Generous Islamic state: Wedding certificate states jihadi brides can carry out bombings without husband’s permission
- Document says husband can not stop his wife going on a suicide operation
- The final decision over her life rests with ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
- Shows Islamic State’s desperation at ‘losing the war’ expert told MailOnline
- Jihadi who tweeted document said: ‘Women under ISIS are more powerful and free than any in the world’
The emergence of an ISIS wedding
certificate – which allows jihadi brides to carry out suicide mission
without the husband’s permission – suggests the terror group will use
more women to carry out their twisted attacks, a counter-terrorism
expert has told MailOnline.
Written in Arabic and signed by both
husband and wife, the chilling document states the final decision over
her life – and death – rests with Islamic State’s leader Abu Bakr
Al-Baghdadi.
Under ‘conditions of wife’ it says: ‘If
the Prince of believers [Baghdadi] consents to her carrying out a
suicide mission, then her husband should not prohibit her.’
This is Islamic State’s desperate attempt
to force women to the battle-front to replace the countless male
soldiers being slain in bloody battles across Iraq and Syria, experts
have told MailOnline.
The document emerges amid the shocking
reports that three teenage girls have fled ISIS from their stronghold in
Mosul, Iraq, and are currently being hunted down the by the militants.
‘This is the next stage up from foolish
British girls being lured to become sex slaves,’ according to the
Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the
University of Buckingham.
Professor Anthony Glees told MailOnline:
‘We regard female suicide bombers with particular horror. It goes
totally against how we value young women and the gift of life they can
offer.’
‘From our perspective however fanaticism
as depraved as this may be a sign of desperation… to imply the
fanaticism of the female suicide killer is now something we must worry
about if they come back to the UK.’
ISIS – like most extremist groups in the Middle East – have abstained from using women in attacks in the past.
An alleged jihadi bride living in the
Syrian city of Raqqa – known simply as Umm Farriss – posted tweeted a
picture of her suicide belt in the first piece of evidence to
suggest British women are being armed with bombs. But there is no
evidence of her using it.
And back in 2005, Sajida al-Rishawi failed
to explode a bomb strapped to her chest during an Al Qaeda plot to
destroy a hotel in the Jordanian capital Amman.
Professor Glees believes Islamic State’s
attempt to spread fear and confusion through this document means ‘they
are losing the war’.
Adding: ‘Just as Hitler deployed ‘V
weapons’, Islamic State are now using young women and intimating their
loyalty to the ISIS leaders is greater than to their husbands.’
He believes the fanatics will counter
these claims by suggesting that both male fighters and their jihadi
brides are now the West’s ‘mortal enemies’.
But ISIS could use female bombers to devastating effect, a counter-terrorism expert from think-tank RAND has told MailOnline.
Colin Clarke told MailOnline: ‘Feigning
pregnancy is an easy way of concealing bombs and we’ve seen this from
other militant groups who use female suicide bombers.
Just as Hitler deployed V
weapons, Islamic State are now using young women and intimating their
loyalty to the ISIS leaders is greater than to their husbands
Professor Glees, University of Buckingham,
‘As the group continues to expand, the group continues to expand its recruitment and to bring more females.
‘At a certain point they want to
militarise them. And the women themselves may not be content with simply
being one of three wives.
‘ISIS’s predecessor AQI would use women
suicide bombers because they were less likely to be searched at
checkpoints and they wear the long, black Islamic robes which conceal
the explosives.
‘Part of it is out of necessity because
they have been losing a lot of fighters and so, at a certain point, it
becomes a matter of pragmatism.’
The document emerged on social media on
May 9 after it was tweeted by a user called @axn___i whose profile has
since been shut down.
In the post, the potential jihadi bride
claimed women living under Islamic State rule are ‘more powerful and
free than those in the rest of the world’.
Shocking images and videos have previously
revealed how women contribute to the violence inside ISIS-controlled
areas, but they have never engaged in battle against opposition forces.
Women in the notorious Al-Khanssaa Brigade
wield automatic weapons and impose strict Sharia law in their adopted
capital of Raqqa in Syria.
It was feared that three British schoolgirls who fled the UK for Syria had joined the fearsome all-female militia.
Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15,
and Kadiza Sultana, 16, crossed over the Turkish-Syrian border last
February and are believed to be living in the city where they operate.
Begum forged social media links with three of its British leaders and it was thought the trio were training with them.
Another cluster of four British women used
Twitter to express interest in joining the al-Khanssaa brigade,
according to The Telegraph.
One of them – known simply as Umm Farriss –
posted on the internet a picture of her suicide belt in the first piece
of evidence to suggest that British women are being armed with bombs.
Under strict interpretation of Islamic law, women are not permitted to fight but they are allowed to engage in suicide bombings.
Al-Khanssaa has previously declared women should obey men – who are their masters – and remain ‘hidden and veiled’ at all times.
20-year-old Aqsa Mahmood from Glasgow is believed to be a key member of Al-Khanssaa after travelling to Syria last year.
Academics at King’s College London have identified three other British females as members of the group.
Security services say that 600 British Muslims have gone to fight in Syria and around 60 of them are young women.
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