Jihad Cosmo?
Al-Qaeda has launched a new magazine that is being called the Cosmo for the female jihadist. On it’s glossy pages are pictures of the latest in suicide belts as well as skin care secrets.
(UK DAILY MAIL –(H/T Maria) Dubbed ‘Jihad Cosmo’, the glossy magazine’s front cover features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture a woman in a veil. There are exclusive interviews with martyrs’ wives, who praise their husbands’ decisions to die in suicide attacks.
The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine – meaning The Majestic Woman – has advice for singletons on ‘marrying a mujahideen’. Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.
And the ‘beauty column’ instructs women to stay indoors with their faces covered to keep a ‘clear complexion’. They should ‘not go out except when necessary’ and wear a niqab for ‘rewards by complying with the command of Allah Almighty’.
A woman called Umm Muhanad hails her husband for his bravery after his suicide bombing in Afghanistan. And another article urges readers to give their lives for the Islamist cause. It advises: ‘From martyrdom, the believer will gain security, safety and happiness.’ More traditional content for a women’s magazine includes features on the merits of honey facemasks, etiquette, first aid and why readers should avoid ‘towelling too forcibly’.
A trailer for the next issue promises tips on skin care – and how to wage electronic jihad. The first issue’s editorial explains that the magazine’s goal is to educate women and involve them in the war against the enemies of Islam.
Wow…I don’t know whether to laugh or be horrified.
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You should be horrified because this is what has been going on among the Palestinians for sixty years. The result is that entire generations have been raised for whom murder and death are a way of life. As a parent, it is sickening to see the Jihad and suicide videos made for the children there.
This magazine appears to be an attempt to export this sort of thing to the wider Muslim world.
Obligatory dig at Øbama:
You can lay Hezbollah and the Palestinians’ behavior at the feet of Iran, control over which was lost by Jimmy Carter. By dithering over Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, Øbama may well be creating three more such monsters that will come to affect us in the decades to come.
Wish I had a close up of their hands, because I would bet that those are man masquerading as women. This is the way these cowards have been getting an upper hand on our brave soldiers, while their soldiers dress like girls.
Anti-female violence is promoted under shariah law which grants absolute authority to men over the women in their lives – up to and including murder.
Non-muslims must understand that ordering women to wear the burqa is the way cowardly muslim men can hide the scars, burns, and bruises they regularly inflict on those women.
Will American feminists ever wake up to this fact and demand that the burqa be outlawed here?
You should be horrified, because your tax dollars probably are paying for this, via the UN and one of their equality-in-the-media set-ups.
If they would spend as much energy improving them selves and their lot in life instead of waging Jihad to destroy other cultures they would be living in a paradise on Earth. Or at least as close as man can get to.
Oh, wait, sorry. I forgot. There can never be peace or paradise so long as the evil Jews and the U.S. takes all the resources and money, pollutes the world, and enslaves everyone.
My bad.
(Let’s see if my post makes it this time. *fingers crossed*)
I am most definitely horrified. The only thing I find funny is the part about the skin care. I can’t imagine why a suicide bomber in training would care about skin care…especially if their face is covered with a hideous black burqa. Crazy.
A machine gun is THE must have accessory this season.
A satin black AK-47 to go with that oh so concealing satin black burqa. Be the talk of Gaza City, make all the other women just explode. Allahu Ackbar!
Sheesh. Stuff just writes itself.
Kinda looks like liberal women….even worse…liberal women in the UNIONS.
Excuse me Bev,
I would like to know if you have heard anything about Osaka today?
Thank you.
Good one, Bev.
“Towelling too forcibly”? I don’t mind admitting that my mind has wandered…
1- Why bother with nice skin when you’re ultimate goal is to blast your hide into tiny pieces?
2- Praise for a suicide bomber husband? You betcha! That nasty basty is gone. No more groping under the burqua!
Maybe their running out of 72 virgins and giving out the generic brand now, so they have to bathe in in skin so soft.
how many of these women can even read tho? i was under the impression that their education was not as valuable as the males…
I wonder how many of these women will actually confess that their husbands blew themselves up in front of others in order to get a piece of 72 virgins. What woman with any degree of self-respect will say, yeah, that’s my beloved, he died so he can bang them and drink wine which they can also scoop from a river that runs by their fat assess on a blanket. I read about this fantasy, which was offered for every one of these chumps that are seeking to escape the misery of their present lives. So, it’s lust that is the lure, and their wives and mothers, are, sadly, very pathetic to think that this was a good thing.
What is in it for the women? An escape from a miserable existence where they’re told they’re worthless and exists only to serve the man as a sex toy? The men have their 72 (ugly) virgins…
OMG,I thought this was a joke,but its serious!!!! Seriously frightening!
