Islamic State jihadists have worked hard to establish the image of murderous extremists who slaughter innocent people and destroy ancient religious temples and shrines. However, various newspapers are reporting, the group appears to be eager to show on social media that they are also domesticated as well as hip in recruiting new followers. Appearing across social media are images of Islam Yaken, a young Egyptian law student who left his affluent family in Cairo to become a soldier for Islamic State with signature sword and slaughterous slogans. At the same time, the ladies of Islamic State are recruiting Western and European women to come and hook up with jihadi in a bizarre version of eHarmony or JDate. JihadDate is a bit different. It promises that, if lucky, you can watch your loved one martyr himself — I kid you not.
Yaken is a product of the best schools in Egypt and lived what seems a Westernized life, which makes his emergence as an extremist all the more unnerving. The “hipster jihadi” was educated at the French Lycée in Heliopolis and speaks English and French as well as Arabic. He then went on to the prestigious Ain Shams University to study law. He was then obsessed with his body and, while a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, seemed largely secular in his outlook. After graduating law school, he appears to have taken a turn that none of his friends now understand. The student who once loved Western music and posting about how many calories are consumed by kissing is now trumping the “Caliphate” of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and posting gory pictures that Islamic State seems to relish of its victims. In one posting, Yakin showed two heads in a basket and jokingly compared to the heads of sheep that can be ordered for the table in some Egyptian restaurants.
He has been trying to convince his family to come to Raqqa, a city in Syria that the Islamic State has controlled and cleansed according to its view of Islam. When he told her that she could stay in this flat on the Euphrates and eat and drink and study,” he says she responded: “My son, what would happen if the owners of the flat came back? What will you do then?” Yaken then told her “not to worry – they are dead and gone.” A real hunkocidal catch.
Mothers are not the only people being recruited. Islamic State women are trying to recruit Western and European women and girls — apparently at the request of Islamic State men. Notably, these social websites targeting women do not show the signature gore of the Islamic State of hacked off body parts and corpses. That apparently is a turn-off for JihadDate. Instead it describes the paradise for women to be married to Jihadi and to be part of the community of “sisters” within Islamic State. They are told that they are not excepted to be martyrs but mothers. The “Bird of Jannah” explains: “Women are not equal to men. It can never be. Men are the leaders & women are [so] special that Allah has given them entire chapter in the Qur’an.”
One supposed English woman named Umm Layth gushes with delight about how “I will never be able to do justice with words as to how this place makes me feel.” She adds “Allahu Akbar, there’s no way to describe the feeling of sitting with the Akhawat [sisters] waiting on news of whose Husband has attained Shahadah [martyrdom].” The pitches have succeeded. Two teenage girls, 15 and 16, from Austria have gone to Syria for Jihadi marriages as did two 16-year-old British twins.
Just as a tip, girls, homicidal hunks like Yaken appear to prefer decapitating swords as gifts and their favorite subject is the Caliphate followed closely by the slaughtering of non-believers. As for the standard “likes”: beheadings, Shrine desecrations, and martyrdom. As for standard “dislikes”: Shia, human rights, and most art and music. Under the Islamic State’s view of Islam, you very incompatibility with with modern world makes you compatible — if not ideal — for a Mujahideen match up.
In heart Annie; but not in body.
Which – btw – gives me the paradoxial thought query.
When (IF) we go to heaven, virgins, no food -etc.
Are we in our best body suit – or the last days of our lives?
Do we get to choose?
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BTW on another facet.
Wonder if, we are souls/angels, who are given a choice to pick on who we are going to be born as! You pick to be JFK and prove rich man can get through the eye of a needle. Or, do you pick to be poor, less educated?
What would any of you pick to be – born as?
Liberals: “It’s a war on women unless 20 forms of birth control are free of copays!”
Reality: Health insurance premiums skyrocket, so there is a net INCREASE in cost for those women. STDs skyrocket as it now becomes impossible to convince a man to wear a condom, as he knows with certainty that the woman has access to free birth control.
Liberals: “It’s unrelated.” Walks away whistling.
Annie,
I took your intention as retorting to the notion that conditions for women in an Islamist environment ought dispel feminism in the comparatively feminist West.
However, your message conveyed disrespect of Western men, particularly the real efforts of Western men to care for Western women with Western cultural values.
Gotta love the smell of war propaganda in the morning.
Don’t buy in to more claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction? Don’t care about the centuries old Sunni/Shiite power struggle? Tired of your country ponying up its blood and treasure every time Israel demands? Don’t really care if brutal dictators are supplanted by religious nuts on the other side of the world? Never believed that “They hate us for our freedom” nonsense? Don’t want back in Iraq to protect Exxon/Mobile, British Petroleum, and Royal Dutch Shell?
No worries. The warmongers have many angles.
