Umm Layth, who left her family in Scotland to join ISIS, is believed to be part of a women's police force that supplies fighters with sex slaves (Middle East Media Research Institute)
ISIS Pens Poem About 72 Virgins To Ignite Base -- New York Post
How do Islamic extremists fire up the troops?
Poems about virgins, of course.
During a investigation into home-grown terrorists, the FBI monitored communication between two Boston Muslims, Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra.
Mehanna would be charged with aiding al Qaeda and given 17 years in prison, Abousamra fled the US before arrest, and is now serving as chief propagandist for ISIS.
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My Comment: I suspect that if Sigmund Freud was alive today .... he would be having a field day psycho-analyzing these guys.
Update: This next post is a stretch ... but if you have the time to read it .... The Pornography of Jihadism: What ISIS videos and X-rated movies have in common (Simon Cottee, The Atlantic)
2 comments:
In some ways ISIS is smarter than the global elite.
They think they can pawn people off with panem et circenses, ebt cards, abortions, free healthcare.
What ISIS is offering each male or least saying they are, is a family. They have a stake in the future. The global elite do not do that with the current welfare system.
What dies the current welfare system have? Families headed by single women.
This would be any alpha male paradise.
There are however many more beta males than alpha males by definition. It is a dysfunctional system and it is failing.
Which doesn't mean that the ISIS system won't fail and isn't grossly dysfunctional. But at the onset for many, many males it looks much better than the western welfare model or various other corrupt oligarchies around the world that economically disenfranchise people.
Aizino,
You've got it pretty well described, to these guys ISIS has adventure, romanticism, and women. The West, Bike helmets, mom jeans, all organic, sodium free, shade grown, non exploitative, stuff to eat.
As for poetry,
There once was a girl from Scotland........
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