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How ISIS Women Use Telegram To Raise Fund, Smuggle Out Their Sons, And Force Teens To Impregnate Them

Tags: women camp isis
25/02/2023

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is known for blending graphic audiovisual content with ideological religious writings to sanction and justify violent terrorist tactics throughout the world.

And here, ISIS members are known to heavily utilize the internet to their advantage, not only to bolster its expansion, but to also get new recruits through the dissemination of their ideology worldwide.

Terrorist groups and their members have used platforms like such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Tumblr to distribute such content, simply because through those platforms, they can easily get mass attention, the easy way.

While some platforms have taken steps to address the issues of bad actors on their platforms, one notable holdout is Telegram.

Telegram is an encrypted, and privacy-focused platform, and that the app is extremely popular amongst terrorists who are using it to communicate and spread their propaganda.

While most active terrorist members are men, Women are also "jihadists" in their own way.

Mothers at the camps dress their children as ISIS fighters holding plastic weapons. The children are also photographed making oaths in the Camp tents.

According to reports, women from ISIS have also use Telegram to fill in certain gaps that men cannot, or may not, occupy.

While findings suggest that ISIS’s approach concerning women’s roles within the organization cannot be equal to men, the group has experienced challenges that forced it to deal with existential threats. And this in turn forced them to utilize more unconventional means.

And one such solution is to tentatively push the boundaries of the permissibility of women’s engagement in active combat, as well as allowing, or making them work using the internet.

At Syria, thousands upon thousands of alleged ISIS members have been imprisoned, many of whom are women and children.

Many of these ISIS-affiliated women and children had either surrendered or were captured as a result of the territorial defeats of the Islamic State.

Living way below poverty and waiting for repatriate that isn't certain, a number of people have started Telegram channels to receive attention and gain others' compassion. Through the channels, they said that many of the women are resilient and patient, and aren't complaining about the difficult living conditions they live in.

But because many of the channels are linked to ISIS themselves, they are made to spread the propaganda.

But for diehard fans of the ideology who even refused repatriation, these women still hold true to their beliefs of the ideology. Dealing with these women, the Telegram channels said that the women expressed their worries about ISIS fighters, their husbands and brothers, who are valiantly fighting against the ”Kurdish dogs”.

While some of the women want nothing more to do with ISIS, others actually continue their dedication to the caliphate.

These women remain devotees who are brainwashing their children and tormenting others who have called it quits.

And here, the channels plea for finance support, and to ask others for help for the sake and to have their children smuggled out.

To help with this daring attempt, the ISIS-linked Telegram channels have created buy-and-sell markets of secondhand goods, where proceeds generated from this business would then be utilized for both financing the monthly expenses of the women in ISIS camps, and to pay smugglers smuggle the boys

But later, this approach is allegedly used in an unexpected twisted plot, where teens are farmed for their sperm.

Children gather on March 10 in Camp al-Hol, where they face uncertain future. (Credit: Robin Wright for Foreign Policy)

Two boys, Ahmet, 13, and Hamid, 14, have come forward to claim that they were victims of a campaign ran by older ISIS women.

They said that they are amongst at least a dozen of teenagers forced to impregnate a number of women held in the camps.

“We are being forced to have sex with the ISIS women, to impregnate them,” the two boys said to a guard at Camp al-Hol in northeast Syria, according to Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) officials.

“Can you get us out of here?”

At this time, Camp al Hol is one of the detention centers housing for ISIS-affiliated women and children who surrendered or were captured as a result of ISIS' 2019 territorial defeat.

In the beginning of 2019, the camp held around 10,000 people. But by 2021, the camp's population had grown significantly to around 60,000.

Approximately 8,000 of them are foreigners.

About a third of this are women, and the remaining two-third are children.

The children living and growing up at Camp al-Hol, come from dozens of countries across four continents. (Credit: Robin Wright for Foreign Policy)

These woman and children live together through uncertainties, simply because their own nations continue to refuse to repatriate them, and even refuse the repatriation of their children.

Since time passes, people will become older.

And at the camp, when boys reached puberty, they have to leave the camps, and are transferred to other facilities to rehabilitate.

The thing is, their pro-ISIS mothers begged, and through Telegram, many have successfully raised money to smuggle their sons out of the camp and into the hands of terrorists.

And here, the two boys said that at the Orkesh rehabilitation center that they became the subject to sexual exploitation by a group of ISIS women.

