Yup! That’s my bet, too.
She come from a very so/so Christian background, probably pretty secular, and as part of her job, she had to learn about Islam.
She met lots of Muslims, and she decided she liked it.
Understanding it more, she told herself it made her more effective, and it might have —it probably did.
And then over the course of those 10 years, she GOT SEDUCED, she fell in love with Islam.
And then she *converted* to Islam, and then they HAD her.
And now she’s killing our people.
...... “Prosecutors said that she searched Facebook accounts for Americans and created “target packages” for Iran against American counterintelligence officials”
Not real sure anyone legitimately involved with COIN would violate they’re OPSEC or PERSEC for social media or commercial marketing data miners.
.....just my opinion of course.
Many Christian denominations now are wishy washy. They value PC culture above all else and so they fear appearing "judgy". They steadfastly avoid claiming that Christianity is the path to heavenly rewards, that would imply that they think other faiths are somehow lesser. Can't have that. And we can't ask the flock to work hard at faith either, they want it to be accessible, they suppose.
Most people look at all that and think "what's the point? If they are the same as everything else and offer no particular truth that I can't get elsewhere, why bother with them?" They don't convert, they just sort of drift away from their faith. But some people reject that outright. They want a faih that says "we have the truth and everyone else is going to hell. Join us and you will live eternally in heaven, reject us and suffer forever." Sounds harsh but people want to be connected to eternal truths and being told that there is ONE path and all others are false does that.
For those people, Islam is waiting. They are never wishy washy about telling all that their belief system is right and the ONLY way to eternal bliss. I imagine she was one of those people.