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Europol report warns: “female jihadis are as ideologically motivated as their male counterparts”

Jun 14, 2019 1:30 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

According to a Europol report: “Islamic State’s recruitment and use of women to support its extremist cause could pave the way for more front-line roles for women in jihadi groups in the future.”

Women are deemed to be inferiors in accordance with the sharia and therefore are subject to being victims of degrading, and harmful practices such as: forced marriage, child marriage, FGM, honor murder, beatings and rape by husbands, the triple talaq, full coverings (Quran 24:31, Quran 33:59), lower inheritance, lower status in testimony,  guardianship programs etc.  But it is a mistake to let this abuse stop Westerners from understanding that Muslim women are still regarded as superior to infidels by the same Sharia that sanctions their inferiority to Muslim men: “Surely the vilest of animals in Allah’s sight are those who disbelieve “(Quran 8:55).

Take for example, the 26 year old “tiny terrorist Momena Shoma” whom Jihad Watch reported last week was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 42 years in jail by an Australian judge. Descriptions and pictures of Shoma instantly conjure up pictures like: ‘victim’, ‘helpless’, ‘innocent’, and therefore in need of help, but the judge did not buy into the victimhood narrative that often accompanies jihadist females. Shoma was convicted for trying to murder her “homestay host in his suburban Melbourne house with a kitchen knife she’d brought in from Bangladesh”. She stabbed him in the neck, with intent to murder him, as he took an afternoon nap with his 5 year old daughter.  Shoma with her deceivingly innocent look and inferior status as a woman, nonetheless adhered to her Islamic supremacist ‘pride’ as she “refused to stand in the dock, handcuffed, shackled and staring unflinchingly ahead through the slit of her black niqab.”

In another example, Sri Lanka, banned  all face coverings “after police found several women suspected of having aided the Easter terror attacks. Jihadist women are both victims and perpetrators and they are equally dangerous as male jihadists. It is already difficult for Westerners to wrap their heads around the hateful, jihadist mindset, let alone imagining a young, docile-looking woman in a burqa being as committed a jihadist as her counterpart male.

In the 34-page report Women in Islamic State Propaganda, Europol said “female jihadis are as ideologically motivated as their male counterparts and their sense of empowerment lies in contributing to the building of an Islamic state.”

Understanding the threats posed by female jihadists is paramount to Western homeland security, especially given the umpteen Leftist so-called ‘human rights’ proponents who are advocating for the return of Islamic State brides and their children to the West. These female jihadists do not view Western countries as their “home” but as enemy soil in which they must conquer by continuing to wage their bloody jihad against citizens, once arriving back, after successfully playing their victimhood role.

Recall teen jihadist Shamima Begum….

In an interview with the Times, Ms Begum, who married an IS fighter, showed little remorse for her involvement with the terror group and said she was not fazed by seeing “beheaded heads” in bins. “I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago,” she said.

When Begum was barred from returning to the UK, she blasted the country for “failing to show her courtesy”. As Robert Spencer pointed out, it was because she “takes for granted her superiority as a Muslim, “the best of people” (Qur’an 3:110), and the inferiority of the non-Muslims, “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6), and the concomitant fact that the non-Muslims owe her deference.”

Leftists cannot circumvent their own arrogance. They cannot believe that a Muslim, a young female one at that, could possibly hate them enough to want them dead; so they continue along–in willful blindness–to be used and manipulated to the detriment of whole societies. And they do it in the name of “diversity” and “tolerance”.

Europol’s report about Islamic State female jihadists “comes amid concerns about the risk posed by foreign fighters, including women, returning to their homes in Europe after the fall of the self-styled Islamic State caliphate in Syria and Iraq.”

“Report: Europol Details Islamic State Demand for More Female Jihadists”, Breitbart, June 14, 2019:

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Islamic State’s recruitment and use of women to support its extremist cause could pave the way for more front-line roles for women in jihadi groups in the future, the European Union’s police agency said in a report published Friday.

In the 34-page report entitled Women in Islamic State Propaganda, Europol said “female jihadis are as ideologically motivated as their male counterparts and their sense of empowerment lies in contributing to the building of an Islamic state.”

