The Influence Of ISIS On Women

– Hidden and isolated. Islamic extremists insist women and girls stay at home, and can only leave if they are fully covered and accompanied by a male relative.

Over the past year or two, newspapers, radio stations, and news broadcasts have been covering the rapid ascent of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. But they have spread far beyond those material boundaries, reaching into the minds and homes of young people across the globe. These young people are led to believe that ISIS is saving the world, not harming it and that they must partake in the fight for religious dictatorship. They are instructed over the internet to perform acts of terrorism in their own country, known as domestic terrorism. Due to the dramatic increase in terrorist activity

There are many political, religious, and cultural factors that shape the lives of Islamic women many of them are completely different than factors in the lives of American women. Islam is one of the world’s fastest growing religions; however, Brooks argues that “Islam’s holiest texts have been misused to justify the repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of this once liberating faith.” The book also shows these factors have slowly been taking away women’s rights, rather than furthering them.

According to American intelligence officials, 20,000 foreigners and at least 3,400 Westerners have joined the Islamic State’s cause and are now fighting on the frontline in Iraq and Syria. Unlike the British in WW1, ISIS doesn’t use propaganda posters to recruit new fighters, they use social medias like Twitter, Facebook, and Whatsapp to reach their target audience in a language it understands. According to U.S. States Department spokeswoman,

Unlike other terrorists groups whose main purpose is to enforce terrorism around the world, ISIS’ brutal strategies are how they defend their beliefs and protect their land (Chavez). ISIS has been able to obtain a majority of their land even with U.S. led coalition strikes and ground operations; they control much of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin, northern central Iraq, and northern Syria and seek to control every aspect of their land in each city and town, including essential roads, oil fields, and military facilities (BBC). “In March [of] 2015, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross [estimated there to be] more than 10 million people [living under ISIS control]” (BBC). Inside areas where ISIS imposes its austere rendition of Sharia, another way to say the “framework” of Islam, women wear full veils, public beheadings are a daily routine, and those who refuse this way of life are forced to supply the government with a certain tax, convert, or choose death

Isis used the internet to target three teenage girls from Britain, who may have traveled to Syria to join. Isis is using children and young adults in untruthful advertisement in order to draw other children into their group especially young girls. In one posted video, it shows young boys dressed in military attire and Isis bandanas learning hand-to-hand combat. These young boys are known as the “Cubs of the Caliphate” (http://wgno.com).

As a matter of fact, in the novel the Taliban (who was the main terrorist group at the time the novel was actually taking place) had decrees that all had a “certain logic: the extermination of the Afghan woman”(Latifa 52). The Taliban and ISIS hate women, and they want women to be of little

There is no denying that Muslims are treated differently now, and ISIS has seen that and has used that to their advantage. ”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."” (Why girls join) In the past women were seen as the people in society that would never condone violence, but the changing role of women has also changed the way they see violence. ISIS wants to find people who celebrates another western terrorist dying, and they do not care what gender. They have found a new demographic and because of that they are increasing the amount of people willing to commit acts of terror. Females often long for the sense of family and community, and when that is taken away since they can easily go into a state of depression, especially if that is all they have, “And for some women, there are benefits to joining ISIS. Many are given free housing and food. Others find a sense of camaraderie and sisterhood" (Why girls join). IS has invaded many Middle Eastern countries and turned them into war zones and has left thousands of people dead or living in terrible conditions. ISIS promises the people that are barely living everything that they desire. This can consist of a safe home, food, water, and most importantly the feeling of community once again. ISIS has created a plan to ensure that people will join the “cause”, and everything they have done, whether it was creating social media accounts or raiding countries for all of their belongings has had an end goal of getting

When ISIS went and got the women, they would take them by buses. At every stop they made, ISIS would humiliate the women. ISIS humiliated the women by touching them inappropriately, violating every women. The bus would take the women to Mosul where they kept all the Yazidi women and children. Mosul was holding more than one hundred and fifty Yazidi families. ISIS would exchange the women and children as gifts, separating the families.

