(BBC News) Sebastian Usher- Radical Islamists have launched a new magazine on the Internet especially for women, called Al-Khansa, after a famous Arab woman poet in the early days of Islam who wrote eulogies to male relatives who had died in battle. One of its encouragements to jihad reads: "The blood of our husbands and the body parts of our children are our sacrificial offering." It treats the issue of Saudi women's rights with scorn.
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