More French Women Interested ISIS Than Men

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - In France, more women than men are keen to move to Iraq and Syria in order to join ISIS. "Among young people, women larger proportion of 55 percent," said a French official who declined to be identified told AFP this week.

According to these sources, the figure had included those who simply want or had actually gone to war. A sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar, saying that the girls are not only interested in being a bride ISIS. They are very interested in the abuses committed by men ISIS.

"Previously, violence has always been a male phenomenon, but this generation has a different view. I did a lot of interviews and those who say, 'I want to be like Kouachi.'"

Kouachi brothers is the mastermind behind the attacks that killed 12 people in the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January last year.

"They do not want to be his wife or girlfriend. Their dream is to become like Kouachi," said Khosrokhavar.

But according Khosrokhavar, no sexual reasons also makes these girls are interested. In adolescence, the girls feel uncomfortable with male immaturity sepantarannya.

"There is a new view on heroism and masculinity. The young extremists into a masculine figure that is ideal for these youngsters. It is an anti-feminist post-post-feminist, that they want a guy with traditional masculinity," said Khosrokhavar.

Meanwhile, a British observer and author of "Martyrdom Till do us Part", Erin Marie Saltman, say that most women are finally willing to join ISIS also be interested in the humanitarian argument of the recruiter.

"It is wrong to say that these women are just being jihadi bride. The reason they want to go is actually more diverse," said Saltman.

According Saltman, many girls really believe that the Muslim population is now often judged. They consider themselves as part of an effort to create security and a future for Muslims in all corners of the world.

"It's almost like a sub-culture. It's like punk rock, oppose the system to join this deviant movement," said Saltman.

The girls, continued Saltman, considers ISIS is a social movement underground.

"So, although we see it as a movement conservative, chauvinist, and pressing, is interpreted by those involved as a kind of social movement underground. It was very influential to youth," he said.

Saltman's own estimate that 4,000 Western militants ISIS, 550 of whom are women.