Tensions are rising between the Islamic State’s female loyalists and others who fled the battlefront of the group’s self-declared caliphate.
Al-Hol displacement camp in northeastern Syria houses relatives of members of the Islamic State and others who have fled violence.
“We hope that the [Islamic] state will come back,” said Um Aisha, 22, an Iraqi resident of the camp. “We had sharia law there. Here, there is only corruption.” “What we did is we took Baghouz and we brought it here,” said Mahmoud Gadou, a Kurdish official responsible for displaced people in northeast Syria.
“Some of these people came from areas that were already conservative, even if they didn’t support the Islamic State,” said Mohamed Bashir, head of public relations for the camp’s Kurdish-led administration. “But now, they are even more extreme. The tensions are high.” Some women were too intimidated by the true believers to discuss the tensions at the camp or whether they had been targeted.
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