Life as a woman oppressed under Sharia is exceedingly grim. Apparently the only way a woman can gain “equality” with men is through taking up jihad, sometimes even including blowing herself up as a “martyr.” The prospects for some of these suicide-bomber and knife-wielding women, according to the article below, are actually better than for other women, who face lives of unremitting torturous oppression and cruelty. Also, women take up jihad as a result of abuse:
Dr. Nancy Kobrin, a fellow of the American Center for Democracy, psychoanalyst, Arabist and counter-terrorism expert, attributed knife wielding by female jihadists to their having been abused as women in the Islamic shame/honor culture.
Once again, the silence is deafening from feminists. Palestinian men are deeply offended over this male-female “equality” in martyrdom: “women getting more publicity shames Palestinian men into committing greater violence.”
“Women and Jihad: The Motivation of Female Suicide Bombers,” by Greer Fay Cashman, Jerusalem Post, February 6, 2017:
Female suicide bombers were relatively unknown till the second intifada that began in September 2000.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a senior lecturer in the department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, said Sunday that he had been surprised to discover that the perpetrator of an explosion in the bus in which he was traveling was a woman.
Fortunately, he suffered only slight injuries and was able to take care of them himself. This was the first time that a woman had been involved in a suicide attack, he said. Casting his mind back after the incident, he remembered having seen her wearing a blue velvet dress – a garment worn only at weddings. “She was dressed for a wedding with shaheeds [‘martyrs”] in heaven.”
Kedar, an officer in IDF Military Intelligence for 25 years, was speaking at the Begin Heritage Center at the launch of the Gefen Publishing House book Women and Jihad by Rachel Avraham, a news editor and political analyst for Jerusalem Online, the English language Internet edition of the televised Channel 2 News.
“Women are not supposed to blow themselves up,” Kedar said. They are supposed to stay at home and give birth – “preferably to boys” – and care for their families. Blowing themselves up goes against the grain of Islamic society – at least it used to.
Moderator David Bedein, whose Center for Near East Policy Research was a co-sponsor of the event, showed clips taken several years ago of interviews with Palestinian female would-be suicide bombers who had survived, been treated in Israeli hospitals and incarcerated. At the time of the interviews, there were more than a hundred such women, said Bedein. Today they are all free, having been included in the 2011 exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit, he stated.
In the interviews, the women expressed no remorse or regret. They had felt blessed just before embarking on their missions, because they were about to meet Allah and would see the martyrs in paradise. One woman, who had been badly burned and been treated and nursed back to health in Soroka-University Medical Center in Beersheba, had returned to the same hospital with an explosive belt strapped to her body. She was intercepted by security personnel. Some of the women were aggressive, saying that Palestine would be part of the large Islamic state. Others expressed admiration for al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and said that they hoped that all Arabs would be like them. One woman said: “The base of the conflict between Jews and Palestinians is a religious struggle.”
The faces of all the women, including the most highly educated, shone with a religious radiance that spoke of the depth of their indoctrination.
Minister-without-Portfolio Ayoub Kara said that he has made a study of extremism, and while he has not yet found a solution, it is essential for Israel to cooperate with the Saudi-Arab coalition. He lamented the fact that the Saudis won’t make a move in that direction until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.
Libyan-born Dr. Yitzhak Ben Gad, a former Israeli consul-general in Chicago and Miami, while not discounting religious fervor as a springboard for female terrorists, said there were also other factors: a miserable life, the knowledge that sooner or later she will be killed in “honor” crime by a male family member; and revenge for real or imagined suffering.
Dr. Nancy Kobrin, a fellow of the American Center for Democracy, psychoanalyst, Arabist and counter-terrorism expert, attributed knife wielding by female jihadists to their having been abused as women in the Islamic shame/honor culture. “Violence is embodied by female suicide bombers,” said Kobrin. The female is at the eye of the political terrorism storm. Incidents of domestic violence in Palestinian society, serve as “a red flag and a ticking time bomb,” she warned. “The need to hate and to have an enemy is in place by age three,” declared Kobrin “It is a rage that exceeds murder itself. There is a need not just to kill but to obliterate and annihilate – something that the West can’t understand.”
