I'm reasonably certain that this is not a religious phenomena, more that it is a psychological one. This pathology of marked indifference to and dependence on suffering was helped along by the religious/cultural atmosphere (that made the raped women feel worthless enough to consider death an attractive alternative). I think the people start off sick and they find whatever logic they can to justify it. However, those who use religion enjoy a certain degree of invulnerability from attack and even accusation, most of which has to do with people not wanting to criticize others' religions (especially when they are not intimately familiar with them).
Where this gets into the other point you make--women hurting women--is in the case of power. Women in this system of extremist Islam have little to no power. They are useful for things--suicide bombers, obviously, though I'm sure there are other unsavory roles they might play besides--but they are not valued. This woman probably was very determined to have her own worth. Unfortunately, she succeeded. She made herself the go-to woman for the production of reliably desperate, depressed, guilty, and suicidal would-be bombers. As I said in my post, this is a terribly efficacious little ploy, given gender biases both on the parts of the men in this terrorist group and the soldiers trying to stop them. But the women still don't matter. They're only around to be tolerated until they can die so the men have more power. This awful woman seems to have decided for herself to grab a bit of that fruit of power and nurture it. Undoubtedly, she was well-respected and constantly on call for these terrorists. She wasn't just a tool, she was an essential operator. Woman or man, that sort of power, when you have none, is intoxicating, and if you start from a questionably sane and debatable position of empathy for your fellow human beings, it's probably downright irresistible.
It saddens me that there are female misogynists, but they are EVERYWHERE. And they're not all extremists having women violated and blown up. Sometimes they're just the loathsome scum that argue their need to control wombs outranks your right to medical privacy. It's all about power and grabbing it where you can. Women who are stuck in lives of relatively little power will re-channel their desire to attain control/power into incredibly destructive forces. (Which are often directed by men, a fact that makes me as a feminist scoff at their claims that they are "empowered" at all.)
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Where this gets into the other point you make--women hurting women--is in the case of power. Women in this system of extremist Islam have little to no power. They are useful for things--suicide bombers, obviously, though I'm sure there are other unsavory roles they might play besides--but they are not valued. This woman probably was very determined to have her own worth. Unfortunately, she succeeded. She made herself the go-to woman for the production of reliably desperate, depressed, guilty, and suicidal would-be bombers. As I said in my post, this is a terribly efficacious little ploy, given gender biases both on the parts of the men in this terrorist group and the soldiers trying to stop them. But the women still don't matter. They're only around to be tolerated until they can die so the men have more power. This awful woman seems to have decided for herself to grab a bit of that fruit of power and nurture it. Undoubtedly, she was well-respected and constantly on call for these terrorists. She wasn't just a tool, she was an essential operator. Woman or man, that sort of power, when you have none, is intoxicating, and if you start from a questionably sane and debatable position of empathy for your fellow human beings, it's probably downright irresistible.
It saddens me that there are female misogynists, but they are EVERYWHERE. And they're not all extremists having women violated and blown up. Sometimes they're just the loathsome scum that argue their need to control wombs outranks your right to medical privacy. It's all about power and grabbing it where you can. Women who are stuck in lives of relatively little power will re-channel their desire to attain control/power into incredibly destructive forces. (Which are often directed by men, a fact that makes me as a feminist scoff at their claims that they are "empowered" at all.)