[Update 12 Feb 2015] Alongside the English-language Dabiq, ISIL has
launched a new magazine series in French, called Dâr al-Islâm; the
second issue came out today.
Neither number displays a single photograph of any women, whether veiled
or unveiled. Today’s issue
is devoted largely to lauding the murderer Amedy Coulibaly (whom they dub with
a nom de guerre, “Abu-`Abdallah
al-Ifriqi” -- i.e. ‘the African’).
Along with that, they publish a supposed interview with his consort, who
fled France and is now in Syria.
Not only do they not show her photo -- they do not even give her name,
whether the Franco-Maghrebi one of Hayat Boumedienne, or some Islamised
equivalent. Given what a twisted
path she has taken in her life, there could have been much material of
interest; but there is none, just
boilerplate generic propaganda.
And now:
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/05/26/isis-burns-woman-alive-for-refusing-extreme-sex-act-un-official-says
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| Sexy assassin Leila Khaled |
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/05/26/isis-burns-woman-alive-for-refusing-extreme-sex-act-un-official-says
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| La divine Bernadine |
The Islamic State has garnered much publicity over its treatment of non-Muslim women -- nay, has even sought the same, in its magazine Dabiq and in other public pronouncements. Such practices are historically not unknown in that part of the world -- an example at random:
The horrors inflicted on the
Armenians are some of the worst of
any war. … Kurdish tribesmen looted the columns of survivors, and carried off
marriageable girls slung over their saddles.
-- Nicole Pope & Hugh Pope, Turkey
Unveiled (1997), p. 43
What’s new is boasting about it on the world stage, and rubbing Western noses in it.
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| Amazonomachy |
~
In discussing the video of ISIL rule in Raqqah (Syria; now impacted by the airstrikes), we mentioned the curious detail that women and girls were almost nowhere to be seen. Indeed, the whole aura of that group oddly resembles that of bare-chested Putin and his eastern-European proto-fascist death-squad admirers, of unbridled hypermasculinism -- though, in the case of the Islamic State, without the leather-bar aesthetic that prevails among many of the Mad Max warriors in eastern Ukraine.
~
A reader of Le Figaro just posted this comment:
Les soldats du califat vont être
inquiets car les Emirats Arabes Unis envoient leurs avions avec la première
femme pilote de chasse ! comme les combattantes Kurdes : ils n'iront pas au paradis
s'ils sont tués par une femme ! bravo !
A bit of research confirmed this, in the case of the
Peshmerga:
المقتول على يد امرأة لا يدخل الجنة!
وجود
عدد من
النساء في
صفوف البشمرجا
يحظى باهتمام
اعلامي عالمي
واسع، وجزء
من الاخبار
والمقالات ادعت
ان قوات
داعش تخشى
هؤلاء النسوة
المقاتلات لان
مقاتلي داعش
يعتقدون ان
الموت على
يد امراة
سيمنع دخولهم
الجنة
And, confirmation of the UAE angle, along with portraits of the
lovely takfiricidal aviatrix:
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| I'm in your airspace ... messing with your martyrdom |
[Update] She is
quickly becoming something of a celebrity in the Arab world.
But before people start chattering about how enlightened the
UAE is, in allowing female combat-pilots, notice that her own family has
already disowned her:
[Update November 2015]
More fetching yet than Maryam al-Mansuri, is the Kurdish sharpshooter
Rehane, said to have slain no
fewer than a hundred men of ISIL.
(This motif echoes that of another centicidal hero, the
pre-Islamic poet al-Shanfarâ’, who swore he’d slay that number yet died having
dispatched but ninety-nine: until
one further foeman casually kicked the hero’s bleaching skull -- from which a
bone-splinter entered his foot, occasioning a lethal gangrene, thus posthumously
fulfilling the prophecy. -- Both
legends have about equal claim to credence.)
ISIL, in turn, claims to have beheaded her, offering the
following as visual proof:
~
Even before the emergence of
Islamic State, small numbers of women — mostly Europeans — began arriving in
parts of Syria as wives of foreign fighters, which "encouraged the
original image of Syria being a five-star jihad".
One online poster, Umm Ubaydah,
claims to have traveled alone to Syria to take care of her husband and fellow
Islamic State fighters. Three days after American reporter Steven Sotloff was
executed, one person asked on her Tumblr page, where she occasionally writes in
Swedish, what she thought of his execution. "I wish I did it," she
answered simply.
