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“Sixty British Women Join is 'Modesty Police'”
by Arutz Sheva
September 8th, 2014

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British women and Islamist extremists have joined forces again, international media reported Monday - this time, to suppress women's rights in Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS) territory in Syria.

Tens of female jihadists from the UK have joined IS's al-Khaansa Brigade which operates to punish women 'deviating' from strict moral and modesty codes in the IS headquarter city of Raqqah.

Of those, four women have been positively identified by academics at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization, at King’s College London, according to the Mirror. They are Aqsa Mahmood, 20, from Glasgow; Sixteen year-old twins Salma and Zahra Halane, from Manchester; and convert to Islam Sally Jones, 45, from Chatham, Kent.

ICSR researchers believe as many as sixty women with UK citizenship have joined the "modesty police" forces in Syria, mostly between ages 18-24.

Little is known about al-Khansaa, but researchers say they may be linked to the same British IS terrorists who likely killed American journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff.

“Al-Khanssaa is a sharia law police brigade," Melanie Smith, a research associate at ICSR, told the British Telegraph. "This is IS’s female law enforcement."

"We think it’s a mixture of British and French women but its social media accounts are run by the British and they are written in English," she added. “Given how small the community networks are - we know there are about 500 male British jihadis out there - it is quite likely these women move in the same circles as the British killer of Foley and Sotloff.”

The brigade is tasked with walking through the streets of Raqqa and breaking up 'inappropriate' gatherings between men and women and quashing any connection to Western culture.

At least one report, from the US-based Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium, states that each woman receives just $120 per month for her services in the Brigades, and are forced to wear back robes.

The dress code, at least, has been corroborated by Twitter photos from alleged members of the modesty squad - and show women fully clad in dark robes and burqas.

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