Hundreds of British Women Want to be Jihadi Brides Warns Islamic State Research

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Hundreds of British women want to be jihadi brides, warns Islamic State researcher

Kiran Randhawa | 2 December 2014

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Hundreds of young women in the UK are desperate to join Islamic State and become jihadi brides, a London-based researcher on radicalisation warned today. Melanie Smith, 22, is in direct contact with 53 women from Europe who have either made it to Syria or attempted to go there. But the researcher at King's College International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, who tracks women and girls who want to marry into the terror group, said soaring numbers of British citizens are being brainwashed by jihadists over the internet every day.

Miss Smith talks to these women on Ask.fm, the site on which IS fighters can often be found updating the world on their thoughts and activities. "There must be hundreds of girls wanting to go across," she said. "I come across girls every day who say, 'I'm so desperate to go over there but it's just so hard for me.' I saw someone say this morning, 'I want to come but I'm a full-time mum.' And someone said, 'Just bring your kids.' The proportion of girls who eventually make the transition from wanting to go to physically going is tiny. But there are so many people who want to go."

She said one girl on Ask.fm told her of "a thing called Jihad Matchmaker" on Twitter: "You follow it, it follows you back, you send a picture of yourself with your veil and the men choose from hundreds of headshots."

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Miss Smith added: "I'd say 90 per cent of the Ask.fm messages to these jihadi men are marriage proposals. It's 'You're so attractive. Will you marry me if I come to Syria?'" Aqsa Mahmood, who tweets under the name Umm Layth, is one of the women Miss Smith is tracking. The 20-year-old radiography degree dropout from Glasgow married an IS fighter and has become one of the group's most hardline internet activists.

Miss Smith said that independence is a huge incentive. "There may be pressure from parents: 'You should study for your A-levels so you can go to university so you can be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer.' They say they have more freedom in IS." But once there, she warned, it is near impossible to leave. "The people around you and the entire state in which you live would probably kill you if you said you wanted to go home openly. Once you're there you're not supposed to leave. It's the rest of your life." The British researchers now believe the 16-year-old twins from Manchester who travelled to Syria earlier in the summer have split up and are living with their own male fighter husbands.

Salma and Zahra Halane, who have 28 GCSEs between them left Chorlton, Greater Manchester and arrived in Raqqa in June.

Miss Smith said a famous Dutch jihadi, known as Yilmaz, who married this week has 'broken the hearts' of scores of Western Muslim women who have all made marriage proposals in the last few months. A monitor of Yilmaz's internet accounts show that he received an astonishing 10,000 marriage requests during his time as a jihadi fighter up until his marriage. Miss Smith said: "it is clear that some of these women who have been travelling to Syria have since married jihadists and foreign fighters". Some, said Miss Smith, want to marry a martyr.

Umm Waqqas, the British woman with the al-Khanssaa brigade, recently tweeted: "The wives my husband will get in Jannah [paradise] are beyond perfecto In Shaa Allah.... Best co-wives any girl could ask for." There is evidence the women are bored in Raqqa, often confined to their houses. There is evidence some have asked to abandon their domestic work and switch to fighting. But last week such calls from women to be allowed to fight provoked a response from the al-Khanssaa: "Sisters take note that the battlefield is not for you unless Muslims are in dire need of both women AND men. You can benefit in other ways."

Aqsa Mahmood, the former private schoolgirl now working for the al-Khanssaa brigade, is typical of the impressionable young women who have turned to jihad and married a fighter out there. The move has left her parents heartbroken.

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In an interview with the American broadcaster CNN, her father Muzaffar Mahmood pleaded with her to return home. "Aqsa – my dear daughter please come back, I'm missing you so much. Your brothers and sisters miss you a lot. My dearest daughter, in the name of Allah, please come home. I love you." It is a plea that will likely fall on deaf ears. Before crossing the border into Syria, she made one last phone calls to her parents at home. She told them: "I will see you on the day of judgement. I will take you to heaven, I will hold your hand," before adding ominously: "I want to become a martyr."

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