Oumaima Chouay
Oumaima Chouay is a a Canadian women who was held for several years in a refugee camp in Syria, after living in the Daesh-controlled region of Syria known as the "Islamic State", prior to its collapse.[1]
The radical Daesh group maintained a quasi-state in enclaves of Syria and Iraq, from approximately 2014 to 2019. During this time thousands of sympathetic foreigners traveled to the Daesh-controlled region. Men who travelled to the region were encouraged to become soldiers. While casualties among these volunteers were very high most of them were religious extremists who believed dying in battle guanranteed them entry into heaven, along with 72 heavenly sex-slaves.
Women who travelled to the region were immediately locked in to barracks, from which fighters would pick them to be their wives. Many teenage women, who made their way to the Daesh-controlled region did so after being recruited by glowing accounts of the freedom to practice their religion, via social media. So, they found it shocking that their cellphones were immediately seized.
Anyone attempting to defect from Daesh was severely punished up to and including torture and brutal public execution. Some women reported they had no idea how brutal the Daesh regime would be, and wanted to immediately turn around and go home, but could not, due to the policy of punishing or executing defectors. Other women acknowledge that they were extremely religious, when they arrived, but lost that extremism due to the regime's bruality, and after losing their husbands in battle, and then finding the regime not fulfilling its promises to support the widows and orphans of fighters. Several women have described how helpless they felt having to watch their children starve to death.
Kimberley Gwen Polman, Chouay, and her two children, were the first Canadians repatriated from Syria, arriving on October 26 of 2022.[1]
Both Polman and Chouay were taken into custody.[2] But only Chouay was deemed a threat, and ended up facing criminal charges. Polman was given a kind of supervised release.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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- ↑ "Women, kids detained in ISIS camps should be repatriated to Canada quickly: expert". Chat News Today (Montreal). 2022-10-30. https://chatnewstoday.ca/2022/10/30/women-kids-detained-in-isis-camps-should-be-repatriated-to-canada-quickly-expert/. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
