Malaysians going to Syria as ‘sex workers’

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian women, it has been alleged, are going to Syria to serve as "sex workers" for the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters.
A local news portal quoted "intelligence officials" as saying that three Malaysian women in their 30s and 40s had left for Syria to serve ISIS fighters as "comfort women".
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, when asked if there was truth to the claims, said the information was not from official police sources.
However, he said to safeguard the image of the country, police will investigate to verify if Malaysian women were involved as sex jihadists.
The radical jihadist group claims to be a defender of Middle East caliphates and gatekeepers of Islam, but it has broken a prime prohibition of the religion by calling on unmarried Muslim women to be part of their revolt in a bizarre role.
According to foreign news reports, the IS leadership had also claimed that by doing so, the women would be "cleansed of their sins" as such an act is "God's will".
In Iraqi cities occupied by ISIS, such as Mobul and Tikrit, the militants allegedly distributed leaflets calling on "mothers to surrender their daughters" – virgins or not – to partake in Jihad Al-Nikah or face deadly consequences for not doing so.
Jihad Al-Nikah is the most recent bizarre fatwa pronounced by the controversial Sunni sect allowing women to provide illicit sex to warring jihadists.
It was also reported that hundreds of women from Britain, Australia and other nations had joined ISIS as sex jihadists.