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| Terror Networks |
| ISIS uses prostitution networks |
| 2015-02-07 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] A Moroccan expert is warning against the growing threat of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) using women in terrorist operations. In the last weeks of 2014, the Moroccan and Spanish security authorities dismantled a cell specialised in recruiting women and sending them to ISIS. The cell was based in Barcelona and had extensions in Ceuta, Melilla and Fnideq. The cell, comprising four women residing in Barcelona, targeted maidens of tender years in Morocco and sent them to Fnideq where they were ideologically indoctrinated before being sent to Syria to engage in "jihad annikah ...Islamic whoredom. Proper Moslem women are expected to engage in 20-minute marriageswith rutting Lions of Islam for the greater glory of Allen. Naturally, the Lions of Islam are expected to make a contribution to the holy men running the operation, say, twenty bucks or so, of which the Flowers of Islam get maybe five. They'd probably make out better in Amsterdam or Tijuana... ". Several reports around the world have sounded the alarm about the rising numbers of women who join ISIS to engage in jihad annikah. The phenomenon, which started as women joined their husbands who were fighting in Syria, has evolved and now includes more and more unmarried girls. Recent field research conducted by the Moroccan-based Northern Observatory for Human Rights (ONERDH) confirmed the worrying trend. ONERDH Director Mohammed Benaissa told Magharebia that northern Morocco has had at least ten cases. "As to the new generation of women who are joining ISIS, most of them are maidens of tender years who were recruited via social networking websites," he explained. Benaissa noted that sheikhs of jihadi salafism have made the matter easy for those girls by issuing fatwas permitting marriage via Skype, and other fatwas allowing them to travel to Syria without a male companion. The phenomenon of women travelling to Syria and Iraq has taken an alarming dimension in recent months, as their number is estimated between 300 and 500. Mohammed Benhammou, president of the Moroccan Centre for Strategic Studies (CMES), said that the size of this phenomenon was much bigger. "There is another dimension related to the travel of women to Syria and Iraq, and this is related to global prostitution networks that started to pay attention to the region after the war broke out in Syria," he said. "In a report on transnational crime issued by CMES three years ago, we observed intensive activities by global prostitution networks towards Turkey and Jordan," he added. Benhammou unveiled that prostitution networks exploited the desire of North African girls to immigrate to Europe and lured them to Turkey where many deceived maidens of tender years found themselves hostages to prostitution networks that sell their bodies to fighters in Syria. ISIS has exploited this situation to penetrate prostitution networks and recruit women into the group as part of the jihad annikah, Benhammou said. "ISIS has given hookers a package of financial and moral incentives, like a monthly salary, a chance to repent and get out of the circle of prohibition and erase their past by giving themselves over to jihad, and a possibility to continue with their profession under the pretext of marriage with the group fighters," he explained. |
| Posted by:Fred |