake up , face reality and realize it is not more green on the other side of the fence .

    1. sweetvirgo Avatar

      How will these girls report anything to the media??? You know these girls will be on lock down. ISIS criminals won’t let them go anywhere.

      1. As I mentioned before the girls are smart and they will find a way through social media to tell their horror story , but that does not mean they will survive . The only hope is that the teens in the rest of the world will be able to wake up

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar

      The odds are against (most kids) watching news and reports … for the same reasons.

    3. MekensehParty Avatar
      MekensehParty

      Arzatna, if their parents did not teach them the same values and principles that Isis follows, these kids would not have been attracted by Isis.

  5. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    It must be the American’s fault again…

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