It concludes that “numerous examples” of women, who either carried out extremist attacks or were arrested preventively, “prove that women are willing to use violence if the ideology allows them to do so. For now, it is not yet their role, but this balance may easily shift according to the organization’s strategic needs and developments on the ground,”

The report comes amid concerns about the risk posed by foreign fighters, including women, returning to their homes in Europe after the fall of the self-styled Islamic State caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

Europol Executive Director Catherine De Bolle said that 15% people convicted on “jihadi terrorism charges” in the EU in 2018 were women.

The report’s authors studied propaganda targeting women, but also mentioned women who take active roles in Islamist combat, saying they were sometimes used to shame men into taking part in the group’s armed struggle.

The report cited an example from an Islamic State publication that praised three women who attacked a police station in Mombasa, Kenya, in 2016 and asked what was wrong with men who had “laid down their swords.”….

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  1. Ravi says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    Islamic feminism Ïf men can blow up themselves we too can and may be we can do it better”. Alyssa Milano are you cheering or not?

    • Leslie Fish says

      Jun 15, 2019 at 5:38 am

      What do women get out of being Jihadis? Will they get 72 pretty boys in Muslim heaven? They certainly don’t get decent treatment on Earth.

      • Ravi says

        Jun 15, 2019 at 5:50 am

        Sorry even in death women are not equal in Islam, the women will probably granted the privilege of becoming one of the 72 ‘Hurs’ (Sound so much like hos) to a crazed Jihadi who blew himself up.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 1:44 pm

    An ‘Islamic Stockholm syndrome’ would explain the existence of female enthusiasm for jihadism … the teaching that jihad is the most important action in Islam … better than prayer.

    Muslim women adopt the views of their persecutors (Muslim men) in order to please them and stop their beatings. Mohammed’s system of wife-beating takes advantage of the natural vulnerabilities of women in order to dominate and enslave them.

    Islam has great contempt for women:

    – Muhammad’s last words on women during his farewell speech:
    – God allows you to put them in separate rooms and to beat them but not with severity. If they refrain from these things they have the right to their food and clothing with kindness. Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control of their persons.

    • Phil Copson says

      Jun 14, 2019 at 3:02 pm

      “….An ‘Islamic Stockholm syndrome’ would explain the existence of female enthusiasm for jihadism …”
      ————————————————————————————-
      People who are brutally mistreated can either (A) recognise that it’s wrong and resolve never to treat others in that way, or (B) become brutalised themselves, and decide to treat others even worse as an act of revenge.

      (A) is somebody like Ayaan Hirsi Ali who is sufficiently intelligent and humane to realise that life is better outside Islam (and that islam is a pack of lies anyway), and (B) are the Momena Shumas/Shamima Begums/Linda Sarsours etc who can’t wait to ruin everything they touch.

      It’s not an exclusively islamic thing – but Islam is purpose-made for inculcating inhumanity.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 14, 2019 at 8:34 pm

        Spot on, Phil. I was abused as a child, and vowed not just never to harm others myself, but to recognize the signs when I way them–which I believe led me to recognize the threat of Islam early.

        Not everyone reacts to abuse like this, though, as I well know.

        • GreekEmpress says

          Jun 14, 2019 at 9:17 pm

          Graven,
          I am so sorry that happened to you as a child—but it also made you who you are today. I have enjoyed reading your posts and it’s obvious that you are insightful, learned, and a person of strong character.

          God Bless you.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 14, 2019 at 9:22 pm

          Thank you so much, GreekEmpress.

          (typo in my post above–that should have read “…but to recognize the signs when I see them…”

        • Rufolino says

          Jun 15, 2019 at 3:44 am

          Very interested by your comment Graven.

          I was beaten and abused by a father who hated me. My reaction has been more ambivalent unfortunately.

          Compassion, yes, but I always have to keep lurking rage in check.

          It has enabled one to perceive the truth about Islam (and other things.)

        • J D S says

          Jun 15, 2019 at 9:39 pm

          There’s plenty of stupidity to go round..so why shouldn’t women in Islam get their share..God sure must be enlarging hell to accommodate so many Muslims both men and women..
          At the last day every knee will bend and recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 16, 2019 at 1:21 am

          Rufolino, I am saddened to hear that this happened to you. But glad it has made you conscious of other injustices.

          As for anger, this can either be terribly destructive, or a good thing if used judiciously, as against evils.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 1:46 pm

    This above EURPOL report and warning is a strong reminder that a clear reiteration of the following message is very important

    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. The Bible informs its reader that “The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 1:58 pm

    This top Jihadwatch article does mention FGM. Therefore it’s deemed necessary to repeat the following essay on that cruel ,brutal Islamic practice.