The recruitment of women defies the
conservative Muslim belief that a woman needs permission from her male guardian
to travel or marry. Recruiters insist that the obligation to live in the
caliphate trumps the requirement for permission.
Women formed the Khansa Militia, an armed morality squad whose job one
anti-Islamic State activist summed up as "detaining and whipping."
During one raid, the militia
detained several high school students and teachers for such transgressions as
wearing niqabs that were too
transparent, having visible eyebrows or wearing a hair clip under the hijab. Each one was whipped 30 times.
[Update 26 September 2014] The meme replicates:
There may, however, be less to all this, than meets the eye.
More, when I know more.
~
The whole affair is turning into a sort of amazonian-warrior porn. So meanwhile, enjoy these dick-stiffening images:
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| See my big gun? How big is yours? |
And even, with the decapitation motif so dear to ISIL itself:
For the story of a modern Judith:
http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article133193511/Die-Zwangs-Braeute-des-Islamischen-Staates.html
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Said Holofernes to
Judith, “You want a piece of me?”
She took him at his
word.
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http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article133193511/Die-Zwangs-Braeute-des-Islamischen-Staates.html
For a frenzied popular hypopornographic celebration of it
all:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=899264
[Update 26 September 2014]
Frauen wurden von den Kämpfern des
Islamischen Staats gerne auch vergewaltigt, versklavt oder zwangsverheiratet.
Die überflüssigen Männer mit ihrer gebrochenen Identität brauchen die rohe
Macht über die Frauen, die sie auch mit brutaler Gewalt gegenüber allen
demonstrieren, die nicht ihrem Weltbild angehören. Erschreckend ist, dass auch
junge Männer und einige Frauen aus dem Westen der alten religiösen Ideologie
verfallen, die auch die Geschlechterverhältnisse zementiert. Die Angst der
Männer vor neuen Beziehungen mit den Frauen scheint größer als der Tod zu sein.
Lieber sprengt man sich in die Luft, als gleichberechtigt mit unverhüllten
Frauen umzugehen
-- Florian Rötzer 26.09.2014
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/26/6845019/maryam-al-mansouri-uae-pilot-bombed-isis-praise-racist
The analysis is mostly excellent; but its justified critique of the killer-aviatrix frenzy wraps itself protectively in the epithets "racist" and "sexist" (even "misogynist") to characterize what is going on -- labels that are always safe to brandish. But the reality is quite otherwise. Those who gloat at the idea of Islamist fighters dying miserably beneath Maryam's missiles and bombs, under a supposedly (but falsely so supposed) Islamic doctrine concerning martyrdom, are sliming a religion, not a race -- something that's pretty cool to do on much of the Left (though they are more comfortable sliming the Catholics). And the whole Maryam-celebratory imagery of a woman humiliating men is clearly misandrist and autogynophilic, not misogynist.
It is also a bit mischievous; vide the incident in Tunisia, that launched the whole ill-starred Arab Spring.
~
Meanwhile, groups like Femen launch provocation after
provocation.
Such acts are comparable to that idiot preacher in (where else) Florida, threatening repeatedly to burn the Koran.
The next one is too gross to reproduce; but if you can stand to see how far these feminists will go (answer: No limit), here they are purportedly menstruating and defecating on the Islamic flag:
[link deleted, for safety's sake]
Since the flag itself contains the word for God, this goes far, far beyond those Danish cartoons. People may very well die as a direct result of such provocations. Ce sont des agentes provocatrices, pour ainsi dire.
~
[Update 4 October 2014] And now this:
[Update 15 October 2014] There is a mirror-image duality or (anti-)parallelism,
between the organizations Femen and ISIL:
each is at a stretch, to top yesterday’s atrocity with some new
one. It is grand guignol on the world stage, provocations that simply dare the rest of the world to react.
France has finally got a bit of gumption up, refraining
(supposedly) from continuing to fund terrorist groups via massive multimillion
euro ransoms (though that, only after having been “outed” by the NYTimes),
and purporting to join the actual fight against ISIL (though so far they don’t
seem to have done much).
Before the spectre of Femen, however, the Hollandaise socialos quake and
quiver.
Éloïse Bouton comparaît mercredi
devant la justice pour «exhibition sexuelle». En décembre 2013, elle avait fait intrusion seins nus dans
l'église de la Madeleine et simulé un avortement avant de souiller les lieux
d'urine.
