Not "Brainwashed": American Women Who Converted To Islam Speak Out

NBC News ^ | April 26, 2013 | JoNel Aleccia

[Biggirl]

When an American convert to Islam was revealed as the wife of the dead Boston bombing suspect, Lauren Schreiber wasn’t surprised at what came next. Comments from former acquaintances and complete strangers immediately suggested that 24-year-old Katherine Russell, a New England doctor’s daughter, must have been coerced and controlled by her husband, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week in a firefight with police.

[Biggirl]

American women and the Muslim religion.

[Boogieman]

Not brainwashed, just stupid.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Also not in denial. /s

[Westbrook]

Some women are just attracted to beaters. They just are. Ando moslems are notorious beaters.

[castowell]

NBC doing their part to set the narrative.

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> “The moment you put on a hijab, people assume that you’ve forfeited your free will,” says Schreiber

Well, hon, you did. You submitted.

[Sir Napsalot]

Also, more black women converted to islam and wearing hijab so far. Because their men converted first.

[Jonty30]

I think, in part, mistaught Christianity, which teaches that men should be wussies to emulate Christ, is in part responsible for this.

Proper Christianity is very much a deliberate kindness, but hardly weak.

[CaptainK]

And yet the 3 women pictured in the article have the vacant smile of brainwashed cult members.

[Kirkwood]

You first need a brain to be brainwashed.

[Perseverando]

[txrefugee]

Mental illness or total lack of self respect.....

[Thommas]

Whoa! This is my latest, best graphic, pictorial on Islam.

[tomkat]

Stockholm Syndrome

[SMARTY]

It says more about Muslim intolerance than anything else.

I wonder how many of the women who converted to Islam are married to Muslims.

Or are they single women who converted just because they WANTED to?

I have an acquaintance who is a Jewish guy and married a Christian. He did NOT demand or expect that she would convert. They have been happily married for many years.

I know many couples with partners of varied Christian denominations ... no problem.

I don’t know of any Muslims who marry or are married to Non Muslims.

I think that is the functional definition of ‘intolerance’.

[PeteB570]

Sounds like the ladies in the story need to read the Koran.

[KC_Lion]

The Project: Part 2

These Women are willing Tools!!!!

[PoloSec]

A sure sign of brainwashing is denial.

I mean look at liberal democrats, the most prominent group of brainwashed people in America.

[taxcontrol]

There always has been and likely will be a percentage of the population that WANTS to feel like a victim. Of these, there is a smaller population that WANTS to be dominated, push around, perhaps even slapped around and humiliated.

What that percentage is, I don’t know. My observation is that does seem to be higher in women than men.

[Buckeye McFrog]

For women who feel sending marriage proposals to three-time lifers in maximum security prisons is not quite nuts enough for them.