(MENAFN- Arab News)JEDDAH: Terrorist groups have infiltrated societies where women have special privacy such as Saudi Arabia. However security authorities in the Kingdom arrested several women involved in terrorist activities while there are other women who escaped abroad to join terrorist groups. Saudi security authorities estimate the number of women who escaped abroad to be 46.
A number of women transformed their activities to support terrorist groups through social networking websites. Um Ouis 27 years old is one of these women and she is the first woman to face trial as a result of her terrorist activities. She has been accused of belonging to Daesh offering allegiance to its leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi printing publications and pasting them on mosque walls and light poles in the streets of Onaizah according to a media report.
Um Ouis was a postgraduate student with an MSc in Islamic studies. She had a number of accounts on social networks spouting propaganda for Daesh. She was in contact with other women terrorists on Twitter. She also supported terrorist assault attempts against security men which took place in Sharora in 2014 according to her tweets. Saudi authorities detained her with a number of other women.
Um Ouis was indoctrinated with terrorist ideology by her uncle. She produced media materials to criticize the role of Saudi security authorities using leaflets and banners.
Sociologist Amal Abu Al-Wafa said: 'Um Ouis participated in terrorist activities as a result of her uncle's ideas which affected her. Most women who are involved in terrorism have relatives or family members who are wanted by security authorities. Their relatives are members of terrorist groups and they help daughters sisters or wives to join them.'
Speaking to Arab News she said: 'The role of the Saudi media contributed to limit the number of Saudi women who joined terrorist groups. However the social environment of women played a vital role to change her ideas in addition to the role of social networking websites that recruited several women from many countries to join terrorist groups.'