“Emancipation of women” means different things to different people, apparently.
Unfortunately, the liberals in Canada and the U.S. aren’t even the slightest bit concerned about the rights of women abroad, so the point is irrelevent to them. They are primarily concerned with how much work Halliburton is getting abroad. And more than anything else, they’re concerned about the seemingly embarrassing success and speed with which conservative Republican President George Bush has started the process of freeing two nations which were under the seemingly unstoppable oppressive women-hating hand of tyrants and murderers and terrorists, and fighting him every step of the way.
ROME—Al Qaeda has introduced an online women’s magazine with articles including dietary advice for suicide bombers and tips on how to “dominate the passions” before blowing yourself up, according to Italy’s SISDE secret service.
SISDE analysts disclosed the existence of Al Khansa, the unusual monthly Internet publication for female militants that is hosted by several Islamist Web sites, in the Italian spy service’s quarterly review Gnosis.“If you want to read up on the latest model of hijab [veil] or abaija [tunic], don’t let yourself be taken in by the rosy image on the front of Al Khansa,” the newspaper La Stampa of Turin quoted one SISDE analyst as saying.
“Among the Web pages of this newly born female review in Arabic, you won’t find the usual fashion features that fill the pages of ladies’ magazines the world over, except for a section dedicated to fitness with advice on diet and training to follow so as to acquire not a catwalk waistline, but martyrdom in the holy war.”With its bizarre format including articles on “breathing gymnastics to conquer the passions,” evidently essential knowledge for those tempted to have a final fling before strapping on an explosive-laden corset, Al Khansa could indicate that al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has made a strategic choice in favor of “women’s emancipation through martyrdom,” according to the Gnosis report.
“This is a turning point in the project planning of international terrorist networks, which until now, unlike in the Palestinian intifada or in Chechen nationalist extremism, were limited to the exclusive employment of men in operations,” the SISDE analysts said.
But, the Italian spy review said, it is not clear whether al Qaeda’s call to arms for women represents “female emancipation,” or rather “a tactic to involve all components of the [Islamic community] in the global jihad.” […]
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