Jihadists deceive women under the name of utopia

 By Hossam Haddad

Women’s Jihad book, published lately, reveals the reasons behind women’s participation in ISIS’s battles and carrying weapons to fight together with men joining the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization.

The French book, written by specialists in sociology and psychology, sees that this newly-noticed phenomenon has surfaced because jihad’s leaders campaign for utopia in order to spur women to take part in the battle ground with ISIS.

Those leaders portray that whoever holds arms to accomplish this goal is a defender of Islam and that is why the women were attracted to Jihadi movements.

The 112-page book, written by Farhad Khosro Khafar and Fathi bin Salama, considers women joining the ranks of ISIS experience a psychological problems and identity crisis, and it confirms they will be much dumbfounded by tragic circumstances in the coming future.

Utopia achieved by Jihad which the terrorist campaigners call for, aims to portray the jihadist’s wife as a woman married to a noble and courageous Emir and a mother of future fighters.

Sociologist Khafar says that jihadi women mainly, the youngest ones, have desires to become adults and to free themselves from a state of long adolescence, from which they suffer in western countries.

In that respect, psychologist, bin Salama, elaborates that female adolescents want to have a child to stamp out the long period before marriage where they experience in their western communities.

Unlike men, who left their countries to fight only with ISIS, jihadi women are driven by utopia and romance where they see those terrorists as knights in shining armour.

Advocating a certain issue and the willingness to die for a noble goal, the female adolescents find in those men their ends as Ideal husbands.

“while taking part in battle ground, they tragically discover reality not related to what they imagine. They run into the bitter fate especially for those who want to come back home,” Khafar shows.

There were many women in despair because they were stranded in the hot spots and couldn’t return to their countries,” he adds.

According to some stories from whom they survived, many women were killed while attempting to find a way for returning to their homes.

“Imposing a full-body veil and holding wives as hostages in locked places are considerable evidences for a discriminatory and demeaning treatment of women,” the two think tankers described, according to some witnesses.

ISIS urges women to enter the battle ground because they are in a desperate need to boost its manpower as a result of huge losses they incurred in Syria and Iraq.

ISIS uses women, as well, as suicide bombers because they were very rarely checked for explosives.

“If they experience a bitter fate nowadays, they will meet with the worst-case scenario in the coming months,” the writers forecast.