Promises of Heaven
Monday, April 12, 2021
The Jamaah Ansharut Daulah group is using the prospect of marriage to lure in new female members. One woman tells how she nearly went to Syria after being promised marriage and being indoctrinated with the ideology of ISIS.
A 26-YEAR-OLD woman, let us just call her Wahidah, asked that her real identity be concealed in order to protect her family.
Four years ago, four plain-clothes Singapore police officers entered the home of her employer in that country. They headed straight to her room and searched it, where they found some burqas and face veils. They also found the evidence they were after: her chat history with a particular man on her cellular phone.
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