Quoting from Avraham’s book, Kobrin said that female suicide bombers receive eight times more media publicity than male suicide bombers.
Avraham stated that no act of terrorism is spontaneous. They are all carefully planned, and more than the desire to actually harm Israelis is the terrorists’ goal to attract publicity for their cause. Without publicity, it’s as if the act of terrorism did not happen, she said.
She conceded that while there are Palestinian moderates, most are too afraid to express their true opinions. “We don’t know what Palestinian women are really thinking, because they are afraid of deviating from the norms of their society.”….

Annie Oakley says
Back when the “Ask the Imam” was up & running, I used to wander through it to get a better grasp of the beliefs behind their actions. Moslems would send in questions & answers posted. The site was broken down by topic, too, for convenient searching. I wish it was still active or at least archived but I can’t find it.
One moslem woman (who was apparently contemplating physical jihad) asked the imam what rewards were available to moslem women who died as jihadists. The woman pointed out the variety of delights promised to make jihadists but found little or no discussion of what she could expect as her eternal reward for murdering in the name of allah.
The imam responded that the reward for women who died as jihadists would be an eternity with the same husband they had on Earth but in Paradise, he’d be able to satisfy her sexual desires.
I still laugh when I think of the dismal picture that reply painted about what must be the uniformly-low quality of islamic marital relations from the women’s point of view. That’s probably why female suicide bombers are so rare…..an eternity in islamic Hell is preferable!
I’m laughing……laughing…..laughing!
quota raven says
To Annie Oakley, who sez, “I’m laughing……laughing…..laughing!”
Me, too, Annie! What a drag it must be to be married to an Islamist, non?!
Cheers!
quota raven
Shalom says
“One woman, who had been badly burned and been treated and nursed back to health in Soroka-University Medical Center in Beersheba, had returned to the same hospital with an explosive belt strapped to her body”.
This sickening paragraph reminds me of a similar piece in Brigitte Gabriel’s book Because they Hate” she saw Arab women being nursed back to health in Israel and would hear them mutter how much they would like to return and kill Jews.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Oh, great post Annie!
This is too rich. Into the bargain these women don’t have choice, either, in whom they marry. Then their FGM makes intercourse downright painful with awful sequellae: UTIs, terrible kidney disease, hideous.
Now see: I can understand why the women are so mad. However…kinda displacing the object of their wrath tho’, am I right?
gravenimage says
Wow–I’m *already* in paradise! So are many Infidel women, actually…
Annie, I agree with you about “Ask Imam”–grim, but very enlightening stuff.
And the site has *not* gone away–you can find it here:
http://www.askimam.org/
I wan’t able to find the specific question you cite, above–the site has an abysmal search engine–but here he is, condoning using non-Muslim women as sex slaves under Islam:
http://askimam.org/public/question_detail/17032
Angemon says
That’s islamic gratitude for you…
Troybeam says
Which is why Muslims are screened in an area that scans for bombs, Israel knows who the enemy is yet they will give medical care regardless, No matter how much Muslims hate Israel they always run towards Israel for medical care.
gravenimage says
Yes–this case was perhaps the most appalling of all. This is Islam in action.
Troybeam says
Islam is using women to blow up targets so that they can restore honor to the family on any number of real or perceived dishonor brought by the female. What better way for a man who did not want his wife any longer than to claim she dishonored him, stoning, beheading or blowup a woman who according to Islam are less than the dirt they walk upon and cattle are held in higher esteem.
Islam know no bounds when it comes to human sacrifice be man, woman or child all that matters is kill the infidel and restore honor via 1400 plus years mentality.
