Category: Suicide Bombing

Wafa Idris was the first Palestinian female suicide bomber who was twenty-seven when she killed herself along with two Israelis in Jerusalem, 2002. She had strapped on ten kilograms of explosives to her body, without any questions. This act of terror signified the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis increasing to new extents, leaving both the…

An example of this is Andaleeb Takatkehs video testimony which was aired in mostly all Arabic satellite television channels, right before her suicide bombing. In her testimony she wore a black-and-white checked kuffiyeh around her arms, along with a white headscarf. The kuffiyeh had an illustration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque (figure 1). She also read…

The previous paper discussed whether women taking front-line roles in terrorist organisations is a form of progression against gender-based violence, or a form of regression as it perpetuates the oppression of women by terrorist groups. I hypothesised that terrorist groups capitalise on gender inequalities, making women canvas for the articulation of their personal political or…

Fearfulness has been created in the public domain around organized crime with major attention around hijacking since 9/11/2001(Strang, 2018). The definition of hijacking has been characterised as a form of hostage-taking. Silke (2019) classified hostage-taking in to three different approaches, in which is defined that removal of a person against their will is determined by…

In 2017, a group of women who had bombs tied to their body has resulted in the massacre of hundreds of civilians in north-east Nigeria. These women have been labeled as suicide bombers by the people of Nigeria and the world. Adding to the fact that these girls are Muslims, the load of existing stereotypes…

The purpose of this literature review is to look at the current research on female terrorist recruitment, the research on female terrorism in IS and the role of Dabiq in recruitment. Women in terrorism Although female terrorist research is indeed under-researched, there are some scholars that have appreciated its importance. Womens participation in terrorism is…