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ISIS wife had laptop packed with porn

by on17 October 2017


Say what you like about IS, they are open minded about porn

The question of how many members of the Islamic State Death cult follow Islamic moral codes has been thrown into question by the discovery of a laptop by one of the IS wives packed with porn.

The Belgian bride of an ISIS fighter thought no one would see the intimate history of her life in the besieged Syrian capital of the Islamic State.

Some nights she was busy searching for baking recipes, on others she was downloading Pirates of the Caribbean, and every so often it was scores from the Ajax soccer team in the Netherlands she was checking. Then there was nearly a terabyte of porn. Titles include everything from “enjoy first time sex” to “make him your teacher”. There are regular visits to the pornographic site RedTube, too.

The laptop was captured just days before she was picked up herself and gives a revealing insight into the mindset of the death cult. The hard drive originally was taken by Ahrar al-Furat, a clandestine resistance group active within Islamic State held territory who shipped it out to the west to help get an image of the mindset of IS women.

The laptop’s former owner is a Flemish-speaking Belgian woman who is of Moroccan descent. She is one of more than 500 Belgian nationals to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State. She was captured and is in the custody of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern city of Kobane.

At no point does this Belgian woman appear disillusioned with the Islamic State project - along with her porn habit she watches YouTube videos of American AC 130 gunships battering suspected Taliban positions in Afghanistan repeatedly.

Airwars, an organization that tracks and monitors coalition airstrikes against ISIS, notes that in the month of August, the US-led coalition hit Raqqa with more than 5,000 bombs, shells, and missiles—that would be one every eight minutes. Despite the chaos unraveling around her, she was still taking to the internet to watch endless amounts of US war footage.

She does follow lectures by jihadist clerics linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda, figures such as the American, Anwar al Awlaki, and Hossam Abdul Raouf and there are tons of PDFs—from religious literature associated with the Islamic State to less radical groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. One entitled “I was of the Muslim Brotherhood” catalogues a jihadist’s ideological transition from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to ISIS. But we don't know if this was read much, whereas finding and downloading TB of porn takes some time and dedication.

US army sources have confirmed that the laptops they aquire from IS soldiers seem to be universally packed with porn, so it is a male and female thing.

Elizabeth Pearson, a Ph.D. candidate at King’s College London and an associate fellow at the London think tank RUSI, had a look at the laptop and said that the ideological commitment to the Islamic State that her laptop data suggests, should not come as a surprise.

“We know that there is no reason to presume women are less ideologically committed to Islamic State than men. Both have shown a variety of reasons for going to Islamic State.”

Last modified on 17 October 2017
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