| Abstract [eng] |
ISIS is the first terrorist organisation, which attracted the largest number of women from Western countries, comparing to other terrorist organisations of all the time, offering life in a traditional Islamic „caliphate“ under sharia law. The aim of this thesis is to examine female role making, based on religious discourse in ISIS ideological magazines "Dabiq" and "Rumiyah". The methodology of the thesis is Critical Discourse Analysis by N. Fairclough (1993 m.). The Role Identity theory by D. M. Sluss, R. van Dick and B. Thompson, and Social Identity theory by H. Tajfel and J. C. Turner will be used. The tasks of the theoretical part of the thesis are: to review the scientific literature on how ISIS ideology exploits religious discourse to encourage women to implement certain roles; to review the prevailing attitude about women participation in jihad from traditional islam and terrorist organisations point of view. The objectives of the research part of the thesis are: to investigate the dominant roles of women in ISIS magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah; to analyze the rhetoric used in articles which aims to create the importance of women's roles; examine how the roles of women could be useful for constructing the future of the ISIS "caliphate" and its community. The study revealed that the magazines maintain the continuation of conservative and passive roles of women that do not encourage physical jihad. Likewise, the roles of a woman are formed in relations with other individuals, so as to manipulate other members of the ISIS "state" community through women. Research can be useful for institutions investigating the rhetoric of terrorist organizations to recruit female members. |
