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.
Wow, we sure did get a far piece from the original post. I would like to bring up a new heinous threat the west. They could be amassing undercover in great numbers across the entire country.
Annie;
Concerning Mitt – its Do WE (use Progressives) ever learn?
By 2016 – once he’s running (officially) – its going to be TOO late
to stop him!
Laser – before you get your panties in a twist, Mitt seems to be putting a halt to any efforts to have him run.
And Karen the Hobby Lobby fiasco isn’t about a war on women, it’s about war on the secular.
Exactly Laser. Karen hates Single Payer even more than the ACA. As for Mitt, good lord, do they never learn?
Annie;
She gives it a pass; because it’s from a WE v THEY party.
If a lib made the statement, the axes & pitchforks would’ve rushed the hills.
This banter about ACA (even by the Professor) is obtuse to the fact that – Yeah, the health care industry hates socialized medicine; but the millions of poor that now have the right to go – offset that banter.
Sure – it needs improving – and will do so.
If we can just keep Mitt & his ilk from getting in – in 2016.
on 1, August 7, 2014 at 12:40 pmLaserDLiquidator
Karen;
Most of U.S. lib’s have a saying (and pic we repost over & over on FB). Being a woman and being GOP is like being a chicken voting for expanding KFC’s.
It is pity that we have for such.
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Precisely so Laser.
I always took a “to each his own” philosophy about politics. I’d been a fiscal conservative for a while, but was not very passionate about politics.
Obamacare galvanized me. And whenever the employer mandate hits, and the majority are in the same boat as me, it will galvanize them. It may happen after the next election, but it will happen.
And Obamacare is squarely around the neck of Democrats. I doubt they’ll be able to hold office in a town of 2 after that.
Karen, what YOU were oblivious to or chose to ignore was this, which my response was directed toward. If you don’t find this comment offensive then, well, I just don’t know…
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on 1, August 7, 2014 at 12:10 pmPaul C. Schulte
…Men should be wearing a condom to protect himself from the women and their possible transmission of STDs.
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This is not the first time he has said WOMEN transmit disease without including the OBVIOUS fact that MEN do too. Why do you as a woman give this stuff a pass?
Annie – here is what I said, exactly, not the out of context quote you gave.
Is there anything medically inaccurate about that statement?
Even Professor Turley, both here and in interviews, has said that Obamacare is poorly crafted legislation that was not thought out.
Is he basing his opinion on anecdotal evidence?
Every time I’ve gone to a doctor, for myself or my little boy, this year, Obamacare gets brought up. Patients, doctors, and staff pour out of rooms and there is always an impromptu meeting condemning Obamacare. I even took a picture of the sign at my dermatologist’s office stating that 75% of doctors in CA cannot afford to accept Obamacare. It promotes a factory setting, with doctors having to move vast quantities of patients to break even, spending very little time with each one.
How’s that for improving health care?
Mike A:
It’s not anecdotes when the CA Medical Association declares that the majority of doctors do not accept Obamacare plans.
And there are well documented figures, including from the CA Insurance Commissioner, about the average increases in unsubsidized costs.
Still don’t believe me? What about that Supreme Court case that Professor Turley was discussing, where apparently subsidies are directly worded to only apply to state exchanges. If subsidies are no longer allowed on federal exchanges, it will spell the end of Obamacare BECAUSE PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD IT unless it’s subsidized.
But good to know that I’ve made a point indelibly imprinted on your brain.
Karen;
Most of U.S. lib’s have a saying (and pic we repost over & over on FB). Being a woman and being GOP is like being a chicken voting for expanding KFC’s.
It is pity that we have for such.
There may be lib’s who are so far center – toward right, where they (errantly) lash out); but true lib’s are free thinkers
not bullies!
A trait specifically known as part of GOP war mongering creed.
Annie – thank you, Captain Obvious! Hence my earlier comment about body fluids between “partners”.
Any woman [or man] who believes that there
is a war on women unless[are huge health care cost savings to be had if] 20 forms of birth control are available free of copay(with much higher premiums)regardless of her socioeconomic status iseasily ledcapable of basic arithmetic.FIFY
Yep, Darren….
Karen S.:
I know that you have been upset with your health insurance situation. That point has been indelibly burned into my brain. However, I have received partial refunds from my health insurer in each of the last two years. The point is that anecdotes are evidence of nothing other than individual experiences.
(And by the way, the so-called “war on women” has nothing whatsoever to do with the number of forms of contraception made available to women under ACA. That ought to be clear to all but the most obstinate by now.)
Lunacy
Sure, Eric. Sure.
Keep spouting George W. Bush’s lies and pretend we weren’t there to see and hear them for ourselves.
I could point out that none of the weapons inspectors. . . . Oh heck. Why point out anything?
I’ll just let you keep digging.
Karen, women SHOULD encourage the use of condoms so that Manly Men do no impart an STD to them. It works both ways.
Any woman who believes that there is a war on women unless 20 forms of birth control are available free of copay (with much higher premiums) regardless of her socioeconomic status is easily led.