by B. R. GOWANI
The Islamic State, which advocates public stoning for adultery, has opened a “marriage bureau” for women who want to wed its fighters in territory they control in Syria and Iraq. PHOTO/Reuters/Dawn
The Islamic State under the leadership of so called “Khalifa” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is steadily but firmly, with carrot and stick policy, increasing its territory and followers, though not without atrocities and destruction.
Now the ISIS has opened up a “marriage bureau” in the Syrian town of Al Bab which is under their control. Through the bureau it wants to attract single women and widows for its Jehadi fighters.
The after life dreams and actions with phallic like missiles or swords do help many jehadis to reach orgasm. (Check out the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.) They are the ones for whom war activities wipes out the thoughts of intimate relations. But then religious intoxication has its limit. Not all people are going to be totally blinded by its idiocy. And so there are jehadis who need partners – after all, we have to admit that Jehadis are of the human species and have similar natural needs as other human beings, including the sexual ones.
The ones who are going to get wed are not only going to enjoy the sexual life but are also going to go on a honeymoon! But where? Please don’t feel envy. They’re not going to go to Switzerland, France, or the Bahama Islands. They’ll be traveling between Ar-Raqqah in Syria and Al Anbar in Iraq. (Both areas are at present under the control of ISIS and so are part of the Islamic State. Future no one knows.) (It is also operating tours of its “Caliphate” for civilians, but at a price.)
The first jehadi to utilize the honeymoon service was a 26 year old Chechen named Abu Abdel Rahman al-Shishan; he took his Syrian wife on a honeymoon to Anbar.
This raises a question: How long is that Syrian woman going to enjoy her married life? The alliances the Islamic State has formed with various groups in the region it is ruling right now is not of a permanent nature. Besides, the strict Islamic interpretations it is imposing on the people in the land it has conquered are not making them popular among the people. It’s a war ravaged area where many men have died or disappeared due to internal strife and the United States imposed wars. This has produced a great number of victims, including the widows. That society is not very kind towards the widows and so the offer to marry may seem like a little bit better decision. But then the chances of widowhood (first or second) are great and so are the chances of enmity with the locals, that is, when the ISIS loses the power – and the chances for that are great.
B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com