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One of the most odious defences of the ‘ISIS brides’ whom the Albanese government went to such extraordinary lengths to smuggle back into Australia, is the weepy, tilty-headed pathological empathy of wittering, ‘Oh, but they just made a mistake when they were young’. Pardon me while I vomit.
Shoplifting a girly mag from the local newsagent is a youthful mistake. Sculling a bottle of Johnny Walker out the back of the Blue Light Disco is a teenage indiscretion. Watching some Islamic snuff videos and seeing Islamic slave markets on YouTube and deciding you want in on the head-chopping, sex-slaving action, and travelling halfway across the world to do so – that’s something much, much worse than misguided adolescent enthusiasm.
Make no mistake, the women the Labor government and the venal ‘human rights’ set are so gaga about are the slime of humanity. They didn’t ‘make a mistake’, they willingly flocked to a sideshow of Islamic horror and joined in for all they were worth. Don’t be fooled by the crocodile tears now they’ve been caught.
Accused slave owner Zeinab Ahmad didn’t just follow her former Jihadi husband into the heart of the Islamic State, she celebrated atrocities, advocated for brutal violence against the US and its allies, and ultimately embedded herself onto the payroll of a terrorist regime, a court has heard.
The 31-year-old former ISIS bride appeared before Chief Magistrate Lisa Hannan in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday for a high-stakes bail application, where federal police detailed Australia’s first prosecution for crimes against humanity.
According to police, in May 2017 a 15-year-old Yazidi girl who had already been sold through 17 different owners was brought to a house in Mayadin, Syria. She was inspected by Ahmad’s father, Muhammad Ahmad, who allegedly told her he was buying her for “sexual relations and domestic housework”. The court heard he paid $US10,000 cash for her at a local slave market. Ahmad’s mother, Kawsar Abbas, allegedly consented to the purchase.
The girl was held in the household for 16 months as the family moved between Mayadin, Raqqa and Hajin. She was locked inside, denied a phone, forbidden from leaving unaccompanied and forced to do all the cleaning. Police allege she was routinely assaulted by Muhammad Ahmad, including one occasion when he dragged her down two flights of concrete stairs. The court was told that both Zeinab Ahmad and her mother were present in the house during these assaults and did nothing to intervene.
In case you doubt their disgusting complicity, the evidence presented already shows their participation went well beyond passive presence.
Police allege Ms Abbas had enforced the enslavement by forcing the alleged victim to read the Koran, threatening to have her beaten or resold if she disobeyed, and stating she must learn to use firearms because they had to follow the ISIS police. The young Yazidi girl reported seeing both Ms Abbas and Ms Ahmad in possession of Glock pistols and AK-47 assault rifles, as well as large quantities of ISIS paper currency.
Zeinab Ahmad’s own actions and social media bragging after her husband was killed in a coalition drone strike in 2016 make the ‘trapped young bride’ narrative impossible to sustain. Rather than trying to return to Australia, she took a job with the official ISIS Women’s and Orphans Department in Raqqa. Her social media posts at the time were very far from those of a reluctant participant. One read: “I ask Allah to accept this sacrifice of ours.” Another declared: “May Allah destroy the United States and its allies.”
That includes Australia, by the way: the very country she now claims to be desperate to return to and whose taxpayers are going to be forking out millions every year from now on, not just keeping her in a life of welfare, but to constantly make sure she doesn’t start going all allahu akbar on more innocent civilians.
This is the reality behind the sentimental hand-wringing over “ISIS brides”. These were not naive girls who stumbled into a bad situation. They knowingly and actively supported and took enthusiastic part in the Islamic State’s ideology, its atrocities and its system of sexual slavery.
There is a difference between a mistake and a deliberate embrace of evil. The women who made that choice do not deserve special sympathy or special treatment. They certainly didn’t deserve to be shepherded to Australia, to sponge off its taxpayers and be an ever-present threat for the rest of their hopefully short lives.
