article_snippet.sent: (CNN)There is a special kind of hell reserved for the women who fall into the clutches of today's Jihadi fighters.
article_snippet.sent: We are all familiar with the brutality of ISIS, the self-anointed Islamic State, or Boko Haram, the Nigerian terrorists who have pledged allegiance to ISIS.
article_snippet.sent: The jihadi chiefs treatment of The jihadi chiefs female victims plays an important part in The jihadi chiefs ambitious radical strategy.
article_snippet.sent: What they do to women has an altogether different purpose: It is part of the larger plan of building a "caliphate," a Sharia-ruled state complete with controls and norms harking back to the seventh century or, rather, to the group's interpretation of life in the early days of Islam.
article_snippet.sent: In Nigeria, Boko Haram also has a very specific approach to women.
article_snippet.sent: There, too, women captives move from house to house and village to village, forced to convert when women are not Muslim, and prepare for marriage to jihadis.
article_snippet.sent: Women were not a big part of al Qaeda's immediate plans because al Qaeda, unlike ISIS, viewed the establishment of a caliphate as a distant goal, one for future generations.
article_snippet.sent: It is no accident that Boko Haram has targeted students, as Boko Haram did in Chibok, or that Somalia's Al-Shabaab Islamists killed scores of women in the massacre at Kenya's Garissa University in Kenya.
article_snippet.sent: ISIS and Boko Haram are enslaving ISIS and Boko Haram and incorporating ISIS and Boko Haram into the daily life of territories ISIS and Boko Haram rule, subjecting ISIS and Boko Haram to asphyxiating restrictions and abuses that have caused many of ISIS and Boko Haram to attempt suicide, according to some of those who escaped -- a phenomenon reminiscent of Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban, another radical Islamic group that managed to take control and impose unspeakable rules for women.
article_snippet.sent: The worst fate is reserved for non-Muslims, such as Yazidis, but Muslim women in areas seized by Islamists have seen disaster.
highlights_snippet.sent: Frida Ghitis: ISIS and other jihadi groups see women as crucial in role of caliphate women want to create .
  