    This malicious ,heartless and vicious Islamic tradition of female butchery which some Muslims so inappropriately call “female circumcision’ has spread like an infectious disease , or a plague , even to the USA. This heinous Islamic custom of misogyny has been exposed in the book by Brigitte Gabriel which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED. For on page 178 it reveals to the reader that “One of the most devastating practices to young girls of the Islamic world is female genital mutilation. Young girls have their clitoris removed without anesthesia…”

    Indeed, they must be stopped !

  5. BVC says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 4:00 pm

    Finally, an EASY question to answer! Why would women participate in becoming suicide bombers? Three simple words, “misery loves company”. Jealous of the western worlds women and the rights they have, it is easier for them to take up the cause than it is for them to leave the faith that abuses them. Either way it’s a death sentence, but by helping the men achieve a global islamic state there are no women that have it better than they.
    The green-eyed monster of envy can cause people to do some pretty drastic things, and (my belief) that’s just what we are seeing here.

  6. Keys says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    Outstanding and timely post by Christine Douglas-Williams, and beautifully written. Just a pleasure to read.

    And a bonus to the topic at hand is this precious gem: “Leftists cannot circumvent their own arrogance.” So true in my experience ! Just watch them !

  7. Paul N Silas says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    Not all women are sweet little Darlings! Remember that the Nazis had some bad-a$$ lady guards for example. Many Communist armies had/have female killers like the Vietcong!
    To paraphrase an old movie , (The Lord of War) ” A bullet fired by a woman is just as deadly as one fired by a man”

    • Ravi says

      Jun 15, 2019 at 7:42 am

      Merkel is a fine by product of Marxist East Germany. She is leading the western Jihad and enlisted million odd Islamic filth in just one month.

  8. tim gallagher says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    Islam treats women as second class beings. Didn’t Muhammad say women had half the intelligence of men? These Muslim women are pathetic. They have been brain washed into considering themselves to be second rate in every way and, basically, breeding machines. But, hey, according to Islam, that’s what god (Allah) said. These female servants of the extremely misogynistic version of god, Allah, are pathetic (for serving their enslaver) but extremely dangerous people. Women should all wake up and leave misogynistic Islam behind. After all, Islam really does treat them like dirt.

  9. gravenimage says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    Europol report warns: “female jihadis are as ideologically motivated as their male counterparts”
    …………………….

    Grimly, this is true.

  10. Agha Ali Arkhan says

    Jun 14, 2019 at 9:58 pm

    Some are worse than the men. Some provoke the men.

  11. Nietzsche says

    Jun 15, 2019 at 12:56 am

    How on earth are they able to shoot with those rags covering their eyes??

    • Jean (old) says

      Jun 15, 2019 at 6:56 am

      Nietzsche

      They can shoot just fine. Whether they can hit is another matter.

      but then, consider the crusaders: in full armor, some of them saw through a similar slit. It was part of their training to deal with this limitation of vision.

      They remained formidable opponents. Muslims feared the Templars greatly, reckoning that it took five of their warriors to bring down one Templar.

      To this day, muslim cowards still attack Westerners on the street in packs of four or five.

  12. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Jun 15, 2019 at 8:48 am

    These people are completely insane.. – ‘from cradle to grave’ as they say..

  13. mortimer says

    Jun 15, 2019 at 9:27 am

    C-W-D comes to the right conclusions: “Leftists cannot circumvent their own arrogance. They cannot believe that a Muslim, a young female one at that, could possibly hate them enough to want them dead; so they continue along … in the name of tolerance”.

    We cannot survive if we tolerate TERRORISM … “Turhibunna” (terrorize them) Koran 8.60.

  14. CRUSADER says

    Jun 15, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    All across the Muslim front in the West, there are females promoting the cause of Islam.

    This isn’t by happenstance….

    Seems very orchestrated!

  15. ninetyninepct says

    Jun 15, 2019 at 5:41 pm

    This exactly why face coverings should be banned except briefly when weather related. Cover your face waiting for a bus but remove it before getting on. Easy.

  16. Indiana Tom says

    Jun 15, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    I guess the women love being slaves. Of course they have been brainwashed since birth.

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