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Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

icyfroth — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:54:44 GMT

This is the picture which has emerged from a new report into the lives of women who leave their comfortable lives in the West to join the fight for Islamic State.

Researchers Carolyn Hoyle, Alexandra Bradford and Ross Frenett analysed the accounts of women from Britain, The Netherlands, Canada and Austria.

Their report also analyses the ambitions of women and fighters.

And it examines the idea the motive that some move to IS-controlled areas to bag an attractive ‘hipster jihadi’, researcher Ross Frenett told UK newspaper The Telegraph.

He said some would be wives would be attracted to the “image of the jihadist soldier with the wind in his hair”.

The report warns that in addition to heavenly rewards, there are other motives for seeking a fighter husband.

“The imagery of a lion and a lioness, of finding a brave and noble husband, is prevalent among female supporters of ISIS,” it says.

It also details how a sense of identity, which they don’t feel they have in the west, also helps shape the search for their fighter husbands.

The women’s accounts also reveal what they felt leaving their families behind, their day-to-day lives as well as a glimpse into death and martyrdom.

As well as revealing homesickness with posts of missing their families, some have revealed that life since moving is full of domestic duties.

One woman revealed: “The best thing for a women is to be a righteous wife and to raise righteous children.’

Women also need either a male chaperon, or other women to travel with.

But they are also given monthly food supplies, as well as a monthly allowance while married women and their husbands get a house.

And while some receive gifts from the spoils of war, the women reveal life isn’t easy.

One woman writes: “Electricity is unreliable and internet access can be patchy. You can have electricity most of the time or you can rarely have it — it just depends upon your circumstance — but you have to be prepared for not having your mobile charged or their (sic) not being light (alhumdulilah [thanks be to God] for battery powered lights and candles) and maybe even learn how to wash your clothes by hand since you really cannot depend on the washing machine here.”

Life on the streets is also hard, shops never open during prayer time and many people carry guns.

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Maybe even learn to wash your clothes by hand omg

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

wilk1149 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:02:48 GMT

I've been washing my clothes by hand fir twenty five years. Washing machines don't actually get clothes clean, they make them wet but not really clean. I was grave digging for ten years and even the industrial washing machines in a laundry mat can't get that much dirt out.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

vicr3000 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:15:40 GMT

Wilk

Agree.

Depends on what you are doing and what dirt you get in the clothes.

Blood mixed with dirt is a nightmare.

Fighting like they are, hot sweaty, blood, dirt, dust, oil, the clothes become a mess very quickly.

After 2 weeks bush, my trousers would stand up by themselves against the wall and then walk themselves to the bin !!! LOL

Anyway, it is a life they chose.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

polksaladallie — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:18:14 GMT

Half the world handwashes their clothes. Big deal.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

vicr3000 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:19:36 GMT

Probably more than half.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

wilk1149 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:23:26 GMT

The OMG from icy makes me believe she'd rather die than wash by hand. U had,a girlfriend ages ago that would lose it with me every time I washed my clothes by hand insisting that I use her machine. I could never understand her problem with it I wasn't making her wash my clothes

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

k0llectable5 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:27:42 GMT

@wilk1149 wrote:
The OMG from icy makes me believe she'd rather die than wash by hand. U had,a girlfriend ages ago that would lose it with me every time I washed my clothes by hand insisting that I use her machine. I could never understand her problem with it I wasn't making her wash my clothes

I think the omg is sarcasm there wilk...

It's a dig at these western women who have probably never washed anything by hand ever, their clothes or the clothes they have had to wash have never really gotton all that dirty (ie;dirt mixed with blood).

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

polksaladallie — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:30:38 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
Half the world handwashes their clothes. Big deal.

Some older posters had no choice before washing machines arrived.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

vicr3000 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:32:44 GMT

Then some would have died if they had lived through WWII in the UK.

Apart from hard work, hand washing, rationing and every other hindrance to living peacefully.

My grand mother was very descriptive with life during WWII with kids, husband etc (and afterwards up until about 1953, 1954).

Not easy by any means.

Edit

I see some interesting hand washing contraptions in the bush in Aus.

Flogging boards, rubbing boards, huge sinks, Wooden roller driers.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

icyfroth — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:34:26 GMT

@wilk1149 wrote:
The OMG from icy makes me believe she'd rather die than wash by hand.

I had,a girlfriend ages ago that would lose it with me every time I washed my clothes by hand insisting that I use her machine. I could never understand her problem with it I wasn't making her wash my clothes

Ha ha that's a funny. I wash all my good clothes and smalls by hand. Sheets jeans, towels go in the washing machine. I'd hate to do sheets and towels by hand.

I think I'd die if I didn't have my computer. Could live without my phone.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

vicr3000 — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 23:41:25 GMT

I reckon Jeans / Trousers are the worst.

The dirt seems to get in grained in the material.

And yes, I have hand washed clothes, not often mind you

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

lloydslights — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:00:54 GMT

Towels, shouldn't get dirty. Unless you didn't wash yourself properly Outdoor drying and shaking should be sufficient.

And thinking back, it wasn't the hand washing that hurt. It was the wringing that caused callouses.

DEB

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

vicr3000 — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:03:09 GMT

Deb

Didn't you have one of those Wooden Rollers to runt he clothes through that rung the water out. They were great, have used one up bush in NSW.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

lloydslights — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:13:35 GMT

Nup. Poor as.....early on. Progressed to Whirlpool ringer/washer. Still got the scar where I pushed a garment through the wringer and my hand went with it, didn't know where the release lever was.........

Then the Hoover twin tub. Then fully auto Hoover 520 (it was the hardest worker). Moved back to Mum's still using the 25 yo Maytag. When it dies, sell for scrap and back to handwash.

DEB

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j*oono — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:20:07 GMT

I've got one of those wringers.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

vicr3000 — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:33:35 GMT

joono

Yep, that's it.

Yours looks a nice fancy one compared to some I have seen

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lloydslights — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 00:49:23 GMT

Nice display piece. Looks like a re-formed B&D Workmate doing its job there Joono.

Tell us, are the rollers wooden or rubber? If rubber how do you keep it "supple" because I picked up an old one and its rollers are cracked. I smeared vaseline on them, haven't checked on them lately, though.

Anybody else got clues to bring rubber back to life?

I know it's nearly off topic, Icy.

DEB

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

vicr3000 — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:07:45 GMT

Deb

Try Armourall from a Car shop, Supercheap Auto.

Yes, it is a bit pricey but it works on car dashboards and i have used it for years on

Spotlight suction cups made of rubber to stop them going hard while in storage.

Has worked for 25+ years.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:18:30 GMT

I've been washing my clothes by hand fir twenty five years. Washing machines don't actually get clothes clean, they make them wet but not really clean.

washing machines have improved

quite a lot since then.

Re: Housework, Death, And Hipster Jihadi Husbands

icyfroth — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:23:39 GMT

@lloydslights wrote:
Nice display piece. Looks like a re-formed B&D Workmate doing its job there Joono.

Tell us, are the rollers wooden or rubber? If rubber how do you keep it "supple" because I picked up an old one and its rollers are cracked. I smeared vaseline on them, haven't checked on them lately, though.

Anybody else got clues to bring rubber back to life?

I know it's nearly off topic, Icy.

DEB

lol.

Ok ok enough with the washing, back to the topic of women finding romance in the notion of being a Jihadi bride.

They imagine themselves to be lionesses fighting at their husbands side then realising what they're really there for is to breed up more fighters for the cause.