Rape and slavery was lure for UK Isis recruits with history of sexual violence

[Eugene]

Source: The Observer

Rape and slavery was lure for UK Isis recruits with history of sexual violence

Young fighters are mobilised by Islamic State’s ideology of abusing women as a form of terrorism, says report

Mark Townsend
Saturday 7 October 2017 21.00 BST

Men with a history of sexual violence and domestic abuse joined Islamic State because of the organisation’s systemic use of rape and slavery as a form of terrorism, according to new analysis.

The promotion and sanctioning of sexual violence by the extremist group was a pivotal means of “attracting, retaining, mobilising and rewarding fighters” as well as punishing kaffir, or disbelievers, says a report to be released by the Henry Jackson Society.

Enshrining a theology of rape, the sexual exploitation of women alongside trafficking helped fund the caliphate and was used to lure men from deeply conservative Muslim societies, where casual sex is taboo and dating prohibited.

In addition, forced inseminations and forced pregnancies – along with forced conversions – were officially endorsed to help secure the next generation of jihadis, a tactic also replicated by Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/07/isis-rape-slavery-british-recruits-islamic-state

[applegrove]

1. No surprise there.

[Doreen]

2. Totally sick.

I bet trump would like to do that to the women of this country. They seem to be going into that direction.