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Syria: Female jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” set up jihad training camp in world’s oldest Byzantine church

Apr 10, 2015 10:50 am By Robert Spencer

female-jihadists-training-camp“We came out to fight for our religion and our country. We came out to train women to be the same as men, to defend their rights if they are attacked by that evil tyrant [Bashar al-Assad] and his soldiers and whoever follows him.” Empowering women by teaching them how to murder Infidels efficiently. Imagine the outcry if some “Christian terrorist” group set up a terror training camp on the site of an ancient mosque. But no one will take any notice of this. “Syria: Female Jihadists set up anti-Assad training camp in world’s oldest Byzantine church to ’empower women,'” by Gianluca Mezzofiore and Arij Limam, International Business Times, April 10, 2015 (thanks to Lookmann):

A group of Syrian female jihadists has apparently established a training camp in the world’s oldest Byzantine church near Aleppo (Darat Izza)”to empower women to be the same as men” in the fight against embattled president Bashar al-Assad, according to a video that emerged online.

The footage, which could not be independently verified by IBTimes UK, depicts around 45 black-clad AK-47-wielding women marching towards the church of Saint Simeon Stylites, located in northwest Aleppo, while shouting out the takbir (Allahu Akbar) and other religious slogans.

As they reach the Unesco World Heritage site the women are seen standing, military-style in rows and responding to the commander, who then speaks to the camera about the training camp.

“We came out to fight for our religion and our country. We came out to train women to be the same as men, to defend their rights if they are attacked by that evil tyrant [Bashar al-Assad] and his soldiers and whoever follows him,” she says.

No affiliation to any jihadist group such as the Islamic State (Isis) or al-Qaeda-linked Nusra front appear in the video.

Another female fighter says “I am now on the outskirts of Aleppo and we have trained 45 sisters in marking and shooting. And after a while, by the will of God, we will be in the heart of Idlib, and after that in Daraa, and after that in the centre of Sham [Syria].”

“We learnt shooting, and assembling weapons technically, and various other things,” says another jihadist. “This is so we stand in one line shoulder to shoulder with our sons and the men in the battlefields, because the role of the woman is no less important than that of the man.”

The 5th century Church of Saint Simeon is renowned as the site of the pillar of St. Simeon Stylites, a hermit monk who perched himself atop the 15m tall pillar for 37 years, preaching to the crowds two times a day. The remains of the pillar can still be seen today. It was designated as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2011.

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  1. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 11:07 am

    They might ACTUALLY be men.
    Muhammad reportedly dressed in women’s clothes — I suspect during the heat of a battle to escape.

    • Charli Main says

      Apr 10, 2015 at 12:16 pm

      I always thought Mohammed dressed in women´s clothes when he had sex with his boyfriends.

      • Jay Airahs says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 1:21 pm

        Good one Charli Main
        I believe that our comments riled up anti-West Justin

      • abad says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 9:09 pm

        LOL But chances are you’re probably right

      • Hayden says

        Apr 11, 2015 at 4:15 am

        Which is actually historically accurate, except said “boyfriend” was generally a prepubescent child.

  2. bobm says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 11:20 am

    evil incarnate

  3. Ricky Black says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 1:03 pm

    Those women better have four witness’s or it doesn’t count… LOL

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 10, 2015 at 10:20 pm

      Especially because I notice that these women look a whole lot prettier than last batch of niqab tent women posted on Jihad Watch. In addition that one in the middle seems to be looking for a date because she has some sort of seductive dance step going on there to entice the jihardi guys.

  4. Jay Airahs says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    The definition of a tent city.

    • Anna says

      Apr 10, 2015 at 2:19 pm

      The black death-shroud wearers also remind me of Darth vader, or some Hammer house horror villains. Brrr..don’t want to meet them especially on a dark night !

