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Netherlands: University of Amsterdam “Jihadi Brides” researcher was Islamic State “cyber-jihadist”

Jan 19, 2017 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

How reliably to distinguish “extremists” from “moderates” no one in the West has yet figured out, but you’re a racist, bigoted Islamophobe if you point out the fact.

“Report: ‘Jihadi Brides’ Researcher at Dutch University Is Islamic State Sympathiser,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, January 19, 2017:

A researcher at the University of Amsterdam who helped produce a report on “Jihadi Brides” was an Islamic State “cyber-jihadist” herself, reports Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad.

Aysha Navest developed the study, “Chatting about marriage with female migrants to Syria”, alongside Annelies Moors, Professor of Contemporary Muslim Societies, University of Amsterdam, and Martijn de Koning, anthropologist, University of Amsterdam and Radboud University.

The paper presents an arguably sympathetic view of women who “see themselves as responsible for domestic life and attempt to normalise life under IS rule”, rejecting the so-called “tropes” of the jihadi bride who is either a victim of Islamist propaganda and online grooming by “unscrupulous men”, or a militant activist in her own right.

However, NRC claims to have uncovered evidence that Navest leads a double-life as an online “cyber-jihadist” herself, writing under the pseudonym “Ought Aicha” (Sister Aicha) on the Marokko.nl message forums.

The “Ought Aicha” account has made over 18,000 posts since 2006, many expressing Islamist sympathies. The account owner has expressed amazement at Muslims who dare to “criminalise” their brothers fighting for Islamic State, and praised Osama bin Laden “for protecting our Muslim community”.

A suicide bombing by an Islamic State fighter was dismissed as having only killed murtaddin (apostates) and Shi’ites (Muslims who follow a different branch of Islam than is practised in the Islamic State, which is Sunni).

NRC claims that Navest would not comment on whether the Marokko.nl account was hers, and her co-authors have stuck by their paper, claiming they saw no evidence of bias and that, in any case, “There are numerous examples of established anthropologists who are ideologically closely involved with their research or are themselves part of the research”….

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Filed Under: Featured, Internet jihad, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Moderate Muslims, Netherlands Tagged With: Aysha Navest


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  1. Peter Buckley says

    Jan 19, 2017 at 3:11 pm

    I have no worries for the Netherlands:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4024114/Anti-Islam-MP-Geert-Wilders-party-support-Holland-conviction-discrimination.html

    It is not a question of “if”, but “when”……

    • DFD says

      Jan 19, 2017 at 3:32 pm

      Peter Buckley says “….It is not a question of “if”, but “when”……”

      Same for Germany. If Merkel falls and the AfD wins, ‘they’ have a breathing space. The length of which depends on several factors, beginning with the, by now, thin patience of the Germans. If Merkel wins, by whatever means, it’ll be a short fuse, I think.

      I wonder about the UK though. Mind you, wherever it starts, it will spread rapidly. First to various localities, and from these further.

      • Peter Buckley says

        Jan 21, 2017 at 1:51 pm

        Its on it’s way:

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/21/koblenz-far-right-european-political-leaders-meeting-brexit-donald-trump

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 19, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    Jihadi Brides” are self-hating women who wish to be slaves for time and eternity. They are PERFECT examples of the ISLAMIC STOCKHOLM SYNDROME by which Muslim girls and women ESCAPE BEATINGS and victimization by CROSSING OVER to the ideology of the VICIOUS MALE MUSLIM PERPETRATORS who have SOCIOPATHIC IDEATION. The Muslim women who CROSS OVER by the ISLAMIC STOCKHOLM SYNDROME become as fanatical or even MORE fanatical than their male ‘owners’.

    Repeat: “Jihadi Brides” are self-hating women.

  3. Angemon says

    Jan 19, 2017 at 4:36 pm

    NRC claims that Navest would not comment on whether the Marokko.nl account was hers, and her co-authors have stuck by their paper, claiming they saw no evidence of bias and that, in any case, “There are numerous examples of established anthropologists who are ideologically closely involved with their research or are themselves part of the research”

    So f***ing what, you pedantic imbeciles? You’re not talking about some professor chronicling his learning of the tongue-clicking language of a Bushman tribe and ensuing initiation as a fully-fledged member of the tribe in a God forsaken, quasi-unmapped part of Africa, you’re talking about someone who, if the claim is true, considers herself at *war* with you on account of your religion (or lack thereof, which is even worse) and way of life. Get your heads out of your asses and realize that your paper is not the pressing issue here.

  4. Guest says

    Jan 19, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    The way they dress is just plain creepy

    • don vito says

      Jan 20, 2017 at 5:40 pm

      These women (?) are memorializing their togetherness in this picture. Difficult to distinguish the individuals though.

      • Terry says

        Jan 21, 2017 at 2:18 pm

        Don- I don’t think so. Well, only (my observation–and I have not seen my eye doctor in awhile) the ones

        Only the ones on the side of the car cannot be distinguished. In front of the car, to me, it looks like a full garbage bag, waiting for the trash pickup. (However, where I live, and in every place I have lived) leave the trash by the curb.

        Perhaps, probably, Muslims are different.

  5. Terry says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 7:45 pm

    The Iranians and Hezbollah are Shits–I mean Shiites- so, if the ISIS -directly or via Al Queida and ISIS bomb them, and kill them- and they get some of their soldiers killed doing so- I see it as a win/win for humanity.

    And, perhaps a Battle Of The Bulge type war- Sunnis (Iranian military; Islamic Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah against ISIS and Al Queida- and throw in the other 100 or so Anti-Assad groups.

    And let them kill each other.

  6. Terry says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 7:46 pm

    Forgot to add to the above- no great loss-if the two sides have that fight. Just leave Israel and the US out of it.

  7. Mahendra Singh says

    Jan 20, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    My God !!! They look like Goblins !
    Mohammad was born on Halloween night.

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