Why young American women are joining ISIS

Washington Post via MSN ^ | 11/22/15 | Danielle Paquette

[Libloather]

Toward the end of the century, Westerners who fled their home countries to fight in Afghanistan or Bosnia shared a common characteristic: They were practically all men. Today’s militant recruits, however, represent a dramatic demographic shift.

Most are just entering adulthood. They often meet terrorists online. They’ve asked in covert chats: Do you have hair dryers, or should I bring one?

One in seven are women, according to a new report.

An estimated 4,500 Westerners have ditched home for the Islamic State or other Sunni jihadist groups in Syria or Iraq. Researchers at New America, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., collected data on 474 of these cases. They found in news reports an unprecedented number of radicalized women sneaking across borders.

[grey_whiskers]

There do exist sites which document young American women agreeing on social media to go to various Middle Eastern countries, to experience the joys of coprophilia and worse, in exchange for large sums of cash...

[Polyxene]

After a few days, these idiots will be lucky to have a head, let alone hair to dry.

[blaveda]

Perfect!

[sauropod]

I have a whackjob SIL and a whackjob cousin and a whackjob uncle.

At Thanksgiving, I’ll be polite.

That’s all I can do.

That’s what God would have me do.

[sport]

I have a similar situation. You have my condolences.

[stanne]

It’s what you do. It’s thanksgiving

Forget it