The growth of Islamic extremism in the world, the threat of its penetration into the territory of the Russian Federation raises the task of building a scientifically grounded system of counterpropaganda. In this regard, the author for the first time in the world Islamology introduces the concept of a woman-Islamist, which was filled with real content in the activities of the «Islamic State». Already in the end of 2015 - beginning of 2016 women-Islamists acted not only as performers of terrorist acts, but also as their organizers, independent of men’s will. This testified to the violation of traditional gender relations. It turned out that modern Islamists consider not even Western hegemony as their main enemy, but the Muslim Ummah, which is mired in corruption, fitna and sinful. Thus, for fifty years of its existence - since the establishment of the Lebanese Shiite organization Hezbollah - female Islamism has gone from the motives of «secondary» motivation (revenge for the deceased father, husband, etc.,) to «primary» motivation, i.e. decision, taken as a result of my own thoughts. This was reflected, among other things, in the formation of the ideology of female Islamism, which rejects any dialogue with both the West and the rest of the world of Islam, which women-Islamists believe is unbelief and polytheism (shirk). Women-Islamists make their own decision to participate in the struggle, form their strategy based on women’s Islamist archetypes, organize their actions and subsequently count on active participation in radical movements or political entities, independent of men’s will. In other words, we are talking about a fundamentally new understanding of the role of women in a Muslim society and its status in the family.