Terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed’s founder Masood Azhar launches a female jihad wing, using warped empowerment to recruit women.
- 🧕 When “Empowerment” Gets Hijacked
- 💣 The Announcement No One Asked For
- 🧩 Why This Matters — Beyond Pakistan’s Borders
- 🎭 The Propaganda Behind the Pitch
- 🧠 Inside Azhar’s Playbook
- 🕵️♀️ Pakistan’s Usual “See-No-Evil” Approach
- 🧕 Women and Extremism: The Global Context
- 📣 The Real Danger — Indoctrination, Not Guns
- 🔍 The Irony That Writes Itself
- 🧭 What Needs to Be Done
- 🗣 Featured FAQs
🧕 When “Empowerment” Gets Hijacked
In a world where women are leading boardrooms, startups, and revolutions — somewhere across the border, a terror ideologue is trying to lead women into war.
Yes, Masood Azhar, the man behind Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) — one of Pakistan’s most notorious terror outfits — has launched a “female jihad wing.”
If irony had a face, this would be it.
A man known for brainwashing teenage boys into violence now claims to be “empowering women for jihad.”
💣 The Announcement No One Asked For
Reports from Pakistani and Indian intelligence agencies reveal that Masood Azhar has floated an all-women propaganda and recruitment wing.
This so-called “Female Jihad Brigade” — inspired by ISIS and Al-Qaeda’s online female operations — aims to indoctrinate women and young girls into extremist ideology through encrypted online channels, sermons, and social media groups.
According to The Hindu’s South Asia analysis, JeM’s female wing has been active under the radar for months, focusing on propaganda that glorifies martyrdom and religious duty while disguising it as social service and community “education.”
In other words, Azhar’s new wing wants to recruit homemakers into hate-makers.
🧩 Why This Matters — Beyond Pakistan’s Borders
At first glance, this might look like another extremist stunt. But security experts aren’t laughing.
Women have long been viewed by terror organizations as “force multipliers.” They’re less likely to be suspected, often underestimated, and can operate discreetly within communities.
ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al-Qaeda all weaponized women’s roles — not by liberating them, but by turning them into tools for logistics, recruitment, and even suicide missions.
By launching this so-called “female jihad initiative,” Masood Azhar isn’t introducing innovation — he’s copying a dangerous template that’s already destabilized societies from Syria to Nigeria.
And that’s why this move alarms security circles across South Asia.
🎭 The Propaganda Behind the Pitch
The campaign uses the same psychological bait that extremist groups have used for years:
faith, fear, and false pride.
The new JeM propaganda, circulated through encrypted Telegram and WhatsApp groups, reportedly features:
- Stories of “brave sisters” supporting jihad at home.
- Religious sermons twisting verses to justify violence.
- Calls for “mothers to raise fighters.”
The message? “Be part of something holy.”
The truth? “Be part of a terror ecosystem.”
Masood Azhar has always understood one thing very well — wars aren’t fought only with guns. They’re also fought with narratives.
And this time, he’s weaponizing the narrative of empowerment — twisting it into submission.
🧠 Inside Azhar’s Playbook
If you look at Jaish-e-Mohammed’s strategy since the early 2000s, it’s built on emotional exploitation:
- Boys are taught that violence is devotion.
- Families are told martyrdom brings blessings.
- And now, women are told that jihad is their form of empowerment.
This is psychological warfare disguised as religious duty.
Intelligence sources believe the female jihad unit’s immediate focus isn’t to send women into battlefields, but to spread ideology, collect funds, and encourage young men within their families to join the cause.
Essentially — a terror group’s homegrown PR department.
🕵️♀️ Pakistan’s Usual “See-No-Evil” Approach
And where is Pakistan’s state machinery in all of this?
Probably doing what it does best — pretending to be surprised.
Despite Jaish-e-Mohammed being a UN-designated terror outfit, the Pakistani establishment has historically looked the other way, using such groups as “strategic assets.”
Masood Azhar has been “missing” more times than he’s been found guilty.
Yet somehow, he always resurfaces with a fresh sermon, a new alias, or now — a “women’s division.”
It’s a pattern so old that even the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has stopped being impressed by Islamabad’s “we’re investigating” routine.
🧕 Women and Extremism: The Global Context
The rise of female participation in extremist networks is a disturbing global trend.
From Europe’s “jihadi brides” joining ISIS, to women-led radical content creators online, extremism has evolved — it’s now gender-inclusive in the worst way possible.
Scholars like Farah Pandith, author of How We Win, point out that radical groups often exploit genuine feelings of frustration and isolation among women. They offer belonging, purpose, and identity — then replace freedom with fanaticism.
In JeM’s case, that means taking advantage of Pakistan’s existing gender inequality and economic distress to push women toward extremist narratives.
So while the rest of the world is fighting for equal pay, Azhar is fighting for equal hate.
📣 The Real Danger — Indoctrination, Not Guns
Let’s be clear — JeM’s “female wing” isn’t about women picking up weapons tomorrow.
It’s about planting seeds — emotional manipulation, generational indoctrination, and long-term radicalization.
Security experts warn that this approach is more dangerous than direct militancy.
Why?
Because ideology is harder to dismantle than an AK-47.
It creeps into homes, schools, and mosques — turning mothers into unwitting recruiters and families into echo chambers.
And in a country where literacy gaps and unemployment are high, this “female jihad” strategy finds fertile ground.
🔍 The Irony That Writes Itself
Masood Azhar’s version of “female empowerment” is almost comedic — if it weren’t so chilling.
He’s selling oppression in the language of liberation.
He calls it education, but it’s indoctrination.
He calls it empowerment, but it’s enslavement of thought.
It’s the extremist version of a bad PR campaign — the kind that tries to rebrand fanaticism as faith.
And the worst part? It works — because no one’s countering that narrative loudly enough.
🧭 What Needs to Be Done
This isn’t just Pakistan’s problem. It’s a South Asian security issue that can spill across borders through digital radicalization.
India, Bangladesh, and even Sri Lanka have seen instances of women radicalized online under similar campaigns.
To counter this, experts suggest:
- Community awareness programs that educate women about digital manipulation.
- Collaboration between tech platforms and intelligence agencies to identify extremist channels early.
- Empowering women through education, not indoctrination.
Because the only real antidote to fake empowerment — is authentic freedom.
Masood Azhar’s female jihad isn’t empowerment — it’s exploitation wearing eyeliner.
🗣 Featured FAQs
Q1. What is Masood Azhar’s Female Jihad Wing?
It’s a new propaganda arm of Jaish-e-Mohammed that aims to recruit and radicalize women through online sermons and extremist messaging.
Q2. Why is this significant?
Because it marks a shift in JeM’s strategy — targeting women as indirect enablers and ideological multipliers rather than fighters.
Q3. How does this compare to ISIS or Al-Qaeda tactics?
It mirrors their model of using women for propaganda, fund collection, and psychological influence within families.
Q4. What’s Pakistan’s stance?
So far, there’s silence. Despite JeM being banned, enforcement has always been weak and politically selective.
Q5. How can such extremism be countered?
By strengthening education, digital literacy, and women’s social empowerment to neutralize radical recruitment narratives.
If this story made you pause — good.
Because silence feeds extremism faster than ideology does.
Share this article on your circles, talk about how narratives shape societies, and remind people that real empowerment means freedom to choose, not orders to obey.
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