justify their actions. This very sickening to read ,but in their country it 's being advocated as okay within confined lines.“A growing body of internal policy memos and theological discussions has established guidelines for slavery, including a lengthy how-to manual issued by the Islamic State Research and Fatwa Department just last month. Repeatedly, the ISIS leadership has emphasized a narrow and selective reading of the Quran and other religious rulings to not only justify violence, but also to elevate and celebrate each sexual assault as spiritually beneficial, even virtuous.”They are not treated as humans but instead are treated as meat.“Right away, the fighters separated the men from the women,” she said. She, her mother and sisters were first taken in trucks to the nearest town on Mount Sinjar. “There, they separated me from my mom. The young, unmarried girls were forced to get into buses.” This article was definitely a tough read because it 's hard to stomach another human being going through this on

Anyone who comes to Syria are forced to register with the militant government. People have to register for the militant government so that ISIS can keep tabs on everybody. When people come into the ISIS caliphate, he or she are searched because one can only bring in certain things. ISIS takes all passports, making it harder for people to leave or travel (Engel, 2016). Women cannot go anywhere without a male escort and have to wear a veil. If women do not have an escort or not wearing a veil, they can get arrested or receive a beating. Usually, it is other women who do the beating and arresting. The female police force in ISIS is known as the al-Khansaa

“June 9, 2014- Monday night into Tuesday, militants seize Mosul’s airport, its TV stations and the governor 's office. ISIS frees up to 1,000 prisoners.” (Editors, CNN). ISIS is the Islamic State In Syria they have taken over much of Syria along with other smaller countries bordering Syria. ISIS obtains most of its money Oil-smuggling operations, rapeing and pillaging small cities of the middle east and by doing that ISIS makes upward around 5 million dollars a day. ISIS also kidnaps young boys and forces them to become followers of their teachings and Islamic extremists “May 2014 - ISIS kidnaps more than 140 Kurdish schoolboys in Syria, forcing them to take lessons in radical Islamic theology.” (Editors, CNN). This act shows

Anne Speckhard tries to understand these young women in her article Brides of ISIS. She states “young Western women are slipping out of their bedrooms, giving silent farewells, and leaving heart-rending notes to their families apologizing for their sudden disappearances.” many stories of young adults disappearing to join men and women in ISIS are heard on news channels, it is becoming more frequent today. Head of FBI’s counterterrorism division, Micheal Steinbach says “ISIS is more aggressively recruiting women than any other terror group has, and is luring them by painting a false narrative about what life is like in Syria, we have seen everything from a female fighter--dedicated groups of women fighters--and those who have come over to support foreign fighters by marrying them." they are masters at manipulating their victims by offering a life better than where they are. They show them that they have a purpose in life and that is to fight for Allah and build a better world dominated by Islam. The young women are showered with compliments daily and promised wealth if they were to join ISIS. This mind manipulation can make any nineteen-year-old girl fall for. There is a pattern created where the men recruiting young girls are always in their late twenties or early thirties as it is easier to target young

Mothers are clearly an important influence in the article “Mothers of ISIS”. In all of the stories documented by these mothers, their child had kept in touch with them despite what was happening around them. However, just because they had close connections with their mother towards the beginning of their journey, does not mean they were close in the end. According it the the article, “The mother is extremely important in Jihadist Islam…..you have to ask her permission to go on Jihad or to say goodbye.” So this would explain why the recruitment fighters sought out for their mothers at the beginning of their journey. Most of the recruited seemed to not have active father figures in their lives which can lead them susceptible to other males as

In the case of the Chibok schoolgirls, this could mean $600,000 that Boko Haram does not have to pay to its new recruits.3 Imams capitalize on the situation by preaching an extreme version of Islamic teachings and telling Nigerians their government is weak and corrupt.12 Boko Haram takes full advantage of anti-Western sentiment, after planting these ideas in their head and then offering a fix all solution, they are able to recruit and train these young men and boys for activities ranging from errand running to suicide bombings. 13 The group has increasingly kidnapped teenage boys in northeastern Nigeria and “re-educated” them at Qur’anic schools often in Cameroon. The militants use untrained boys to gather intelligence and carry out the first wave of attacks on villages or barracks. When they gain experience, they join the second wave designed to overwhelm the security forces after the first wave weakens their positions and morale. Boko Haram also appears to be focusing on Cameroon for its voluntary recruitment of men.14 With the increase of involuntary recruits and non-Nigerian recruits Boko Haram may be having trouble recruiting within its own state due to a