ISIS Brides: Wedding Gifts To New Wives Include Suicide Vests, Machine Guns

There is a new trend in the bridal industry that is all the rage in territory controlled by ISIS: Jihadi extremists are now offering up suicide belts and machine guns as wedding gifts and/or dowries to their new brides. According to Islamic State documents seized in Libya, militants wishing to marry and who are unable to afford a dowry or wedding gift are resorting to promising non-traditional gifts to win the hand of a woman.

The Sun reported this week that military forces aligned with Libya’s unity government uncovered the strange wedding — and divorce — documents as they searched buildings in the city of Sirte. Papers indicating they were filed with the Islamic State’s Judicial and Complaints department revealed many “bizarre” marriage contracts and divorce rulings that have been drawn up by ISIS militants in lieu of traditional dowry payments and wedding gifts.

For example, Abu Mansour of Tunisia was married to a Nigerian by the name of Miriam. According to a marriage filing, there was no dowry to exchange, so Mansour vowed to provide compensation in the form “of one suicide belt” to be extended to his wife in the event of his death or should the marriage be dissolved in the future. Another document revealed that ISIS bride Fatima from Nigeria was promised an assault rifle, in particular a Kalishnikov, should she become divorced from husband Malian Abu Said. She would also receive the machine gun if he were to die.

The Sun also recalled an odd ISIS marriage certificate circulated among the extremist organization’s supporters last year where ISIS brides also proposed non-traditional stipulations. The certificate contained a clause wherein the bride was to be allowed to “carry out a suicide attack as a condition of marriage.”

Apparently, the woman was to be granted a “martyrdom operation,” one in which her husband could not forbid her involvement, should her request meet approval with ISIS leaders. The document was signed by both interested parties.

Elijah Magnier, the chief international correspondent for Al-Rai Media, was the first to share the certificate. He insisted that the agreement was not to be taken as ISIS officially allowing “jihadi brides” to enter into suicide missions.

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These contracts are not the only non-traditional marriages that ISIS fighters have been allowed. Former sex slaves have provided testimony as to captives being “married” to individual ISIS militants in order for the fighters to be absolved of the sin of adultery.

One Christian woman who allegedly escaped an ISIS slave camp bore testimony earlier this year to being sexually assaulted hundreds of times by ISIS fighters in a continual succession of marriages and divorces. As Inquistr reported, the woman, whose name was not provided to ensure her anonymity, revealed to Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesperson Saeed Mamouzini in a taped interview that she had lost her husband when ISIS militants had taken over the city of Mosul in 2014.

She, a mother of three, had gone in search of him but, when ISIS fighters discovered she had a cross tattoo on her arm, she was sent to a slave camp, where she was to be converted to Islam. It was there, under the control of an ISIS military commander who gave her to his fighters, that she would be assaulted again and again but not after being “married” and “divorced,” sometimes enduring as many as nine marriages every night of her captivity.

The woman shook with outrage at the idea that such convenient ceremonies could be considered marriages or weddings.

“For them, it was a wedding,” she said, “but what kind of wedding is this?”

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There were others who refused to bow to the will of their ISIS captors and become their sex slaves. That refusal became their death sentence. As the Inquisitr reported in June, 19 Yazidi Kurdish girls were burned alive inside a cage in a public execution in front of hundreds of onlookers after refusing to have sex with ISIS members.

In its extremist views, members of ISIS deem followers of other religions — and even members of other sects within the Islamic faith — as infidels and apostates. As such, it is ISIS’ belief that war captives can be enslaved and/or killed with impunity.

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