ISIS female Gestapo leading campaign of terror against own sex – and 60 are British
Islamic State’s ‘female Gestapo’ is conducting a sickening campaign of terror against their own sex.
The special brigade – set up to enforce the terror group’s strict Islamic views – bite and whip any woman who steps out of line and force girls to become sex slaves.
As many as 60 British women are thought to be members of the brigade, which operate in ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital Raqqa, in Syria.
The city is ruled by fear, with torture, stoning and crucifixions common.
All women are prohibited from going outside or travelling without a male relative.
ISIS imposes a strict dress code demanding all females from puberty upwards wear two gowns to hide their body shape, black gloves to cover their hands, and three veils so their faces cannot be seen, even in direct sunlight.
Women have been publicly buried alive in sand for breaking the code.
One former Syrian schoolteacher trapped in the city opened up to Channel 4 in a documentary, Escape From ISIS, to be aired next week.
She saud: “We have no freedom. We cannot go out on the balcony or look through the window. They will arrest a woman if she wears perfume or raises her voice. A woman’s voice cannot be heard.”
The teacher told of her horrifying capture by the city’s ruthless all-women police unit, the Al-Khansa brigade.
“They said my eyes were visible through my veil. I was tortured. They lashed me. Now some of them punish women by biting. They give you the option between getting bitten or lashed.”
British women in the brigade are thought to include Aqsa Mahmood, the 20-year-old Glaswegian woman who left her family to join ISIS last year.
They are paid up to £100 a month, a relative fortune.
One former Al-Khansa enforcer, a young Syrian woman called Umm Abaid, told the filmmakers how she had led a normal life until the arrival of ISIS and the imposition of Sharia law in Raqqa.
“I went to school, to coffee shops,” she said, “but slowly, slowly my husband [a Saudi Arabian IS fighter killed in a suicide bomb attack] convinced me about Islamic State and its ideas. I joined the brigade and was responsible for enforcing the clothing regulations.
“Anyone who broke the rules, we would lash. Then we would take her male guardian, her brother, father or husband, and lash him, too.”
The brigade even stops buses to check women passengers.
If one is found breaking the code, all the passengers are forced to get off and the bus is refused permission to proceed. The driver can be lashed because he let the woman on board.
Some of the Al-Khansa members operate undercover, posing as housewives and mingling in the crowds to listen for any dissent.
They also run brothels where kidnapped girls are expected to satisfy fighters returning from battle.
Those who have escaped the brothels say they have slept with 100 different fighters in a few weeks.
Emily Dyer, a research fellow with the Henry Jackson Society, spends hours tracking social media messages sent to the West by jihadi brides.
She says many Muslim British women see joining ISIS as an “attractive option” but once they arrive in Syria the reality of their situation is wholly different from the propaganda they are fed.
Under ISIS prohibitions, single women live in all-female safe houses called maqqars. If they are married, they must be only mothers or housewives unless selected to be IS ‘enforcers’ or fighters.
A girl tracked by Emily on Twitter said: “I’m fed up. They make me do the washing up.”
Another said: “I’ve done nothing except hand out clothes and food. I help clean weapons and transport dead bodies from the front. It’s beginning to get really hard.’
One complained: ‘My iPod doesn’t work any more. I have to come back [to the West].”
Women in maqqars are forbidden access to mobile phones or the internet.
They are then prepared to become jihadi brides, even if they are young teenagers.
But girls who marry one fighter, have found they are expected to spend a week with their new ‘spouse’ before they are ‘divorced’ by an Islamic cleric and married to another fighter for a week.
Yet more Muslim girls and women from Europe, and notably the UK, arrive in Raqqa each month to join ISIS.
It’s just one of the reasons politicians view the threat from ISIS so seriously.
Source: Mirror