  5. Donovan Nuera says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    I appreciate Jihad Watch for reporting on the ongoing genocide of ancient Christian communities in the Near and Middle East and the continued unopposed destruction of ancient churches and basilicas. It will not be mentioned at my local church, that is for sure. The US media barely reported the siege of Ma’loula and the kidnapping of the nuns from their convent. Or the killing of priests and nuns in Mosul. Our current Administration barely says a word. We have to rely on Kim Kardashian’s reported future trip this year back to her family’s homeland to commemorate the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide to even shed light on continued discrimination and mistreatment by the Turk muslims under Sultan Ergodan (it might be Mrs. Kardashian’s single most redemptive act in her career if the publicity of her tour sparks outcries from the local muslims….I hope she doesn’t cancel the trip….but doesn’t bring Kanye as he will insult the Armenian Christians in some selfish and oafish way, I am sure). As for the earlier post about how the US did not come to the aid of the Armenians in 1915; we did not have anything resembling an army as it was still peacetime and Americans were going to re-elect Wilson mostly due to the sentiment that we were not going to get involved in the war in Europe. I think we had maybe 30 machine guns for the whole Army arsenal and our biggest general, Pershing, was chasing Pancho Villa around in armed automobiles. To launch an independent attack on the Ottoman empire would have made Gallipoli look like a walk in the park. That said, we are too worried about kissing Ergodan’s butt to make a loud and definitive statement calling out Turkey’s past genocidal crimes. They are the derelict and sabotaging brother of the NATO alliance.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 10, 2015 at 4:57 pm

      I hadn’t heard that about Kim Kardashian, Donovan—although I knew the Kardashians were of Armenian decent. I am no fan—I find her vapid at best—but Kim Kardashian has a huge following, and if she can get educate some people about the horror of the Armenian Genocide, I will very much consider it a point in her favor.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 10, 2015 at 5:00 pm

        Sloppy editing—I had intended to remove the word “get”.

      • voegelinian says

        Apr 12, 2015 at 1:47 pm

        Unless I see overwhelming evidence to the contrary, I will assume Kim Kardashian is no less of a dhimmi than the Armenian-American airhead talking head who co-hosts the “Young Turks” You Tube news channel — in their slyly media-savvy and glossy way regularly applying lip gloss to the ugly pig of Islam — along with Cenk Uygyr, a canny, smarmy pundit who uses his “ex-Muslim” and “atheist”, street cred to bolster his unctuously Westernized persona while deftly manipulating & massaging our own PC MC memes in favor of Islam like a whore fondling the testicles of her happily hapless client.

        More on Cenk Uygur and the Young Turks:

        http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2014/12/jihad-of-tube-cenk-uygur-of-young-turks.html

  6. bullahuakbar says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    What an irony.This is apparently about empowering women, but they are all dressed in full body veils. Also how are they even supposed to fight in that dress. It simply doesn’t make sense, but who said Islam makes any sense.

    • Lioness says

      Apr 11, 2015 at 10:03 am

      Not only they can’t fight wearing those body garbage bags, but they cab’t drive, walk streight without bumping into a tree, eat or drink or breath. And it will get worse when the temperature there hits 100 in a few weeks.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    Muslim males will brainwash females to use a exploit them as tools for the jihad. Still. these same Muslim man will never accept women as equal to themselves. Islam always has and always will oppress both girls and women. For Islam is a religion of misogyny.

  8. yohanan says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    Jihadi respect for other’s ancient heritage sites is at best reuse for their Islamic religious and military needs. And at worst destruction and looting.

    BTW there is an informative entry on the Church_of_Saint_Simeon_Stylites in the en-wiki …

  9. gerard says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 6:42 pm

    “5th century Church of Saint Simeon”
    Another reminder that these “Muslim lands” were once Christian…

  10. Oliver says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    I thought that (a) the battlefield belongs to men ( so they can get the virgins or raisins or whatever)r when they get killed-may it be soon, and many of them.

    But, I had also read that (long before this-in fact, before the Yom Kippur War) that the PLO (and Fatah- the forerunners/ancestors of Abbas’s group, with whom,as per Nobabam, “Israel can live with”, had training camps for women –so that they could try and murder Jews.

