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Originally Posted by Cameron Swift
That seems like a very patriarchal way of looking at it. How do you know they're not as bloodthirsty as their male counterparts? Conversely, how do you know some of the males aren't looking forward to tending to the sick and needy?
I just think it's interesting the way the media plays up that the females must be promised sweetness and lollipops and that they need to be rescued, and that the males are savage scumbags whose passports should be burned immediately. In all likelihood, there's probably an element of destructiveness in some of the females who go, and there's an element of naivety in some of the males who go.
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There was an article not that long ago that specifically talked about how girls were recruited and how ISIS has very good specialized woman that targeted girls through social media and they weren't promoting based on a fighting role for woman, but that they would teach children, get married have lots of kids and do what amounted to humanitarian works.
That's not to say that they don't reach out to girls who are looking to actively fight for ISIS, however while they are promised this it is discouraged by ISIS as they believe that woman should cheer for their men, and pump out babies. The most action woman see is enforcing the strict morality laws against other woman.
Of course most of these Western girls once they got over there weren't treated that well, and most of them were abused more because they came from the West.