Will you love me, Brother?
"Signs to people who reflect" by scholesyfynn By Erika Biagini Women are central to Islamist movements, the success of their political projects as well as their ability to survive state-led repression. In Islamist movements, women are not only those who give birth and nurture the new generations of activists, but they are also the ones who convey to them and their immediate communities the values, ideology and culture that their movements espouse. Women are also among the activists involved in the setting up and running of the large networks of Islamist social and religious associations, and are usually the first in line at polling stations in times of elections to cast their vote for Islamist candidates. Crucially, they are those who sustain Islamists in times of repression, guaranteeing their survival. Women do so by looking after the prisoners and their families, collecting funds for the movement and advocating for the prisoners’ freedom, when they are not the ones who