How can one determine that they want to be a “free strong woman” and it’s just not working out for them that the thought becomes “I’ll join IS to be a free strong woman” is not at all questionable for a psych test? – PB/TK
ISIS Using Feminism to Lure Australian Women into Becoming ‘Jihadi Brides’|5:18 pm, February 12, 2017
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.
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