A woman walks pass occupied tents at the Camp al-Hol in Syria, Oct. 16, 2019. (Credit: Y. Boechat/VOA)

According to an interview with The Daily Beast, employees of the facility said that one of the boys said he was forced to have sexual intercourse multiple times per day.

And sometimes, he was forced to "sleep" with eight different ISIS women in a few days time.

The boys have reached puberty, meaning that they're able to reproduce. To make them able to "perform" with the many women, the boys were given a Viagra-like substance.

They were exploited mercilessly, that one of the boys in Camp al Roj is said to have ended up in the hospital collapsing after ingesting too much of the substance.

Whether or not the boys were made sex slaves of the ISIS women, and victims of women pedophiles, what's certain here is that, the officials said the ISIS women in Camp al-Hol wanted the teens to impregnate them so they can increase the population of ISIS, which they believe is going to be reinstated when fighters come and free them from their captivity.

The women went to such great length, simply because there are no men in the camps to have sex with.

At this time, no one really knows the exact number of pregnancies in the camps, but the SDF intelligence who monitor the camps said that there are many.

In theory, this shouldn't be possible because men and women are held in different facilities. Pregnancies may have been the result of illicit relationships with guards, despite safeguards in place to make sure that doesn’t happen.

But in this case, the officials said that they are certain the boys are being exploited by ISIS women.

Allegedly, the ISIS women at Camp al-Hol hid this practice by giving birth without anyone's help, and are only aided by their fellow detainees who had a life working as doctors or nurses.

A number of women gather in front of a store at Camp al-Hol in Syria, Oct. 16, 2019. (Credit: Y. Boechat/VOA)

The people at the SDF and the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES) have lots of work to do.

At first, they have to keep surrendered and captured ISIS-affiliated families together. Many of these people are traumatized by their experiences with the ISIS, and helping them maintain a balanced mental and physical health is the key for them to heal.

At the same however, the officials have to separate boys who have reached puberty. Both the SDF and AANES take this step to protect them from sexual predation and abuse of the women, and also protecting the women from potential harassment.

The al Roj administration pointed to the rape of a girl in the camp by one of the adolescent boys. There are also other evidence that suggest some pubescent males are acting as predators on younger boys.

Also, the officials are doing this to disrupt the gangs of violent boys who burn tents and create chaos in the camps.

Many of these boys are apparently organized by their pro-ISIS mothers.

It's worth noting that boys who reached puberty are not housed in facilities meant for adult men.

Instead, they are put in a dedicated rehabilitation center where they are protected from the dangerous conditions in the camps, to receive psychotherapy and support in a secure environment until their countries decide to repatriate them.

Both the SDF and AANES wish that they can send of the boys home before they reach adulthood.

While the SDF and AANES are doing what they can to maintain peace and order, a UN report criticizes this.

"We are extremely concerned that serious harm may befall these boys and fear they may be forcibly disappeared and subject to sale, exploitation and abuse, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment," the intergovernmental organization said.

In response, the camp director said that the boys live in the rehabilitation center, and that “the boys are definitely not for sale.”

The UN's worries came it realizes that sexual exploitation, abuse, radicalization, and disappearance do happen, and that they target boys.

Many of the boys affected have been smuggled by their ISIS mothers out to terrorist groups who are eager to receive them.

These happen no only at Camp al-Hol, but also at Camp al-Roj.

Many of the communications made, were facilitated by Telegram.

Shamima Begum pictured at a camp in northern Syria on February 22, 2019. She left the UK to join ISIS at the age of 15, and has lost her appeal against the decision to revoke her British citizenship. (Credit: Sam Tarling/Getty Images)

Founder and head of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been under considerable pressure to allow governments’ access to the platform.

Durov has refused to comply.

Even after a Russian court banned Telegram in April 2018. Durov still refused to give the government what they want.

"The power that local governments have over IT is based on money. At any given moment, a government can crash their stocks by threatening to block revenue streams from its markets and force these companies to do strange things. At Telegram we have the luxury of not caring about revenue streams or sales. Privacy is not for sale and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed," he said.

While Durov wants to maintain the privacy and secrecy of Telegram users, this fact makes Telegram the preferred platform for many criminals, including ISIS members.

Despite ISIS’ territorial losses, the organization has a strong online presence, and that it has been using Telegram to increase its reach to more regions and more people in other languages.



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