Abstract
The increasing embeddedness of the jihad feminist within the Islamic State’s (ISIS) operations is eliciting works on the role of women in terrorism. However, there is yet to be a more constructive analysis that adequately accounts for the luring of Muslim women into the ISIS as a justification of the patriarchal beliefs and oppressive social systems. This paper is among the first attempts to draw on the Jihad Feminism Theory (JFT) to develop a conceptual discourse that explains the causal relationship between jihad feminist fighters and promotion of patriarchal practices and beliefs within the ISIS. Far from standing against any forms of Western feminization- as espoused by the ISS- , the paper argues that jihad feminism has further subverted Muslim women to sedentary roles within the ISIS as a way of sustaining the organisations’ operations and existence.
Highlights
The increasing embeddedness of the jihad feminist within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operations is eliciting works on the role of women in terrorism
This paper is among the first attempts to draw on the Jihad Feminism Theory (JFT) to develop a conceptual discourse that explains the relationship between jihad feminist fighters and promotion of patriarchal practices and beliefs within the ISIS group
My objective here is to take up a new question in the ISIS literature: What is the nexus between jihad feminists and women subjugation within the operation, dynamics, and governance of the ISIS? This question is grounded in a desktop-based review of discourses on the role of women in terrorism
Summary
The paper draws heavily on a desktop review of literature on the nexus between women and terrorism (Bhattacherjee, 2012). My objective here is to take up a new question in the ISIS literature: What is the nexus between jihad feminists and women subjugation within the operation, dynamics, and governance of the ISIS? This question is grounded in a desktop-based review of discourses on the role of women in terrorism. Analysis of data involved coding scholarly discourses on the combustible issue of women and terrorism into one key theme; an interface between Jihad feminism and female subjugation in the ISIS’s Operations. Discourse analysis was used to engage the data with existing literature on the notion of jihad feminism
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