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Why are girls flocking to ISIS?
Article here. Excerpt:
'An alarming number of young Western women are defying their families — and all logic — to join the ISIS barbarians.
As many as 550 of the estimated 3,000 Westerners who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic terrorists are female, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London think tank.
It’s the sick siren song of the caliphate that appears to have taken hold of three British schoolgirls, who lied to their East London families last week and casually slipped out of the country on a flight bound for Turkey, believed to be a stopover for those heading to Syria, and ISIS.
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Some are coerced — but not all, says law professor Jayne Huckerby, head of Duke University’s International Human Rights Clinic.
“Why do they go? In many cases it’s the same reason as men,” Huckerby told The Post.
Some are alienated by harassment or discrimination against Muslims at home, and want to join what they see as a pro-Muslim movement. Some, according to the ISD, enjoy the shocking violence.
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The ISD study, which examined the social-media postings of Western women who joined ISIS, found the women “celebrate the violence of ISIS, unequivocally.”
One woman called the beheading video of US Army vet and aid worker Peter Kassig “gut-wrenchingly awesome,” while others called the beheadings “beautiful.”
The women get a sanitized view of life under ISIS via social media, and can be sparked by what Huckerby calls “a sense of adventure.”'
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Too many excuses
Notice when females go to join ISIS, the attitude is one of "they're going to be victimized, they're being coerced, they're young and foolish, etc." When males do it, they're traitors, loonies, just plain evil, etc.
The article quotes them as saying they just plain love to watch ISIS behead westerners. Excuse? They're young and foolish, naive, coerced. Boys don't get that characterization for some reason.; bet I can guess what it is, though.