Elle termine son «happening» à la
sauce Femen en urinant devant une assemblée interdite. Sur sa poitrine est
inscrit un message en référence au «manifeste des 343 salopes», en faveur de
l'avortement. «Noël est annulé! Du Vatican à Paris. Le relais international de
Femen contre les campagnes anti-avortement menées par le lobby catholique
continue, la sainte mère Éloïse vient
d'avorter de l'embryon de Jésus sur l'autel de la Madeleine», communique
alors le mouvement Femen sur les réseaux sociaux.
The mealy-mouthed charges here are merely for “exhibitionism”; but you can be certain that, had the
target of this vicious display been Judaism or Islam, the perpetrator would
already be in prison, denounced from all sides.
I tried looking up this story in Google News, but all it
returned were French accounts: the
anglophone media are so far apparently mum (or else for some reason
refuses to index the English media that do reference the story, content
to return zero rather than let
them have their say.
.
Not: “blurry”; but deliberately blurred.
[Update 20 December 2014] A “lone wolf” targeting women:
L'homme abattu aujourd'hui après
avoir agressé un policier à l'arme blanche au commissariat de Joué-lès-Tours
(Indre-et-Loire) était un islamiste connu de la DGSI pour "ses positions
radicales." L'homme était originaire du Burundi et avait des antécédents judiciaires.
De source policière, l'individu serait entré dans le commissariait avec une arme blanche et l'intention d'agresser les policiers. Il a hurlé "Allah Akbar" ("Dieu est le plus grand" en arabe), avant de blesser une femme policière au visage.
De source policière, l'individu serait entré dans le commissariait avec une arme blanche et l'intention d'agresser les policiers. Il a hurlé "Allah Akbar" ("Dieu est le plus grand" en arabe), avant de blesser une femme policière au visage.
-- Le Figaro
Update 16 Jan 2015] An interesting wife's-eye take, from
Madame Figaro:
[Update 26 January 2015] Today the Los Angeles Times reports that, in
ISIL-ruled Mosul, “Militants have instructed pregnant women that it is haram, or unholy, to give birth at a hospital, so they
have had to use midwives at home.”
This, however, is likely not out of some eco-friendly feminist-organic
concern for women’s traditions : concern over a male obstetrician having contact
with a female parturient may play
a role, as well as more pragmatic considerations of prioritizing available
resources:
"Entire hospitals have been
commandeered for the [jihadi] fighters," he said. "I tried to take my
son because he was sick to the hospital, but they said, 'Get out of here! This
is for fighters!' and they gave me 20 lashes of the whip."
At the same time,
ISIL is pushing front-and-center
a woman hitherto obscure:
Subterraneously beneath the confessional currents, and parallel to them (like the river
Styx), a deep contention over gender is playing itself out -- the more
obscurely, as in part unconscious
even to the combatants.
Thus, the Kurds frontpage their amazons -- too marginal to
affect the course of actual battle, but key on this other parallel plane -- and
ISIL replies with a Pasionaria of their own -- though one notably shopworn (not
a real warrior or even rabble-rouser, but a suicide-bomber -- and a failed one
at that).
That is not entirely
a move aimed at the Western media:
Salafi jihadis really do have a peculiar horror at the thought of Muslim
women in captivity.
[Update 6 February 2015]
Produced by ISIL’s Al-Khansaa
Brigade, the manifesto enumerates the ways Muslim women should behave in
ISIL-controlled territory. These ideas, originally written in Arabic, stand in
stark contrast to much of ISIL's rhetoric in English. Many European women
fighting with the group have emphasized the more "adventurous"
aspects of joining its cause. The guide's sober picture of what is expected of
Muslim women exposes as fabrications the social media accounts posted by many
Western female ISIL fighters. The treatise was disseminated in Arabic and not
in English, despite the presence of English speakers in the Al-Khansaa
Brigade.
[Update 1 March 2015] A lot of people found this
Dakota Johnson SNL skit almost unmouthably offensive. It's actually
pretty bland.
Indeed, to the extent that the sketch is deft, this relies
precisely on its decision to remain low-key, about a subject inherently
inflammatory, the reality being too over-the-top for satirical exaggeration.
It is not only in the lands of the Caliphate that the politics
of gender leaves something to be desired:
Vergewaltigungen werden im Osten
von Kongo-Kinshasa häufig verübt. Aber diesen Frühling nahmen sie in der
Provinz Orientale sprunghaft zu.
[Update 22 March 2015]
As you probably heard, the social-media mavens in ISIL have
just put out a kill list of 100
service members, complete with name, photos, and addresses. All in a day’s work for the
Islamic State. But here’s the
oddity:
Several women are included on the
list, but their faces in the photos were blurred.
