Shazia Mirza, who bills herself as the first devoutly Muslim female stand-up comic, has voiced her opinions on the real reason Muslim girls join Daesh. She claimed that so-called “jihadi-brides” are not appealed by religion, but instead by the opportunity to be free of their conservative upbringings.
In an interview with AFP before a gig in Paris near the site of the November Daesh-coordinated attacks, she spoke of the girls who flee their homes to marry Daesh fighters, saying that, “this is not about radicalisation, it's sexualisation.”
She argued that the lure of a “hairy, macho,” gun-toting Daesh fighter is irresistible to many Muslim girls seeking adventure and romance.
Mirza argued that Daesh are “the One Direction of Islam”, promising “no-guilt halal sex of which Allah approves.”
Coming from a devout Pakistani family, she claimed that she could understand the appeal.
“If some hot, hairy Muslim Brad Pitt had written to me at 15 and sent me pictures asking me to join him, it might have seemed like an exciting way out. But it would have been nothing to do with religion,” she said.
She reiterated the point that the girls probably have very little idea about religion at such a young age. Noting that the three British girls who left the UK to join Daesh in February 2015 would have only been around three years old during the US invasion of Iraq, she stressed that they likely had sex on their minds as opposed to religion or revenge.
