Since the terror attacks in Paris two weeks ago, the French police have been on the hunt for Hayat Boumeddiene, the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, one of the slain gunmen. She is now suspected to be in Syria. Some news reports speculate that Ms. Boumeddiene, 26, may have been “the more radical of the two.” Yet one of the first questions that French authorities intend to ask her is, they say, “if she did this under influence, if she did it by ideology, if she did it to aid and abet.”
While much will be made in the coming months of France’s intelligence failures, the West’s inability to appreciate the role that women play in terror should come under the highest scrutiny.… Seguir leyendo »
The hunt is on for Hayat Boumeddiene, the 26-year-old woman wanted over Thursday's fatal shooting of a French policewoman. Early reports suggested she might have escaped Friday from a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris as French authorities mounted a rescue operation to free hostages being held there by Amedy Coulibaly, believed to be her boyfriend. However, CNN reports that no witness has publicly said the woman was actually at the scene of the siege, and now sources are saying she left France before the attack on the policewoman.
Boumeddiene is believed to have left France for Turkey around January 2 with the final destination of Syria, according to French and Turkish sources.… Seguir leyendo »
Recently, a young Nigerian girl—just 15 years old—approached a group of police officers and blew herself up. The attack failed; she claimed no lives but her own.
Boko Haram may have launched bloodier attacks, but I struggle to imagine a more heinous terror plot. That girl was just one of four Nigerian women to weaponize themselves this July in the populous northern city of Kano. The second attempt, targeting a shopping mall, likewise killed just the bomber. The third slaughtered three women lined up to buy oil for their cook-stoves. The fourth cut short the lives of six young people at Kano Polytechnic.… Seguir leyendo »
Los hombres que el 9 de octubre trataron de matar a Malala Yousafzai, una adolescente de solo 14 años, sabían lo que ella representa: es bien conocido el activo compromiso que tiene desde los once años con la promoción del derecho de las niñas de su región a acceder a la educación.
Aunque los esfuerzos de Malala generan la aprobación de Occidente y de algunos sectores de la sociedad pakistaní, fueron recibidos como un insulto por las fuerzas oscurantistas que el mundo conoció con el nombre de “talibanes” y que en Pakistán se hacen llamar Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan. El nombre elegido encierra una ironía, porque el término árabe Taliban se refiere a las personas que buscan ser educadas, mientras que el principal objetivo de los talibanes es mantener a las sociedades musulmanas en el atraso, para que sea más fácil convencerlas de adoptar una versión del Islam del siglo séptimo.… Seguir leyendo »
For more Iraqi women carried out suicide bombings in Iraq this week, bringing to at least 27 the number of such attacks this year in that country involving female terrorists. Anyone reading the newspapers or watching television has been treated to a flurry of popular misconceptions about the root causes of female suicide terrorism.
Women, we are told, become suicide bombers out of despair, mental illness, religiously mandated subordination to men, frustration with sexual inequality and a host of other factors related specifically to their gender. Indeed, the only thing everyone can agree on is that there is something fundamentally different motivating men and women to become suicide attackers.… Seguir leyendo »
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