{"id":100012,"date":"2014-07-29T21:48:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=100012"},"modified":"2014-07-29T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:48:52","slug":"islamic-state-offering-honeymoon-bus-tours-across-syria-and-iraq-after-opening-marriage-bureau-for-women-looking-to-marry-the-jihadist-of-their-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=100012","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State offering HONEYMOON bus tours across Syria and Iraq after opening \u2018marriage bureau\u2019 for women looking to marry the jihadist of their dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Islamic-States-buses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-100009\" alt=\"Islamic State's buses\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Islamic-States-buses.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Islamic-States-buses.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Islamic-States-buses-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Islamic-States-buses-411x300.jpg 411w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Extremist Islamists may well have wondered how they could possibly celebrate the happiest day of their lives &#8211; their wedding &#8211; while at the same time re-affirming their commitment to violent jihad.<\/p>\n<p>Or they may not have. In any case, the gap in the market has now been filled by the Islamic State, which is offering honeymoon bus tours across its self-declared caliphate spanning Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The move into tourism comes after the group, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, opened a marriage bureau for women who want to meet the jihadi of their dreams.<\/p>\n<p>The matchmaking service is operating from Al-Bab, in Syria&#8217;s Aleppo province, for &#8216;single women and widows who would like to marry IS fighters,&#8217; said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Newlywed couples can then join other civilians on Islamic State&#8217;s bus tours around the various parts of the newly declared Muslim theocracy.<\/p>\n<p>Running twice a week from Raqa in Syria to Anbar, Iraq, IS buses fly the group&#8217;s distinctive black flag and play jihadist songs throughout the journey, reports AFP.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether tourists are invited to sing along.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic State now controls massive swathes of northern and eastern Syria, the Iraq-Syria border, and parts of northern and western Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Extremist Islamists may well have wondered how they could possibly celebrate the happiest day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":100009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[12932,407,387],"class_list":["post-100012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","tag-extremist-islamists","tag-iraq","tag-syria","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}