(This mini-series of classics covers a few of my recent long posts, the ones that required a lot of hard work. Each of them is of value about the individual phenomenon it covers, but I hope that each of them is also of value in a more general sense.
This series of posts (still missing the fourth post, sorry*) is about the views of ISIS/IS/Islamic State on women's proper position, about its views concerning sexual slavery as proper and legal and about the reasons why Western women have joined it.
The series is an example of how extreme subjugation of women might look like. In that sense it's not easily generalizable to other movements wanting that extreme subjugation, mostly because they don't have the power. But many of the principles of ISIS are basic social conservatism principles taken to the absurd end point (patriarchal marriage where the man is the leader, the control of women, the attribution of all sexual attraction or abuse to the sin of being female in the wrong place or at the wrong time or dressed wrong, the insistence of keeping women inside the house etc.)
The posts are here, in order:
Introduction
The Rules for Sunni Women
Sexual Slavery of the Yazidi Girls And Women
Western Women Joining ISIS
Note that people are fighting back, in general against the Islamic State and in particular for the enslaved Yazidis. Here is a heart-warming story about the latter.
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* I have no other excuse for that except I don't want yet another couple of weeks of nightmares right now.