Custos Custodum says
Many years ago, a “Palestinian” woman was discovered by her husband to have had an affair.
The cuckolded husband and the paramour met to try and find a mutually face-saving solution to the situation. Finally, the two men agreed that the woman should become a suicide bomber to regain her and the family’s honor, and this apparently happened.
Walter Sieruk says
The phenomena of females who are jihad suicide /homicide bombers is tragic, sad, yet t interesting in a negative sort of way. The reasons for the delusional and murderous behavior by brainwashed, girls and women is the mind programming inflected on them by the Muslims clerics, as the imams, who keep telling them lines and lies. Such as “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise” and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s some strange kind of “We.” For the reader might ,very well ,notice the those same Muslim clerics who so thoroughly mind indoctrinate them into actually wanting to become human bombs are never, ever, the ones who strap bombs vest on themselves and then go out and blow themselves up in a suicide bombing. Those Islamic clerics just mind condition and then manipulate them to become, literally, dangerous to self and others by engaging in murderous bombs attacks. Ten the same Muslim clerics sit home safe all the while the deadly bombing are going on. Therefore those Islamic clerics who use those girls and women as stooges for the jihad are both despicable and cowardly.
In addition, Islam gives female be they girls or women, little to no value or worth because Islam because is, in essence, a religion of extreme misogyny. Nevertheless, the Muslim clerics and the jihadist leaders of different jihad organizations will not hesitate to use girls and women for the advancement of their jihad agenda for Islam. How Ironic. How unconscionable! How callous! They are so very wicked.
Stan Lee says
Martyrdom is a path taken by widows, after becoming widowed, which then they are not recognized in their communities. It causes them to be desperate as unrecognized, and many become candidates for martyrdom.
mortimer says
Rachel Avraham points out that Palestinian women cannot express their real thoughts.
Whenever Muslims talk to one another or to non-Muslims, there is a reason from them to misrepresent themselves, either as practicing to fellow Muslims or as secular to Western non-Muslims.
Do Muslims ever feel free to express themselves openly and honestly?
Dan King says
Do the female martyrs get 72 male virgins to rape in hell?
gravenimage says
What motivates female jihad-martyrdom suicide bombers?
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Many Muslim women are just as fanatical as the men; and some have run afoul of Shari’ah–often accused in sexual matters–and are told that blowing themselves up is the only way to avoid hell, or being “Honor killed” by their family or “community”.
More:
Minister-without-Portfolio Ayoub Kara said that he has made a study of extremism, and while he has not yet found a solution, it is essential for Israel to cooperate with the Saudi-Arab coalition. He lamented the fact that the Saudis won’t make a move in that direction until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.
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Since the “Palestinians”–Hamas and Fatah both–seek the out and out destruction of Israel, this “cooperation” is never going to happen, and savvy Israelis should not expect it to.
dumbledoresarmy says
The only way to be *sure* of getting to ‘paradise’ is to slay and be slain jihad fi sabil allah.
Now: remember that mohammed said that the majority of the denizens of *hell* would be women.
Rosemary Sookhdeo, wife of ex-Muslim Patrick Sookhdeo, did a huge – academic, and rigorous – study of the lot of Muslim women in Britain.
One of the points she makes is that although they may not know as much about their religion, formally, as the men, they know all about the ‘torments of the grave’, hell, etc. Lots of fear there. Sheer indoctrinated terror.
Now… they are either dependent on a *child* or other kin becoming a shaheed and potentially interceding to get them exempted from said torments; OR they can .. Go Jihad themselves.
It’s not so much that they are prompted (as the men are) by a desire for endless *pleasure*… we already know that they are NOT promised 72 endlessly-horny perpetually-erect hot guys who know *exactly* how to pleasure a woman. … what is driving them. instead, is the fear of endless *pain* in torments of the grave + Hell.
They are seeking… not pleasure, but simply a prospect of the absence of ‘pain’.
gravenimage says
Spot on, DDA.