What do we get wrong about female terrorists?
How we fetishize and underestimate women who join IS.
An episode of the Beyond Today podcast, hosted by BBC Radio 4, titled "What do we get wrong about female terrorists?" was published on February 19, 2019 and runs 20 minutes.
February 19, 2019 ·20m · Beyond Today
Summary
Four years ago, at the age of 15, Shamima Begum ran away from home in East London to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Now she’s 19, has just given birth in a refugee camp - and wants to come home. There has been huge interest in the story, but are we missing out on a bigger and more complex picture when it comes to understanding the role of women in IS? In the second of this series on IS we hear from the BBC’s Daniel De Simone about other foiled terrorist plots and the role women played in hatching them. And academics Joana Cooke and Gina Vale tell us what people get wrong about radicalised women.Producers: Lucy Hancock and Georgia Coan Mixed by Weidong Lin Editor: Philly Beaumont
Episode Description
Four years ago, at the age of 15, Shamima Begum ran away from home in East London to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Now she’s 19, has just given birth in a refugee camp - and wants to come home. There has been huge interest in the story, but are we missing out on a bigger and more complex picture when it comes to understanding the role of women in IS? In the second of this series on IS we hear from the BBC’s Daniel De Simone about other foiled terrorist plots and the role women played in hatching them. And academics Joana Cooke and Gina Vale tell us what people get wrong about radicalised women.
Producers: Lucy Hancock and Georgia Coan Mixed by Weidong Lin Editor: Philly Beaumont