  11. gerard says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    ” the role of the woman is no less important than that of the man.”
    So why are they imitating the men?

  12. gravenimage says

    Apr 10, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    Syria: Female jihadis screaming “Allahu akbar” set up jihad training camp in world’s oldest Byzantine church
    …………………………….

    I’m sickened by this abuse of this venerable church by these Mohammedan thugs.

    More:

    “We came out to fight for our religion and our country. We came out to train women to be the same as men, to defend their rights…
    …………………………….

    As though taking over a peaceful church and using it as a barracks has anything to do with “defense”…

    More:

    Empowering women by teaching them how to murder Infidels efficiently.
    …………………………….

    Very true. The idea that this is “empowerment” is repulsive.

    More:

    The footage, which could not be independently verified by IBTimes UK, depicts around 45 black-clad AK-47-wielding women marching towards the church of Saint Simeon Stylites, located in northwest Aleppo, while shouting out the takbir (Allahu Akbar) and other religious slogans…

    The 5th century Church of Saint Simeon is renowned as the site of the pillar of St. Simeon Stylites, a hermit monk who perched himself atop the 15m tall pillar for 37 years, preaching to the crowds two times a day. The remains of the pillar can still be seen today. It was designated as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 2011.
    …………………………….

    I studied this historic church and its origins while at university. To see it now…

  13. El says

    Apr 11, 2015 at 12:50 am

    They must be beyond insane, do they not fry in the heat? Seriously the lack of vitamin D must be getting to their heads!

    • mortimer says

      Apr 11, 2015 at 1:31 am

      Forget the heat under the niqab. There’s no electricity and no water treatment. Water-borne illnesses will massacre them shortly when the summer heat breeds virulent, deadly infections.

  14. george says

    Apr 11, 2015 at 3:03 am

    Looking at that lot you can understand why the “men” spend so much time away raping and murdering. I would be angry too if that’s all I had to go home to. <:o)

  15. duih_swami says

    Apr 11, 2015 at 4:50 am

    The wrestler C.M. Punk once said, ‘I love a crazy chick’…Well, there’s a whole lot of them in this group. I wonder how many men are lurking under those covers? There’s no way to tell without a photo ID and a score card…

  16. duh_swami says

    Apr 11, 2015 at 5:30 am

    From post above…Can anyone dumping on Justin name a time or event where the U.S. stood against muslim aggression?

    I’m not sure what is meant by, ‘stood against’, and Muslim aggression is an unknown phenomena…Mahoundians are never aggressive, it is they who are always victims of aggression …Mahoundians are always innocent, even when they are not…
    Action against Mahoundians were taken by the founding fathers when they invaded Libya to put a stop to Islamic abuses…
    In modern times the US refuses to identify the enemy, so there is no ‘stand’ against it. If gov is not at war with Islam, then it cannot stand against Mahoundian aggression…That actually does not exist, for reasons stated above…

    • Betty says

      Apr 11, 2015 at 8:10 am

      why is it always the US is refusing to identify. it is not THE US. IT IS THE NUT JOB THAT SIT IN THE OVAL OFFICE. and his muslim brotherhood gang.

      • duh_swami says

        Apr 11, 2015 at 11:06 am

        The Prez is the Commander in Chief and represents the US…The US gov should not be confused with America…

  17. liamjq says

    Apr 11, 2015 at 6:09 am

    The remains of the pillar can still be seen today. …….oh yeah ..it’s sounds like a real tourism friendly place to me!!!….and best shut up about it as if one of these ignorant barbarians or their friends read this site the tower will be gone the same day ..and you’ll have had a hand in it

    • Betty says

      Apr 11, 2015 at 8:11 am

      oh well to bad.

  18. mortimer says

    Apr 11, 2015 at 12:35 pm

    Using this irreplaceable historic site for a terrorist center is a deliberate provocation meant to involve Americans on the ground.

    Send in the advanced drones.

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