Women in terrorism is an issue that necessitates an in-depth and detailed study specifically when the question of of their motivation and drive to join terrorist groups rises. Although it may be a controversial factor, but women play an important role in terrorist activities and terrorist groups. Their play subsidiary roles by conducting and supervising the logistics, finding and recruiting new members into their terrorist groups, become political and social representatives, as well as being influential and operational leaders and task operators as suicide bombers. Political, economic, and social grievances are known to be major factors and reasons women joint terrorist groups. Even the male leaders see women in terrorist groups, especially
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Women terrorists are mostly used to be the couriers for money and weapons to numerous terrorist branches and missions. They are also responsible for accommodation like housing and medical assistance to the other members of their terrorist group and many times play the role of a decoy, by distracting security officers while others are implementing their terrorist tasks and operations.
Recruiting new members which is an important role for women in terrorist groups fall into two basic forms of terrorist recruitment. First one is recruiting members from their own family and friends. Second form of recruitment is a bit more difficult, which is a careful procedure by pursuing out specific people with special skills and talents that could be a great advantage and assistance to the terrorists’ forthcoming procedure and operations.
One of the reasons, the role of women in terrorist groups is such a peculiar and unnatural issue, is because women are usually associated with being soft hearted and emotional, but that is a wrong generalization. But it should also be mentioned that they used this generalization of women being the innocent gender as a tactic, to raise sympathy and passion, in some cases even open up old wound to raise anger by telling stories of past tragedies and make it personal, to gain more recruiters. This is why the leaders of terrorist groups see women as great
Women terrorists are mostly used to be the couriers for money and weapons to numerous terrorist branches and missions. They are also responsible for accommodation like housing and medical assistance to the other members of their terrorist group and many times play the role of a decoy, by distracting security officers while others are implementing their terrorist tasks and operations.
Recruiting new members which is an important role for women in terrorist groups fall into two basic forms of terrorist recruitment. First one is recruiting members from their own family and friends. Second form of recruitment is a bit more difficult, which is a careful procedure by pursuing out specific people with special skills and talents that could be a great advantage and assistance to the terrorists’ forthcoming procedure and operations.
One of the reasons, the role of women in terrorist groups is such a peculiar and unnatural issue, is because women are usually associated with being soft hearted and emotional, but that is a wrong generalization. But it should also be mentioned that they used this generalization of women being the innocent gender as a tactic, to raise sympathy and passion, in some cases even open up old wound to raise anger by telling stories of past tragedies and make it personal, to gain more recruiters. This is why the leaders of terrorist groups see women as great