Forget about ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Now it’s just “Islamic State.” They’re coming for YOU!!! Sharia Law everywhere!!! And look how scary they are. There’s a guy on the internet with a sword!!! A sword!!! They cut off people’s heads (ignore that our Saudi buddies do it much more). They even eat sheep heads!!! Sheep! Heads!!! They are barbarians. Aren’t you glad Israel is bombing their children in Gaza to protect us all? Look, even the well-off like this middle-class Egyptian are vulnerable to their brainwashing (ignore that the Egyptian middle-class is disappearing and that its elected government was deposed in a West sponsored military coup).
But that’s not all.
They’re coming for your women. White women!!! Your vulnerable daughters. All those women who were too good for you and rejected you with a snicker (’cause hey, you know he’s got a better body than you do). If all this doesn’t get your warmongering blood to boil then you’re no “real” man.
Support yet another war because . . . yet another appeal to base emotion.
Liberals: “Waiting to start a family until you’re financially stable and have a life partner is Christians shoving their religion down our throats! Personal responsibility is the slogan of racist conservatives! We are all helpless victims!”
Reality: 75% of African Americans are now born into single mother homes with absent fathers, and have astronomically higher rates of dropping out of school, jointing gangs, committing crimes, becoming addicted to drugs, and going to jail.
Liberals: “It’s unrelated!” Whistling as they walk away.
Well, maybe not a virgin virgin, only slightly virginal.
Hey Laser, it’s been 30 years since I had a kid, I’m a born again virgin.
Karen – liberals do not realize there is no free lunch. Those ‘free’ contraceptives are paid for by all of us, including the women using them. And there is a profit that has to be paid on top of it. Men should be wearing a condom to protect himself from the women and their possible transmission of STDs.
The poor Kurds.
@paulS
Or, maybe “72 Shades Of Pure As Driven Snow”???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky – 1 book per virgin. I see a mega series coming!!!
How dare you expect me to pay a copay for reproductive medication, regardless of my socioeconomic status!!! What am I, a man?! It’s like you’re treating this like any medication, like diabetes medication that can save my life! It’s a war on women to pay a copay! But it defends my rights to raise my premiums exorbitantly so I don’t pay a copay, assuming I won’t just add.
Laser, you would be enough man for a Cougar. Who needs 72? 😉
Hahahahahaha! It is hilarious to drag up the contrived “war on women” in the West in the context of Islamic Jihad luring underage teenagers to marry jihadis. Why not use the opportunity to bash Christians, too? Isn’t that what always happens when a jihadi severs heads and makes a kaleh pacha joke?
It’s true. There are no words.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031203339.html
Paul, I know. I’m not talking about sending troops, just supply them to kill these ISIS b@stards. The Kurds know how to fight. They’ve had to for centuries just to survive.
Bill Cosby joked about kissing your wife – waiting 10 seconds – out comes the child. You dip it in a solution to get the right skin tone. Doesn’t work – Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
Also joked about having kids at 2 and turning them back in at 5.
If the extremists can get 72 virgins (G-d help ANY man who thinks he can handle 2 – much less 72); I’d rather be one of the 72 for the cougar.
For one – I get 71 days off/free.
2ndly – No need to compete – saves anxiety.
Finally, I can get notes from 71 others (real cool).
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Thus (Paul) – they have to come from somewhere. Whether its rinse, lather, repeat, wash the soul – or float in space until the non-virginity is frozen away!
(Maybe we go to the center of sun and burn off all the human stuff;
could explain all those solar bursts {some ppl have much to burn off}).
Laser – much to their belated surprise, cougars are still fertile.
The poor guy had a late time for surgery! He is starving and probably has a horrible caffeine headache. They can give you caffeine intravenously, no shit. I’m sure it will go well. We have the best healthcare in the world. You folks are smart people and I’m sure have a great surgeon. Good luck.
Although the European woman’s statement was probably accurate. She was probably crying and wailing when she spoke it, but it was an accurate description.
Karen – that modeling contract for that criminal may keep him out of jail for awhile. 🙂
They’re leaving out an important phrase in the Jihad-Date material. “You are not expected to be a martyr. You are expected to give birth to children that will be martyred. So get ready to lose your kids!”
Nick – last I heard the Kurds ran out of ammo and were having to retreat.
And jihad has a certain appeal to impressionable angst-ridden youth. You don’t see too many middle aged men strapping on suicide bomb vests. But violence and suicide has always tended to be highest in young men. They believe the inflammatory rhetoric, and they don’t have the experience to know they’re being manipulated, or to question what they’re told.
And as for girls lured to make underage jihadi weddings . . . Well, the PC police can answer partly for that. It is labelled Islamophobic to criticize widespread militant Islam. So there are those who truly do not have accurate information about the severe treatment of women under Sharia Law. At that age they lack the knowledge and experience to know the qualifications of a good man don’t just include strong biceps. They remind me of those grown women who form fan clubs for attractive serial killers, or criminals in general. Sometimes they marry these cretins in jailhouse weddings. (Recall that JT story about the handsome criminal in jail who won a modeling agent?)
Yet another reason to monitor the Internet social media presence of teenagers.