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Both the Islamic State and Taliban were formed by soldiers and insurgents left over from military invasions of the Middle East. The former came to prominence th
by akiselev 6y ago
Both the Islamic State and Taliban were formed by soldiers and insurgents left over from military invasions of the Middle East. The former came to prominence thanks to a lot of Bathists in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion - many were officers during Saddam's regime - and the latter by the mujahideen, who fought the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and had plenty of military hardware left over to form a powerful army afterwards.
The pressure from polygamy might have contributed to the individual motivations for some people to join those groups, but it was probably far from a significant factor in the geopolitics.
- evv555 6y ago"How the Islamic State recruits young men by kidnapping girls to be their sex slaves" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/13/islamic-state-recruits-young-men-kidnapping-girls-sex-slaves/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/13/islamic-state-re...
- pas 6y agoNon-paywalled: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/kidnapped-sex-slaves-help-isis-gain-turf-in-afghanistan-1848128 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/kidnapped-sex-slaves-help-is...
- selimthegrim 6y agoNot only that, lots of the IS people were in Saddam's Mukhabarat (intelligence), where either they had the social prestige to get matches or more crudely speaking, could probably grab women off the street.