Belgian-Moroccan Women Lured to Syria for ’Sex Jihad’, Study Reveals

They all have a similar background. One told Aicha Bacha that her husband, whom she had accompanied to Syria, died shortly after their arrival in the country. It was difficult for her to return to Belgium. Resigned, she remarries there with a man who came from the Netherlands. This is the beginning of a nightmare. My mission was "to do the housework, to dress properly and to take care of my new husband and meet his (especially sexual) needs when he returned from the fighting," she recounts. "I sometimes had the impression that I was just a sexual object. My duty as a wife forced me to endure all this," she explains to Aicha Bacha.

The adventure begins the same way for the second young woman. She loses her husband and marries another one. The only difference is that the latter was already married. Considered "a husband thief," she was mistreated, beaten by the other wife and by her mother, as well as by the husband. According to the latter, she "did not fulfill her duty by not obeying the other women when he was not there." She managed to escape and return to Brussels, "60% disabled." Her family and entourage consider her a lost woman, "worthless," who "has no life ahead of her."

The third one also loses her husband in Syria. But he died "as a martyr," in a suicide attack. No longer able to be useful in combat after losing a leg, Daesh sends her to blow herself up. Helped by a French woman, the Belgian joins Brussels via Turkey. Incarcerated for a few months, she gets out of prison, hoping to become a teacher. A hope dashed because of her criminal record. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation "does not entrust children to those who have been convicted in criminal court" for "departure to a prohibited war zone accompanied by a terrorist." She still manages to get a job in a travel agency and tries to rebuild her life. But "the scars of what she experienced in Syria are still there, despite everything."

According to Aicha Bacha, the women left for Syria in search of "the attraction of a better world, without hypocrisy." But Daesh "transformed them into recruiters, propagandists and objects of pleasure," says the one who conducted the investigation "The Jihad in Heritage on Belgian Territory" of which a first part was presented by La Dernière Heure.