How to please your holy warrior – Jihadist women’s magazines

The Economist (02/01/2018)
  • December 2017: al-Qaeda launches magazine Beituki (“Your Home”) advising how jihadists’ wives should support their men.
  • Suggestions include staying indoors at all times and making the home “paradise on Earth.”
  • It also calls on wives to support their men on jihad missions even though the may never return.
  • Some speculate that the magazine was launched as a reaction against IS’ incorporation of women into fighting forces.