Revelations from Rep. King
hearing
We learned much—not only from the testimony, but the disturbing reactions to it
Dear Madison,
Friday’s email from Lisa Piraneo provided us a disturbing look into how some members of the House Homeland Security Committee view reformist Muslims like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser. Their condescension bordering on contempt was stunning.
Perhaps just as disturbing was how many of the Muslims who attended the hearing reacted. As Lisa noted, they didn’t try very hard to conceal their ridicule and even contempt for these Muslims witnesses who had the courage to speak out against the radicalization going on in America.
One of those witnesses was Melvin Bledsoe, whose son is charged with shooting and killing a member of our armed forces at a recruiting station in Arkansas.
Mr. Bledsoe’s statement is re-printed below (highlights added). Take special note of the role he claims a Nashville mosque and its imam played. This is precisely what Brigitte Gabriel has been talking about for years, and addressed in her two best-selling books, Because They Hate and They Must Be Stopped—the growing advocacy of radical Islam inside many of America’s mosques.
Statement by Melvin Bledsoe
Father of Carlos Leon Bledsoe (aka) Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad
“The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response”
Committee on Homeland Security
US House of Representatives, Washington DC, March 10, 2011
Thank you very much for allowing me to come here and tell the country what happened to my son. This hearing today is extremely important to begin the discussion about the issue of Islamic radicalization in America and my hope is that this Committee can somehow address this issue in a meaningful, productive way.
First, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the family of Private William Long, and to the wounded soldier, Quinton Ezeagwula. I would like to talk about those complicit in Private Long’s murder – the Islamic radicals who programmed and trained my son Carlos to kill.
I want to tell the American people and the world what happened to my son. We sent him off to college at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee in the fall of 2003. Our dreams about his future ended up in a nightmare.
Carlos is my only son. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I operate a tour company in Memphis, Tennessee and Carlos started helping out with the family business at the age of eight. He loved talking to the traveling public; and he had a lot of fun interacting with the customers.
After graduating from high school, he wanted to get a degree in Business Administration. We thought perhaps he would come back to Memphis to run the business and give my wife and me early retirement.
After the fall of 2005 – his sophomore fall in Nashville –Carlos came home that Christmas for the holidays.
We were sitting around in the family room, Carlos’s only sister, Monica, her husband and I, having a normal conversation about life in general. But at a certain point, Carlos and his brother-in-law Terrell got into a heated conversation about the Muslim religion. Then and later, we felt like Carlos’s personality changed when we spoke about Islam. We thought maybe he had some Muslim friends in college and was offended by our comments.
The next time Carlos came home, we saw another side of him that we hadn’t seen before. During the night, he took down all the pictures from the walls in the bedroom where he slept. He even took Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. picture off the wall. We asked Carlos: “What is going on with you?”
He replied that he is now a new convert to Islam and that everything he does from now on will be to honor Allah. We got very concerned: While he was growing up, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s picture had always hung on his bedroom wall; but now treated the picture as if Dr. King was nobody to him.
We asked Carlos not to take Dr. King’s picture off the wall, but he took it off the wall anyway. This became a big concern to us. We went to visit him in Nashville because we wanted to learn more about what was really going on with Carlos.
We discovered that Carlos had dropped out of school, at the beginning of the 2005 fall semester. He was working a temporary job. He had gotten a dog while in college, and now we found out that he had turned the dog loose in the woods because he was told that Muslims consider dogs dirty creatures. I really couldn’t understand how he could do that, because Carlos grew up with a dog in the house since he was five years old.
So my wife and I thought that there something or someone was getting in his head and changing the way he thinks. It had gotten to the point where he had no interest in coming home, even for the holidays.
All of this was part of brainwashing him, and changing his thinking a little bit at a time. He had a job in Nashville, together with some Muslims, who would tell him that according to Islamic law, his employer had to let him pray at certain times of the day, regardless of what was going on at the job. As a business owner, I told Carlos that it would be very difficult for an employer to do this for all of his employees.
As the next step on his process of radicalization, Carlos was convinced to change his name. He chose the name Abdulhakim Muhammad. At this point, his culture was no longer important to him, only the Islamic culture mattered.
Some Muslim leaders had taken advantage of my son. But he’s not the only one being taken advantage of: this is going on in Nashville and in many other cities in America.
In Nashville, Carlos was captured by people best described as hunters. He was manipulated and lied to. That’s how he made his way to Yemen. Carlos was hoping to go there for a chance to cross over to Saudi Arabia and visit Mecca, as he was taught all true Muslims must do at one time in their life. He was taught that he would get to walk on the ground where Prophet Muhammad walked be able to travel around the area. But these hunters had other plans for him. They set him up, telling him that he could teach English at a British School in Aden in South Yemen, This school turned out to be a front and Carlos ended up in a training camp run by terrorists.
