A photo posted on Twitter on March 18, 2015, by Zehra Duman, aka Umm Abdullatif, a self-professed Australian female ISIS member. SITE Intelligence Group
Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick, National Post/Washington Post: ISIS brides returning home and raising the next generation of jihadist martyrs
The plan to use women to launch the Islamic State's next incarnation involves female returnees teaching the glories of the caliphate to their offspring
She covered herself in black from head to toe to greet a recent visitor to the small Moroccan house where she stays, and removed her veil only when assured that her guest, also a woman, was alone. Over sips of mint tea, she spoke admiringly of her militant husband and the comrades she met in the Islamic State’s all-female brigade. Calling herself Zarah – she declined to give her family name because she had traveled to Syria in secret – she vowed that her children would someday reclaim the Islamist paradise she believes was stolen from her family.
“We will bring up strong sons and daughters and tell them about the life in the caliphate,” she said, fingering her teacup through black gloves. “Even if we hadn’t been able to keep it, our children will one day get it back.”
Zarah’s blunt-spoken fealty to the Islamic State was remarkable, given the physical and legal perils facing Islamic State residents who seek to return to former homes. But counterterrorism officials fear that the sentiments expressed by the Moroccan woman may not be so unusual.
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