New Jihadi Magazine for Women

Al Fajr Media Center just released the first issue of a new magazine, titled

Al-Shamikha [Arabic for "Majestic"], which is exclusively for women. The magazine discusses everything a woman needs to know about first aid, skin care, jewelry … AND of course, how to participate in Jihad. According to the magazine, women are responsible for raising their children to become the next generation of mujahideen.

“Muslim women are the nursemaids for the next generation.. She is the support, the forearm, to the Knights of today among the men of Islam. Women bear the greatest burden in saving the nation from the slough of ignorance and weakness that she experienced for a long time.”

This isn’t the first magazine to target women. In fact, Al Qaeda and it’s supporters periodically come out with new magazines like this one – remember the Benefit of the Day magazine, al-Khansaa magazine, and more recently Hafi

dat Al-Khansaa [Arabic for "Granddaughter's of al-Khansaa"].

Most recently Zachary Chesser, sentenced last week on terror charges, created his own English-language magazine titled Raising Al-Qaa’ida (pictured right) that specifically targeted women. Like Al-Shamikha, Chesser’s magazine empowered women to teach their children the values of jihad so that they grow up to be mujahideen.

In the past few years there has been a huge increase in the number of American women participating in terror – both on their own and in partnership with their husbands – including Chesser’s wife, Proscovia Nzabanita, who will be deported for covering up her husbands plans. Not to mention that she herself was active – and still is active – in the online extremist community.