Name: なぜ女性はISISに参加するのか？ (Why Are Women Joining ISIS?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:24:42.000Z
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Recently, three American girls were stopped in Germany en route to join ISIS in Turkey.

fact, many women are flocking to the Middle East to join ISIS. Estimates put the number

hundreds. But why? Why are women so eager to join a militant group that’s so publicly

Well, the answer is complicated - in that there isn’t really just one reason. Once

successfully join ISIS, they usually cut off ties with their old life, leaving only a trail

The main recruiting tool ISIS is using to attract women is social media. ISIS is active

Twitter and Facebook, and regularly releases online recruiting videos promising women a

chance to “join a new utopian society.” The internet is also used as a tool for marriage,

Western women meet ISIS soldiers that they will soon marry to become “jihad brides.”

brides help the cause by cooking, cleaning, and raising children - a far cry from the

Some experts studying the motives of Western women joining ISIS, claim that it may just

be for the adventure of it all. Young women, just like young men, are attracted to traveling

foreign land and fighting in a war. Women who join ISIS write about military training

how to shoot guns. But ISIS doesn’t use women on the front lines. They use them more

police, manning checkpoints and inspecting other Muslim women.

Women are also joining ISIS for religious reasons. ISIS fighters are Sunni Muslims,

preach about how their community is being persecuted - which helps influence Sunni women

all around the world. By joining ISIS, they believe that they’re helping a cause that’s

protecting their culture’s way of life. Other Western women feel alienated in their

for reasons like the French ban on Muslim veils. Women are joining ISIS because they

be on the front lines of a new Islamic state.

Again, there isn’t just one reason these women are joining ISIS. And we’re not exactly

how they’re being treated after joining. Yes, some still update their social media

some experts think that ISIS men are the ones that are actually controlling what’s written.

What we do know is how ISIS views women. There’s evidence of sex slavery, rape, and death

sentences. And the perplexing thing is, some women who join ISIS not only agree with this

treatment, but are traveling halfway across the world in order to support it.