If you pore through ISIS publications, you will notice that
women seldom appear in them: and
if they do, any hijabless face is blurred-out. (Oddly enough, politically-correct European publications
sometimes do the same thing; an
example here.) The reason
is, the Caliphate deems barefaced display an affront against female
modesty. (For an amusing account
of the contortions this leads to, read the account by Morten Storm of his
efforts to find a wife for Yemeni terror-chieftain Anwar al-`Awlaqi.) And, even though the whole point of the
hit-list is to get those people killed, and blurring the photo on a Wanted
poster is comically counter-productive, still, that is still a line they will
not cross: They’ll be happy to
kill you, ladies, but they won’t show your face.
[Update 23 March 2015]
[Update 31 March 2015]
ISIL just released the latest issue of Dabiq. It contains an article written by an
Arab Muslim woman, extolling the Caliphate as a terrific place to be a
girl. At one point, upbraiding men
who don’t join the Islamic State, she expresses mixed feelings about her
Kurdish warrior sisters, in this interesting imprecation:
“May Allah disfigure
the turbans of the PKK women,
yet they have more
manhood than your likes!”
[Update 1 April 2015]
http://www.nzz.ch/international/naher-osten-und-nordafrika/die-jihadistin-als-komplizin-opfer-oder-phantasie-1.18514369?extcid=Newsletter_01042015_Top-News_am_Morgen
[Update 5 Aug 2015]
[Update 21 Nov 2015]
[Update 1 June 2015]
Angling for Hillary Clinton’s endorsement, no doubt:
Irak: Daech autorise les femmes à
conduire à Mossoul
Rien dans l'islam n'interdit aux
femmes de conduire, assure un cadre djihadiste. Une façon de «ringardiser»
l'Arabie saoudite voisine, où prendre le volant de son véhicule reste prohibé
pour la gent féminine.
One reader suspects a less generous motive:
Ils pourront les former pour faire
des attentats à la voiture piégée.
[Update 30 June 2015]
To some extent, the public impression that violence against women is
more prominent in Daesh than in any other group, is skewed by the fact that,
whatever they do, they boast about and publicize. Meanwhile, in darker corners of the world, even worse
crimes are perpetrated by groups that shun the light of publicity. Here is just the latest:
[Update 5 Aug 2015]
In a You-Tube video of a militant Salafist demonstration in
Bonn, posted in February of 2015, the remarkable German convert and Hass-Prediger finishes his tirade by exhorting the onlookers: “The Jews say the Prophet [Muhammad]
left only girls. But no! He left men.” (He adds in Arabic:
khalaf rijâl.)
Meaning: Biologically,
the Prophet had, as a matter of historical fact, only daughters (that survived
infancy); but as a legacy, he left
men -- warriors.
[Update 10 Sept 2015]
Britain: Women terror suspects hit record levels because of Isil lure
[Update 21 Nov 2015]
The New York Times this morning provides an intimate
glimpse into the exciting life of the “Daesh dames”:
Dua had only been working for two
months with the Khansaa Brigade, the
all-female morality police of the Islamic State, when her friends were
brought to the station to be whipped.
The police had hauled in two women
she had known since childhood, a mother and her teenage daughter, both
distraught. Their abayas, flowing black robes, had been deemed too
form-fitting.
“Their abayas really were very tight. I told her it was their
own fault; they had come out wearing the wrong thing,” she said. “They were
unhappy with that.”
Dua sat back down and watched as
the other officers took the women into a back room to be whipped. When they
removed their face-concealing niqabs, her friends were also found to be wearing
makeup. It was 20 lashes for the abaya offense, five for the makeup, and
another five for not being meek enough when detained.
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|
Former member of the
Khansaa brigade,
dressed for success
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A reader comments:
What an odd article. I began it
expecting to feel sympathy, empathy, for these women. I want no part of the
vicious xenophobia now spreading throughout the West. I do understand that
humans are conditioned by culture and hard circumstance, but what I experienced
as I read was a growing impatience and irritation with the shallow, narrow,
passive, self-absorbed priorities these women reiterate.
