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The Al-Khansaa Brigade, also spelled Al-Khanssaa Brigade, is an all-women police or religious enforcement unit of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), operating in its ''de facto'' capital of Raqqa and Mosul.〔(How the Islamic State uses women to control women ) | Syria Direct |March 25, 2015〕 Formed in early 2014 and apparently named after Al-Khansa, a female Arabic poet from the earliest days of Islam, it is unclear how widespread and sustained the group is. It is unique in the Muslim world where in other regimes with religious police (such as Saudi Arabia) men enforce hisbah among women, and in the Islamic State has not spread outside of the capital Raqqah, leading one observer to wonder if it is a publicity "stunt" that will be “short-lived".〔 An ISIL official, Abu Ahmad, said in 2014, "We have established the brigade to raise awareness of our religion among women, and to punish women who do not abide by the law."〔(In Raqqa, an All-Female ISIS Brigade Cracks Down on Local Women ), Syria Deeply, by Ahmad al-Bahri, 15 July 2014〕 The outfit has also been called ISIL's 'moral police'.〔(The ISIS Crackdown on Women, by Women ), The Atlantic, by Kathy Gilsinan, 25 Jul 2014〕 Women who go out without a male chaperone or aren’t fully covered in public are subject to arrests and beatings by Al-Khansaa.〔(The ISIS Crackdown on Women, by Women ), The Atlantic, by Kathy Gilsinan, 25 Jul 2014〕 An example of crimes punished and sentences administered by al-Khansaa were those for two women in the ISIL capital of Al-Raqqah in 2015, who received 20 lashes for wearing form-fitting abayas, five for wearing makeup underneath their abayas, and another five for "not being meek enough when detained". The brigade has its own facilities to prevent mingling between men and women.〔 According to defectors interviewed by Sky News, al-Khansa Brigade includes many foreign women. Recruits are "trained for a month". Their pay is estimated to be "between £70 and £100 per month". Members carry guns and may be jihad fighters (many European women who fight on the front line) or women who "police the streets and look after the city’s affairs", and tend to be Arabs. According to one source hostile to ISIL, women in the territory administered by ISIL are not allowed to drive cars or carry weapons, but women in the Khansaa Brigade "can do both".〔 ==See also== * List of armed groups in the Syrian Civil War * Women in warfare and the military (2000–present) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al-Khansaa Brigade」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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