Women involved in domestic or international terrorism

Women Involved in Domestic or International Terrorism
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Women Involved in Domestic or International Terrorism
Terrorism is the use of threats intended to create a commotion not only to the immediate victims but also to the entire audience. The extent to which it relies on worry determines terrorism as either domestic or international. Generally, terrorism is the use of brutality to generate in the achievement of political goals. Therefore, terrorists engage in highly dramatic, violent, and high levels of attack to maintain the public necessity of fear to the intended audience. Terrorism includes a variety of activities such as hijacking, car bombings, hostage taking, kidnappings, and suicide bombings. Women are not exceptional to participate in terrorist acts to achieve their political goals. Terrorists use familiar places to destroy the normal routine of the places or regions to assert pressure on political leaders (Banks, 2019).
Nowadays, most terrorism includes women, and yet, most counterterrorism ignore women, they focus on the men. Women have many ways they contribute to conflicts in different countries such as Iraq, Syria, and the United States. In regions such as Ukraine, Kurdish, and Columbia, women play a crucial role in civil wars. Women are the major reasons why wars take a long time without an end. For instance, they feed the men with information on the rival enemies about their fighting tactics. It gives the terrorists the effort to resist security forces in the country. Therefore, counterterrorism organizations should not neglect the power of women toward terrorist attacks.
Women have several ways of involvement in terrorist activities. For instance, they do not necessarily need to hold a gun for them to be included in terrorism. Family act as a site for radicalization and recruitment in the terrorism plan. Territorial women in the ISIS brought up children after giving birth for about 730 babies, as they train them for the terrorist attacks. They played a fundamental role in educating children for future use as terrorists in Indonesia. The three families coordinated the attacks leading to deaths of some of the children as well as parents. Eight people lost their lives in the attacks due to women's knowledge and techniques in terrorism. The above act portrayed women as dangerous as fellow men counterparts in terrorist activities. It has led to a little trust of women in society as being perpetrators of the attacks in the future.
ISIS enforced separation of sexes as only a few women had permission to up arms during the war. Women served as doctors, propagandists, fundraisers, and recruiters during the ISIS and they were a part of the morality police. The efforts of women are critical to contributing to the armed group’s success. Women played important roles as propagandists and recruiters for ISIS, as they may do so on their return at home. They can form new terrorist group networks that are more advanced and effective according to the new technology. The new networks formed by women can prolong terrorist attacks towards their fighting enemies (Carlton & Schaerf, 2015). In my perception, women have the power to control the overall war stature of terrorists. It can lead to more deaths as well as the loss of the young generation due to training to join terrorism. Besides, women can create mobilizations among the other remaining groups for the support of their men in terrorist attacks such as Jihadi.
Women can have more committed to the cause than men can of the same society. Despite husbands’ pressure to force women to travel to different parts of Syria and Iraq, others went willingly to gather information for their terrorist husbands. Many research shows that Western women joined “jihadi” for the same reason as their male recruits. It meant that they had the purpose of their male counterparts in the “jihadi” war. Therefore, they acted as the strengthening force for the male recruits in the war. The women took the same oath as men to support and sell ideas to male soldiers of the jihadi group. Taking an oath makes them, if not more, committed to the perceptions of ISIS. Their effort led to an elongated struggle in the jihadi war as they smuggled information to the male recruits.
Colombia is the most recent example of the efforts to demobilize groups. Women groups were hard to demobilize than those men from the FARC (Linton, 2016). The above information shows that this phenomenon is not only for Columbia but also for the entire world. Besides, only 5 percent of women who had traveled to Syria or Iraq returned. However, men had the largest percentage of returnees that consisted of about 19 percent from 2013 to 2018. The less number of women returnees means they have a willingness to travel to an active war zone to spell the idea of the group`s violent. Therefore, the women were the strongholds of ISIS to support the active war in Iraq or Syria. We should underestimate women in terrorism activities because they are more lethal as the public can think of them in the attacks.
ISIS women pose a great challenge to post-conflict justice and reintegration during terrorist attacks. In Syria and Iraq, the authorities struggle in dealing with many women and children detained in the course of ISIS's territorial control collapse. For example, Kurdish forces had 1400 ISIS-affiliated women detainees and a small fraction of Iraq. The large of women reveals that women were the heart of terrorism in Syria as compared to their male counterparts (Ortbals & Poloni-Staudinger, 2018). Likewise, other countries such as Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East encountered a pressing challenge. They did not know if they had to release them to join their families after being a national threat.
The international communities had mixed reactions to the ISIS returnees in Syria and Iraq. Several Western countries preferred the detaining of the female nationals rather than extraditing them. Some of the women involved in the ISIS have received life sentences by jurisdiction organizations in Iraq. Different countries have various opinions on the citizenship of the returnees such as the United Kingdom. While others like the United States, argue to bring women terrorist home even if linked to ISIS. Moreover, they suggest that they will have to face justice in countries such as Canada.
Fruitless efforts to reintegrate women and child returnees have to consider different aspects such as domestic violence, sexual slavery, and sexual harassment...