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Romancing a Terrorist: I Posed Online as a Young Woman Interested in ISIS
Reader's Digest ^ | no date given | ANNA ERELLE

Posted on 03/15/2017 9:26:15 AM PDT by Leaning Right

“Salaam alaikum, sister. I see you watched my video. It’s gone viral—crazy! Are you Muslim?”

It was ten o’clock on a Friday night in April 2014.

I was sitting on my sofa in my one-bedroom Parisian apartment when a terrorist based in Syria contacted me on Facebook. I’d been studying European jihadists in the Islamic State and was interested in understanding what it was that made someone give up everything and brave death for this cause.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; online; readersdigest
This is an eye-opening, and chilling, story.

Long story short: To research the subject, the author posed as a 20-year-old French woman who had converted to Islam.

The jihadist who contacted her (via her fake Facebook account) started out by promising her all sorts of wonderful things if only she'd travel to Syria.

But once she told him that she had arrived in Turkey, and was ready to cross over into Syria, his tone changed. He became abusive, and controlling.

The jihadist eventually found out it was a set-up. There is now a fatwa issued against the author.

1 posted on 03/15/2017 9:26:15 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right
Like many journalists, I had a fictional Facebook account I’d created to keep an eye on current events.

Facebook is not pleased.

2 posted on 03/15/2017 9:36:26 AM PDT by PGR88 (The)
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To: Leaning Right

Good article. Shows that it is necessary to be muzzlim in order to be a jihadi. Reason enough to kick them all out.

The article shows that izzlam is a violent death cult which must be outlawed. Anyone who converts to it must be expelled from the country or jailed.


3 posted on 03/15/2017 9:36:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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> The article shows that izzlam is a violent death cult which must be outlawed. <

For those who might disagree with you, here’s the wording of the fatwa against the author:

“My brothers from around the world, I issue a fatwa against this impure person who has scorned the Almighty. If you see her anywhere on earth, follow Islamic law and kill her. Make sure she suffers a long and painful death. Whoever mocks Islam will pay for it in blood. She’s more impure than a dog. Rape, stone, and finish her...”


4 posted on 03/15/2017 9:45:47 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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"Tell her to find Taggart! She'll know what to do."
5 posted on 03/15/2017 9:51:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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OK, baby. Can we talk about tomorrow? What is going to happen after we meet Mother?”

“Actually, nobody will be there to meet you.”

“But that wasn’t the plan, Bilel,” I said, my voice genuinely frayed with anxiety. “You were adamant—as was I—that a woman come to meet us. You told me we would be safe.”

“Listen to me,” he said, his tone hardening. “You’re going to shut up for a minute and let me speak. When you arrive at the airport in Istanbul, buy two one-way tickets for Urfa.”

“Urfa? Urfa was infiltrated by the Islamic State. Going there was suicide.

“All I ask is that you respect what you’ve promised me.”

“You can’t talk to me like that! I’m the one who gives orders around here, not you. From now on, you’re going to shut up. Don’t you know who I am? I command a hundred soldiers every day. I haven’t even told you a quarter of the truth!”

This terrorist married her without ever meeting her and never had her agreement. In this exchange, you can see how dangerous it would have been if she actually met him. He went from talking sweet to her, to threatening her.


6 posted on 03/15/2017 10:23:09 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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> He went from talking sweet to her, to threatening her. <

Yep. And it’s quite possible that some day Angela Merkel will be in the same situation. But Merkel won’t have to travel anywhere to experience it.


7 posted on 03/15/2017 10:29:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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And he was so stupid he didn’t even wait until she got there. At least get the ladies under your control before showing them what you really are.


8 posted on 03/15/2017 11:06:02 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Leaning Right

What boggles my mind, is how a white liberal feminist that hates white men, ends up married to one of these monsters. They are many that have actually done this (not the woman posing as a convert in this story).


9 posted on 03/15/2017 2:56:46 PM PDT by Trillian
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