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| 12 Australian Women have Tried to Join IS |
| 2015-05-30 |
| [AnNahar] At least 12 Australian women from one city have attempted to join 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.... group, police said Friday, warning of a trend towards a "romanticized view" of violent jihadists. More than 100 Australians have left the country to support IS in Syria and Iraq, raising concerns about radicalisation and whether they pose a security threat on return, the authorities have said. At least 30 have been killed overseas. Victoria Police assistant commissioner Tracy Linford said those attracted to IS were mostly young, isolated people swayed by slick social media propaganda. In the case of women, they often had a romantic idea of what life would be like under Islamic State control, she said, adding that at least 12 had attempted to join from Melbourne, Victoria's capital city. "We've got five (women) that we know are over there," Linford said, adding that two more were unaccounted for, four were turned back outside Australia and one was stopped at the airport before leaving. "But we also suspect that there are probably more than 12," she told news hounds. Linford's comments came just days after a Sydney mother reportedly abandoned her two children and fled to Syria for a new life under Islamic State. "We think that the young women particularly get a romanticised view of what actually exists for them if they travel to the conflict zones," she said. "There is a reach-back from people who are already in the conflict zone telling them, 'Come over... you will be well looked after, you will have an important position in growing the caliphate, bearing jihadi children in the future, growing the Islamic State'. "And I think they think they are going to be put on a pedestal and treated very well once they are overseas, but the reality is, that's not the case." Linford said some women were forced into arranged marriages and others pushed into sexual servitude, while living in often squalid conditions and on rations, with their movements heavily restricted. "One of things we know about ISIS is that their social media skills are well advanced, and their reach through social media is obviously paying dividends for them," she said, using another acronym for the jihadists. Earlier this week Prime Minister Tony Abbott said dual nationals linked to terrorism would be stripped of their Australian citizenship. Australia raised its threat level to high last September and has since carried out a series of counter-terrorism raids, with several alleged plots foiled this year. Australian Mother Abandons Children to Join IS [AnNahar] The Sydney Daily Telegraph said Jasmina Milovanov, a 26-year-old Moslem convert, left her children, aged five and seven, with a babysitter earlier this month and never returned. It cited her ex-husband as saying she sent a text message telling him she was in Syria. "The only thing I can think about is my children. I can't believe she left these two beautiful children. My son was saying in the days afterwards that he hoped 'my mum is OK'," said the husband, who was not named. "Before she (went) I talked to her (about her extreme Facebook posts). I said this is extreme, stupid. I was warning her about who she hangs out with." Milovanov is Facebook friends with former Melbourne woman Zehra Duman, who is known in Australia as the "jihadi bride recruiter" and uses social media to entice women to join the myrmidon group. Duman's husband Mahmoud Abdullatif was reportedly killed fighting with 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.... group earlier this year. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Your green jillaroo and Muz ocker are Found at the halal tucker snackbar Where rapt rabble-rousers Bend elbows with wowsers And sheiks chat up sheilas who akbar. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-05-30 16:42 |
| #1 sigh-some women like being treated badly it seems! |
| Posted by: paul 2015-05-30 04:40 |