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.
Mike A:
Then why do Liberals expect women to be stupid and easily led? Do they only date conservatives?
Because you’d have to be beyond foolish to think you were better off if you now pay more with higher premiums than you did with a reasonable copay.
And we’ve all seen the media attacks on any woman who objects to Obamacare. Even cancer victims have not been immune.
Women who do not toe the Liberal party line – it’s open season for the attacks.
Mike – So SPOT On….
I would commit hari-kari myself;
If my significant other was a bias sheeple
Conservatives: “Obviously, anyone not in a long term monogamous relationship should wear a condom for safety.”
Liberals: “Ooooooooooooh! Conservatives think that women are filthy and carry disease! If you wear a condom instead of using free birth control, you buy into the war on women!”
Biology: STDs are transmitted between body fluid of partners, and women are not magically immune.
Reality: STDs obviously rise, as they did in the 1960’s
Liberals: Walk away whistling
(btw – I had to really {really} resist a Jeff Dunham remark there)
Mike – always the legal wrangling/angling expert – takes the fun out of it all.
Though – in essence – isn’t suicide bombing an automatic ipso facto exempt?
I’m just sayin……
Karen S.:
Actually, liberals are not attracted to women who are stupid and easily led.
Oh sister Karen! I rejoice you have at last seen the light! I join you in womanly ululating, brrrrrlalalalabrlalalalabrrrlalala!
Paul –
Some times you can take a real long leap of the edge of ludicrous cliffs;
almost as if it is a natural trait.
cootie shots.
(Would that include purging of Manly Men)?
I’m afraid that I cannot begin to grasp the pathology described in this piece. But I do have a question. Do the policies issued by Caliphate Life contain suicide exclusions?
Paul: Liberals must think women are stupid and easily led. Seriously. Middle Class women now pay so much more for unsubsidized Obamacare policies, and are just expected to be too stupid to do the math and realize they are worse off, financially. That they had access to birth control in the past, with a reasonable copay. Now they pay far higher, with no copay, and are told to be obedient and believe they are better off.
And then they ridicule and shame women who use their brains and object. We’ve all seen the attacks on the media.
Bad woman! No thinking! Be obedient to Liberal and do as your told! You have no right to complain that their policies cost you more, you lost your doctor, and you have breast cancer and now your Obamacare policy is not accepted at the top hospital or surgeons. Shame on you for thinking!
fiver: “Don’t buy in to more claims of Weapons of Mass Destruction?”
The law and policy basis of Operation Iraqi Freedom is explained here:
http://learning-curve.blogspot.com/2014/05/operation-iraqi-freedom-faq.html
Excerpt:
[The] “clear and present danger” (Clinton) of Saddam was imputed from Iraq’s noncompliance, not Iraq’s demonstrated possession of WMD stocks. With the broad spectrum of mandates and proven success of Saddam’s “denial and deception operations” (Duelfer Report), which included hidden stocks, Iraq’s compliance with the UNSC resolutions was determined by necessity with measures other than demonstrated possession.
. . .
Q: Did Bush lie his way to war with Iraq?
A: No.
One, the Iraq enforcement was compliance-based. President Bush’s presentation of intelligence did not and could not trigger OIF. By procedure, only Iraq’s noncompliance could trigger enforcement, and only Iraq’s compliance could switch off the enforcement.
The prevalent myth that OIF was based on a lie relies on a false premise that shifted the burden from Iraq proving compliance with the UNSC resolutions to the US proving Iraq possessed WMD. In fact, the US as the chief enforcer of the UNSC resolutions held no burden of proof in the Iraq enforcement. Iraq as the probationary party held the entire burden to prove Iraq was compliant and disarmed. The question of “Where is Iraq’s WMD?” was never for the US President to answer; it was always one of the questions Saddam was required to answer to the chief enforcer’s satisfaction in order to pass the compliance test.
OIF is often isolated out of context and misrepresented as a new policy by Bush. In fact, OIF was the coda of the US-led enforcement with Iraq that began in 1990. Iraq’s guilt was established as fact from the outset of the Gulf War ceasefire and presumed in the enforcement of the UNSC resolutions. The basic presumption of the disarmament process was anywhere Iraq provided deficient account of its weapons imputed possession. Thus, had Bush presented no intelligence on Iraq’s weapons, the compliance-based enforcement procedure would have been the same because Saddam was guilty until he proved Iraq was compliant and disarmed.
Two, it is undisputed that Iraq was noncompliant at the decision point for OIF. Inspectors’ reports throughout the UNSCR 1441 inspection period made clear Iraq had failed to sufficiently account for documented NBC stocks and cooperate to the mandated standard along with other violations. On March 7, 2003, UNMOVIC reported to the UN Security Council that Iraq presented “about 100 unresolved disarmament issues”.
Oh and Laser, in our very best, our very hottest youthful body suits, of course!
I actually do know how to ululate. Shall I trill now in worship of Liberals who “liberated” me so that I am now honored to pay double premiums and 1100% higher deductibles? Yeah, though I walked in the shadow of the Valley of Fiscal Responsibility, I shall fear no Conservative. For Liberals protecteth and guideth me.
Oh, yeah, Liberals, I honor thee for protecting my womb from copay, and liberating my wallet so that you could find sheep to bleat your political agenda.
Laser, I am but a silly woman, trying to impart joy in the hearts of men.
Liberals: “Paying a copay is a war on women! Having anything less than 20 free choices is a war on women! Paying a copay is letting evil men control your wombs!”
Reality: We pay copays for every single medication, including life saving diabetes, asthma, and heart medication. Paying a copay shares cost, and keeps premiums down. Only the people who use that medication pay that copay, keeping costs down for everyone. When we increase “free” benefits, services, and contraceptives, then the premiums rise for everyone. Everyone now pays more than they would if they had simply paid a copay for only the medication they themselves needed. Net = INCREASE. It now costs women more, thanks to Liberals who think so poorly of women that they except they won’t add.
Liberals: Walk away whistling.
Yes, women carry disease, dirty dirty bad women. Filthy females!
Annie – women do have cooties, so that is always a problem. Will heaven have ‘cootie shots.’
Annie – STOP IT (please)?
My ribs are hurting….
(but ya’s get a 3 Smiley award for that one)
🙂 🙂 🙂
Oooops, silly me, that should be ungratefulness. No fun in that! Noooo. 🙁
BTW – Paul S – if you pick Reagan –
I might have to shoot you…..
Ohhhhh, sooooo sorry Eric. I need to show more respect for warmongers. I cry in shame at my ungratefuness!