Carlos’s joining in with Yemeni extremists was facilitated by their American counterparts in Nashville. We have since discovered that the former Imam of a Nashville mosque, the Al Farooq Mosque, wrote the recommendation letter Carlos needed for the school in Yemen. We also discovered that the school functions as an intake front for radicalizing and training Westerners for Jihad.
From what I understand, the FBI had been following Carlos since before he left Nashville and continued to do so after he came back from Yemen. When Carlos was arrested for overstaying his visa in October of 2008, he was interviewed by an FBI agent based in Nashville even before the U.S. Embassy was alerted about the arrest. According to the Embassy, the FBI was alarmed about what they learned from Carlos.
We wish they could have told us – his family – about what they learned. If we knew how serious his extremism had become, we could have put in every effort to prevent the tragedy in Arkansas from happening.
When my son was arrested in Yemen, my family cried out for help in bringing our son back to America from our Government. We got in touch with the U.S. Embassy and the State Department. We also asked for help from our U.S. Representative, Steve Cohen’s office, and from FBI Special Agent Greg Thomason, who had been tracking my son since Nashville.
After our son was finally released and brought home to us. No one said anything to us about what might have happened to him in Yemen or what they may have learned that so alarmed the FBI agent who interrogated Carlos while he was in the custody of Yemen’s Political Security Organization.
Carlos’s experience in Yemeni political jail was the final stage of his radicalization. He was in there with true evil-doers – hard-core Al Qaeda members who convinced him to get revenge on America.
Something is wrong with the Muslim leadership in Nashville. What happened to Carlos at those Nashville mosques isn’t normal. I have other family members who are Muslims, and they are modern, peaceful, law abiding people, who have been Muslim for many years and are not radicalized.
I also have several uncles and brothers in the military. Our family has fought for the United States in every war since the Civil War. I have nephews who are currently in Afghanistan, as I speak, fighting for democracy and freedom for all Americans.
It seems to me that the American people are sitting around and doing nothing about Islamic extremism, as if Carlos’s story and the other stories told at these hearings aren’t true. There is a big elephant in the room, but our society continues not to see it.
This wrong is caused by political correctness. You can even call it political fear – yes, fear. Fear of stepping on a special minority population’s toes, even as a segment of that population wants to stamp out America and everything we stand for.
I must say that we are losing American babies – our children are in danger. This country must stand up and do something about this problem. Yes, it’s my son’s tragic story you’re hearing about today, but tomorrow it could be your son or your daughter. It might be an African-American child that they went after in Nashville, but tomorrow their victim might have blonde hair and blue eyes. One thing is for sure, it will happen again.
We must stop these extremist invaders from raping the minds of American citizens on American soil. Here in America today, there are people with radical Islamic political views who are organizing with one goal in mind: to convert our citizens and to turn them against the non-believers. This is a big problem now in Nashville, on college campuses and in the nearby area. Nashville has become a hot bed for radical Islamic recruiting.
Carlos grew up a happy-go-lucky kid. He always had a big smile on his face, and loved to crack a joke or two. Everyone liked him. He loved to play team sports like basketball and football. He loved swimming, dancing, and listening to music.
Today we have two families that have been destroyed. This could have been prevented. I would like to see something change so that no other family in this great country of ours has to go through what our family is facing now.
GOD HELP US! GOD HELP US!
http://www.actforamerica.org
Stay away from Tenn college ! We have got to get those out who had hidden in our schools and colleges to pray on our children.
well if I was married to a nut case I would like him to blow himself up as well…if only to set me free!
Adios nut case go take your virgins & let me live in peace ‘sorta’
When I read this then I am certain I did the right thing when I left Costco in NC because there was a group of burka clad women in the store. How do I know what they have under there? Are they going to bomb the store? Maybe..so I left quickly.
Hmmm…
Just what part of the anatomy should not be “towel[ed] too forcibly?”
Seriously, it’s just incomprehensible. However, the fact that there are millions of women who take the stuff in that “magazine” to heart, ought to scare everyone.
G-d help us all!
‘Tis to laugh, not fear such idiocy, so we’re doing just fine here with our responses.
I’ve felt sorry for Muslim women because of the severe mistreatment and opression they endure. This article paints a picture of women who have been completely indoctrinated into the jihadi mindset. However it’s hard to feel as sympathetic for these women when they seem proud to raise their children to kill others and themselves.
At the end it says the goal of the magazine is to educate and involve women. What they really mean is indoctrinate and use them. What a vicious cycle.
Is this real?? or from the Onion?
They should be shooting at the people who hacked off their clits.