Yazidi peoples are being massacred and their women and children taken into brutal slavery by their husbands' genocidal cult, and they miss Facebook and Evanescence; neighbors are being tortured and killed and their bodies hung in the square, and they're pleased that their future husband has nice eyebrows and provides air conditioning; they seem to join the Morality Police in order to get out of the house and have some power and money (I get that, but something's missing - real moral unease? Guilt rather than just social shame?); they were essentially collaborators. They miss personal freedoms like bikinis, but these are literate women and they sound oddly vague and ambivalent about the worldview of ISIS beyond its intersection with their own missed freedoms and pleasures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/middleeast/isis-wives-and-enforcers-in-syria-recount-collaboration-anguish-and-escape.html?&target=comments&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&modref=HPCommentsRefer&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0#commentsContainer
Yazidi peoples are being massacred and their women and children taken into brutal slavery by their husbands' genocidal cult, and they miss Facebook and Evanescence; neighbors are being tortured and killed and their bodies hung in the square, and they're pleased that their future husband has nice eyebrows and provides air conditioning; they seem to join the Morality Police in order to get out of the house and have some power and money (I get that, but something's missing - real moral unease? Guilt rather than just social shame?); they were essentially collaborators. They miss personal freedoms like bikinis, but these are literate women and they sound oddly vague and ambivalent about the worldview of ISIS beyond its intersection with their own missed freedoms and pleasures.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/world/middleeast/isis-wives-and-enforcers-in-syria-recount-collaboration-anguish-and-escape.html?&target=comments&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&modref=HPCommentsRefer&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0#commentsContainer
[Update 27 Oct 2015] “Former Model” speaks out!
Hanna Bohman, a.k.a. Tiger Sun,
joined the Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG) women's militia army of the People's
Defense Unit, known as the YPJ, in the Kurdish region of Syria.
How is it as a woman
fighting with the YPJ?
They're so ahead of us on gender equality. To get equal treatment we [in the West] have to protest and then laws are changed. Over there it is so equal, there is no conscious division, the women are naturally included and work with the men equally at every level—they're in the trenches, they take positions, sometimes they're the only ones fighting. It's just so equal that it's hard to explain. It's more of a matriarchal society, I never felt threatened by the men or objectified.
They're so ahead of us on gender equality. To get equal treatment we [in the West] have to protest and then laws are changed. Over there it is so equal, there is no conscious division, the women are naturally included and work with the men equally at every level—they're in the trenches, they take positions, sometimes they're the only ones fighting. It's just so equal that it's hard to explain. It's more of a matriarchal society, I never felt threatened by the men or objectified.
[Update Dec 2015]
http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/femme-fatale-the-rise-of-female-suicide-bombers/
[Update Jan 2016]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/sunday/the-sexual-misery-of-the-arab-world.html?ref=opinion&_r=1
Update 15 Feb 2016] The broader cultural background, of which ISIS is but a burning-glass concentration:
http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/femme-fatale-the-rise-of-female-suicide-bombers/
[Update Jan 2016]
| Im November 2012 und auch schon zuvor kam es auf dem Tahrirplatz zu Gruppenvergewaltigungen. Verschiedene Frauen wurden von Männergruppen auf dem Platz und in seiner Umgebung öffentlich vergewaltigt. In einem Fall vergingen sich 70 Männer an einer Frau. Die Frauen, die es traf, waren aktiv während der Revolution. Diese Vergewaltigungen geschahen in systematischer Form. Es war ein politisches Zeichen: Die arabische Frau sollte die Öffentlichkeit wieder verlassen. Manche Männer hielten die Frauen fest, andere vergewaltigten sie, dann wurden die Positionen gewechselt. Einige nutzten Werkzeuge oder scharfe Waffen, anderen ihre Finger. Inmitten unseres Platzes, inmitten der hupenden Autos, der Passanten, der Stadt, wurde der Körper der arabischen Frau wieder aufgelöst, so als gehöre er einfach zum öffentlichen Raum, so als sei er beliebig bespielbar, benutzbar, betastbar." |
| (Tageszeitung vom 25.01.2016) |
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/opinion/sunday/the-sexual-misery-of-the-arab-world.html?ref=opinion&_r=1
Update 15 Feb 2016] The broader cultural background, of which ISIS is but a burning-glass concentration:
[Update 29 May 2016]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/isis-fighters-appear-to-be-trying-to-sell-their-sex-slaves-on-the-internet/2016/05/28/b3d1edea-24fe-11e6-9e7f-57890b612299_story.html
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Details:
“To all the bros thinking about
buying a slave, this one is $8,000,” begins the May 20 Facebook posting,
which was attributed to an Islamic State fighter who calls himself Abu Assad
Almani.
FYI -- “Almani” means ‘German’ in Arabic.
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