As Channel 4 News found in an investigation last year the women joining jihadis in Syria are there as wives not warriors. The weapons they carry are for their own protection.

“Maryam” said she’d like to fight, and fired off a Kalashnikov for the camera, but, dressed in a niqab with only her eyes visible, she knew her religion prevented her doing anything but supporting her husband. She saw the men as honoured to fight for Allah. “I’m in the house but at least I’m here,” she told us. And she didn’t see any difficulties in balancing her role as a warrior’s wife and a mother – bringing up one child, with another on the way – in a warzone.

“Maryam”’s marriage was arranged by her husband’s mother. But other European women are apparently setting out to snare themselves a jihadi husband.

But for all the cultural and religious reasons why it’s overwhelmingly men who are taking up arms in “Syraq” as the two most turbulent countries in the Middle East are now being dubbed, it would be sexist to insist that women, as the “weaker sex” are somehow unable to carry out the terrorist atrocities Isis has unleashed in the region.

_{Samantha Lewthwaite}

So my immediate reaction of disbelief when I heard May’s comment about the women jihadis perhaps fell into this trap. Don’t forget that the “White Widow” Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to the 7/7 suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, remains one of the world’s most wanted terrorism suspects. And “black widow” female suicide bombers have carried out many attacks in Russia.

Notice how the custom appears to be to feminise female terrorists by using the word “widow”. It’s as if we can’t quite bring ourselves to accept that women are capable of the same sort of evil as men.

_{Myra Hindley}

But they are, and they have been throughout history. Mary Bell, Myra Hindley, Rosemary West…we should be used to it by now. So while their beliefs may prevent British women entering the fray in Iraq, we shouldn’t be surprised to hear they yearn to do so.

Source :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10925034/Is-Theresa-May-right-about-British-women-jihadis-joining-Isis-to-fight-in-Syria.html