Western Women Who Join Islamic State Defy ‘Jihadi Bride’ Stereotype

Western women joining Islamic State are increasingly from comfortable backgrounds and often well educated with romantic notions of adventure often quickly dispelled by the harshness of life as a “Jihadi bride”, according to a British research report.

Some 550 women from Western countries have left their homelands to join Islamic State, which has captured swathes of Syria and Iraq, said the report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College, London.

However, very little was being done to explain why there had been this “unprecedented surge” to Islamic State, also known as ISIS, or to take preventative action.

“Western female recruits to ISIS are breaking previous stereotypes about who is ‘at risk’ of radicalization into jihadism and violent extremist networks,” said the report titled “Till Martyrdom Do Us Part” . . .

“The responsibility of Western women under ISIS-controlled territory is first and foremost to be a good wife to the jihadist husband they are betrothed to and to become a mother to the next generation of jihadism,” the report said. (Read more from “Western Women Who Join Islamic State Defy ‘Jihadi Bride’ Stereotype” HERE)

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