I ONLY BUY IT FOR THE CENTERFOLD:

Helping women balance family life, jihad (Sudha Ramachandran, 9/15/04, Asia Times)

Al-Khansa is the first jihadi publication aimed exclusively at women. The magazine's first issue appeared in August and was hosted by several extremist Islamist websites. It says it is published by an organization called the Women's Information Bureau of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and claims that Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who was killed by Saudi police in a shootout in June and Issa Saad Mohammed bin Oushan, who was killed the following month, are among its founders. Al-Muqrin and Oushan figured in Saudi Arabia's list of 26 most-wanted militants.

Al-Khansa is named after a female Arab poet who was a close associate of the Prophet Mohammed. In her writings, she eulogized her brother and urged her sons to participate in the jihad. Her sons subsequently died on the battlefield.

The choice of the name al-Khansa for the magazine is not without reason. The magazine aims to motivate women to participate in jihad by bringing up their children to be good jihadis and by being supportive of their husbands, brothers and sons who are fighters.

So it's unanimous, we all want their sons and husbands dead.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 14, 2004 9:48 AM