Why are so many women joining ISIS?

[GBCW 397]

Shhh, the feminazis don't like it when men say that out loud.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Cause a lot of women like men that treat them like #######

Are you speaking about this from a male's experience?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Are you speaking about this from a male's experience?

Well since I am a male , and it is based on my observations in life...

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Well since I am a male , and it is based on my observations in life...

So you came up with the genius idea all women want to be treated like ####### by men based off of this article.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

So you came up with the genius idea all women want to be treated like ####### by men based off of this article.

Here you go again my dear, making words out of stuff I did not say. I did not say all women and I do not mean physically abusive men.

Seinfield even had an episode about it once. It's a pretty well known social phenomena.

[unsmiley 111]

Here you go again my dear, making words out of stuff I did not say. I did not say all women and I do not mean physically abusive men.

Seinfield even had an episode about it once. It's a pretty well known social phenomena.

Uh-oh, you know the P.C. police won't allow you to call a woman "dear" without having a conniption.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Uh-oh, you know the P.C. police won't allow you to call a woman "dear" without having a conniption.

You have to know your audience. Janelle and I fuss and fight sometime, but she knows down deep I have nothing but warm regards for her. Not only that, outside of being racially misinformed, Janelle is a woman's woman. I don't think she will mind a man treating her with a little lady deference. It's usually the can't get a real man caustic types that get upset about things like that

[Dan and Judy 614]

... why would women be willing to join ISIS — a group that not only imposes strict restrictions on women's dress and behavior, but also has a record of appalling abuses against women, including forced marriages, the use of rape as a weapon of war, and the enslavement of women from the Yazidi religious minority?

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Women join ISIS for similar reasons that men do. [The Brookings Institution's] McCants said that men might join the group out of a "desire for adventure, a feeling that they are protecting a persecuted Sunni community, or enthusiasm and fervor that the end times are approaching, and wanting to be a part of it." Those same arguments could appeal to women as well.

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"Generally, women share the same political culture as the men of their communities," Gowrinathan [a UN researcher whose work focuses on women's participation in conflict and rebel movements] said, so there is good reason to presume that that the same events that motivate men would also motivate women.

Some women may also see ISIS as a protector of women, rather than an oppressor of them. McCants noted that jihadist groups have often appealed to Arab men's sense of honor, by claiming that Muslim women had been raped and that joining the jihad was a way to avenge their mistreatment. ISIS's campaign against other Sunni groups in Syria, for instance, was expressly couched as a battle to protect women's virtue.

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But that doesn't explain why a surprising number of women in the West have been leaving their homes to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Dr. Erin Saltman, who researches processes of political radicalization, estimates that one in ten of ISIS's foreign recruits are women. She sees three reasons that ISIS may be appealing to some women in the West; the first two are gender-neutral messages that reach women as well as men, but the third may be targeting women directly.

The first reason, Saltman said, is an "adventure narrative" that encourages young women to think of traveling to ISIS's territory as not just a religious obligation, but an exciting expedition to a "Muslim utopia."

The second narrative was a humanitarian appeal, which presents ISIS's struggle as an effort that began as a fight against the oppressive Bashar al-Assad government and is now even more necessary because "global powers" are turning against Muslims.

And finally, Saltman said, ISIS has successfully targeted western recruits via "romance" narratives. Some of those are directed at women, promising them that they will find a "strong Muslim man, who is a true Muslim, who is fighting for this very heroic cause."

None of this is to suggest that ISIS does not violently oppress women (it does) or that its behavior towards them should be condoned (it should not be). But understanding ISIS's appeal to women is crucial to understanding its popular support in Iraq and Syria.

http://www.vox.com/2014/10/20/6987673/isis-women

I think it's the beards, same reason some women like duck dynasty

[Janelle2002 3,865]

You have to know your audience. Janelle and I fuss and fight sometime, but she knows down deep I have nothing but warm regards for her. Not only that, outside of being racially misinformed, Janelle is a woman's woman. I don't think she will mind a man treating her with a little lady deference. It's usually the can't get a real man caustic types that get upset about things like that

Calling me dear won't make me angry. Calling me woman will get you set on fire.

I think it's the beards, same reason some women like duck dynasty

That is sooooooooooooo unattractive. I can't imagine the food that gets caught in that. A little fuzz, I'm down for. Nothing like a man that looks like a man. A beard to the stomach, I just can't deal with it. I can't lay my head on him when I go to sleep at night.

Edited October 21, 2014 by Janelle2002

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

You have to know your audience. Janelle and I fuss and fight sometime, but she knows down deep I have nothing but warm regards for her. Not only that, outside of being racially misinformed, Janelle is a woman's woman. I don't think she will mind a man treating her with a little lady deference. It's usually the can't get a real man caustic types that get upset about things like that

Hush, child. Women are talking.

[eieio 1,594]

Why are so many women joining ISIS?

How many are actually joining?

It is the same old same old. Some women are dumb.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Hush, child. Women are talking.