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The Bride of ISIS Revealed
The Daily Beast ^ | September 3, 2014 | Jamie Dettmer

Posted on 09/03/2014 6:55:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The shocked parents of a young woman from Scotland say she’s been recruiting Western ‘sisters’ to join ISIS. Will the next waves of suicide bombers include women?

She was raised in a well-heeled Glasgow suburb, attended an exclusive Scottish girls’ school that could have come from the pages of Muriel Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and is described by bewildered family and friends as a once “sweet, intelligent and peaceful” girl. But yesterday the parents of 20-year-old Aqsa Mahmood revealed she is one of the female jihadists behind the online campaign reported on by The Daily Beast to recruit Western girls.

Western terrorist experts think the operation is a drive endorsed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State, widely known as ISIS or ISIL, to lure Western women to the marriage beds of the caliphate’s holy warriors, and it relies on those already enlisted to promote jihad.

Potential recruits are told their main role in the Islamic revolution will be through matrimony and childbearing, not martyrdom. And Mahmood, using the Twitter handle Umm Layth, has been highly active on Twitter and on her blog trying to persuade would-be “sisters” in Europe and the United States to travel to the Middle East to help ISIS establish its extremist vision of a militant Islamic utopia.

Mahmood ran off last November, according to her parents, who reported her as missing to police, and she is understood to have married a jihadist fighter soon after arriving in the Syrian city of Aleppo...

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: britain; isil; isis; islam
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1 posted on 09/03/2014 6:55:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Curious as to what her actual birth name is, and what ethnicity she and her parents are?


2 posted on 09/03/2014 6:56:43 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Aqsa Mahmood

Good Scottish girl.

3 posted on 09/03/2014 6:57:02 PM PDT by marron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MacMood?


4 posted on 09/03/2014 6:57:37 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“In a statement read by their lawyer, her clearly distraught Pakistani-born parents warned yesterday: “If our daughter who had every chance and freedom in life could become a bedroom radical, then it is possible for it to happen to any family.” Her father built a successful business and the family lives in $800,000 sandstone house in a posh Glasgow suburb. Term fees at her girls’ school, Craigholme, are $6,000.”


5 posted on 09/03/2014 7:00:26 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I doubt they are shocked as I’m sure every Friday at mosque their imam preaches no different than what IS promotes. And I’m sure the parents talked of the vilent jihadis with revence in their home and blamed the west for islamic terrorist acts..


6 posted on 09/03/2014 7:05:07 PM PDT by RginTN
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well-heeled Glasgow suburb
exclusive Scottish girls’ school
sweet
intelligent
peaceful
Aqsa Mahmood
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Which of these is not like the others?


7 posted on 09/03/2014 7:05:51 PM PDT by clintonh8r (It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
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To: Black Agnes

Yikes.


8 posted on 09/03/2014 7:07:11 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Curious as to what her actual birth name is, and what ethnicity she and her parents are?

From the article.....In a statement read by their lawyer, her clearly distraught Pakistani-born parents warned yesterday: “If our daughter who had every chance and freedom in life could become a bedroom radical, then it is possible for it to happen to any family.” p>

9 posted on 09/03/2014 7:07:13 PM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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"BRIDE of ISIS?"

Her secret was she's a lesbo?

10 posted on 09/03/2014 7:10:11 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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That’s a new term; “Bedroom Radical”. I don’t think it involves multiple partners though.


11 posted on 09/03/2014 7:13:59 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: P.O.E.

Do you suppose she is troubled by MacMood swings?


12 posted on 09/03/2014 7:24:01 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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MacMood?

Well played...

13 posted on 09/03/2014 7:32:37 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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“If our daughter who had every chance and freedom in life could become a bedroom radical, then it is possible for it to happen to any family devout Muslim .”
14 posted on 09/03/2014 7:50:03 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

From the article “her clearly distraught Pakistani-born parents ...”

When you import the third world....


15 posted on 09/03/2014 7:59:56 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: PLMerite

Reminds me of our older daughter who was a Christian before going to college at Boulder,CO where she became a radicalized liberal who hated far right winged Christians...when I reminded her that I am one of those far right winged Christians, the response was the breaking point in our relationship and we have not spoken since........welcome to communism taking control over our children in our school system.................


16 posted on 09/03/2014 8:24:11 PM PDT by Stayfree (IThe White House Commie is no longer a bad joke, he is now public enemy #1)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reminds me of the upper middle class German chicks who joined the Bader-Meinhoff gang, or American chicks who joined the Weather Underground and fringe groups like the Symbianese Liberation Army.


17 posted on 09/03/2014 9:27:07 PM PDT by SuziQ
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” Aqsa Mahmood”.

I think they spelled the name wrong. It must be Alice MacMood.


18 posted on 09/03/2014 10:31:20 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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Well, send her over there.

Revoke her citizenship and never, never allow her to come back. I’m sure she’ll love living in a black bag for the rest of her life.


19 posted on 09/03/2014 11:40:01 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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So, Islam actually encourages your women to take up the occupation of public mattress?
Why would anyone do this?


20 posted on 09/04/2014 4:54:53 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Without a gun, I cannot protect myself, my family or my country.)
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