You lost me. I still have no idea why you think this isn’t an example of rational behavior. Goal: Get more men to become jihadists. What do young men want? Sex. Encourage young women to provide them with sex. There’s no cost to the authorities—there’s a “social cost”, but that’s the social cost as we compute it, not as a hardline mullah computes it. He doesn’t pay anything.
You lost me. I still have no idea why you think this isn’t an example of rational behavior. Goal: Get more men to become jihadists. What do young men want? Sex. Encourage young women to provide them with sex. There’s no cost to the authorities—there’s a “social cost”, but that’s the social cost as we compute it, not as a hardline mullah computes it. He doesn’t pay anything.