What comes out of Islam just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. First there came Inspire, the online magazine for budding jihadists which gave tips on such topics as how to build that bomb in your mother's kitchen. Now we have "Jihad Cosmo". I am not making this up, although I wish I had.
Not just tips on fashion and skin care, this new magazine promises the female reader that "...the magazine's goal is to educate women and involve them in the war against the enemies of Islam." '' Gotta look good when the bomb goes off, doncha know. You want your make-up to stay put when they find your head.
From the Mail Online March 13
Glossy 'Jihad Cosmo' combines beauty tips with suicide bombing advice
Al-Qaeda has launched a women's magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings.
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.
They said it.
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'.
I don't get the "towelling too forcibly" thing, Guess I will have to read the article.
A trailer for the next issue promises tips on skin care - and how to wage electronic jihad.
Read it all, truly a trip down the rabbit hole.
Not just tips on fashion and skin care, this new magazine promises the female reader that "...the magazine's goal is to educate women and involve them in the war against the enemies of Islam." '' Gotta look good when the bomb goes off, doncha know. You want your make-up to stay put when they find your head.
From the Mail Online March 13
Glossy 'Jihad Cosmo' combines beauty tips with suicide bombing advice
Al-Qaeda has launched a women's magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings.
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.
They said it.
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'.
I don't get the "towelling too forcibly" thing, Guess I will have to read the article.
A trailer for the next issue promises tips on skin care - and how to wage electronic jihad.
Read it all, truly a trip down the rabbit hole.
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