For those women who felt left out by previous jihadist magazines, the people behind a new publication may think they have an answer.
The newly released Arabic-language Al-Shamikha magazine mixes advice on beauty and fashion with instruction to raise children to be ready for jihad, according to Britain’s Daily Mail and the Independent.
The magazine’s 31-page inaugural issue advises not only on how women can aspire to a fine complexion - in part by keeping their faces covered and staying indoors when possible - but also how to land a great catch of a man among the mujaheddin, according to the Independent.
Also, “readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujaheddin ready for jihad,” and one article tells readers to give their lives for the fight against the enemies of Islam, the Daily Mail reports.
The publication - whose cover features a machine gun and an image of a veiled woman – also features interviews with women who praise their husbands who died in suicide attacks, according to the Daily Mail.
Al-Shamikha is distributed by the same al Qaeda media wing behind the English-language Inspire magazine, which debuted last year, the Daily Mail and the Independent report.
Inspire, geared toward Westerners who might be interested in the jihadist cause, is an online publication of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that includes advice on how to build bombs and encrypt messages. Inspire’s inaugural issue had an article titled "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."
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Nut's . sad but true
I can just imagine their advice on child rearing. "Enjoy your sons and instill the wishes of Allah. Love them while you can, because they blow up so fast."
I think the goal of this article is to point out that jihadists are adding information to magazines to mainstream jihadist ideals and desensitize whomever reads the "jihadist corner" of the magazine to make it ok for your sons and daughters to kill themselves for the jihadist adjenda. Maybe people can be slowly molded (or even cohersed) to believe it is ok for there son or daughter to die for someones adjenda...hitler is an example. God bless the independent thinker who figures out the jihadist evil adjenda in propoganda and says the jihadist adjenda is crap and don't let there sons and daughters read such garbage and if mothers allow there children to read this it is pointed out jihadists are cowards and can do there own dirty work for there own power struggle with the world. I wish for the day when real muslims shut down dark hearted evil doing muslims. I one day would like to visit the middle east without my M16 to see/enjoy the culture and history as a friend.
Hey Jane, I hate to break it to you but sitting around trolling the internet for an excuse to bash somebody's religious beliefs is a major indication that you lack intelligence yourself. Most religions are peaceful, including muslims and christians, but as it happens each religious group has it's oddballs that misinterpret the reading and messages that their religion offers. In the case of Baptism I would have to say it's the Westboro church that's misinformed. Not all the good christians, catholics, muslims, etc., go to church to worship. If you knew anything about what it was you were trying to bash, you would know church isn't a requirement with most religions. Please educate yourself.
Unfortunately Muslim has the largest oddballs of all of them. Just go to Gallup Polls and Pew Research Center and type the word Sharia law and you'll find how many Muslim wants to be govern with religious law in the 21st century. I'm sure you never live in Muslim country but I was born and raise in Malaysia and I know the political and religious environment I live in. So don't try to educate or tell me about Islamic Law. Sharia comes with many different intepretation since there's multiple Islamic school of thoughts and is also one of the factor Muslim persecute one another due different intepretation of Sharia law. That goes the same for Christianity since there are many christian denomination but how many times do you see christian, jews hindus, catholic and theist persecute one another? I acknowledge there are persecution within other faith but is rare.
Wow.....can't wait to see the centerfold for this one! LMAO! This is very disturbing!
Hey Brian, you are daft and confused in thinking the American government has morals. Getting Iraq out of Kuwait was a purely selfish move. They removed a hostile government from an oil supplying friendly country.
Hell, I can't even find one virgin. Where is the virgin ware house located?
"The same al Qaeda media wing" led by this guy?
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-talented-mr-pearlman/
Look, as an Englishman, I can tell you now take everything the Daily Fail says with a pinch of salt. It's an evil mild melter – it's best used to line the cat litter. Not to be taken seriously. This is my opinion and it's shared by many.
thats good to know. thank you
eww....too muvh blood to deal with all the 70 virgins !!!!!!!!!
I really seriously hope that any young woman who reads that would understand that if she accepts this, it would mean a life of widowhood and despair because the father would use the children as fodder for destroying others, destroy himself, but not after everything he touched was touched by death!
i wonder if those jihadist widows are worried about all those virgins their hubbies are feasting on in the afterlife. D'OHHHH!!!
I don't think the widows would really care about the virgins, in their culture, the men have many wives.
Remember 9-11.
I think we, in the US and the world, that are not muslims, should come up with our own book on how to kill all of these sorry excuses for humans. If they are seen to be a Jihad and killing innocent people, instant torture and death. But, that's just me.
THis publication is a trap!!!!!! Everyone knows a good muslim would never let his daughter learn to read.
ALL THOSE WOMEN READERS BEWARE!!!! WATCH OUT FOR THE ACID SPLASH!!!!!
Ha! You have a very good point there!