A white woman from suburban Philadelphia who became a Muslim jihadist and has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist under the codename "Jihad Jane" has revealed that she was drawn to Islam because it gave her a sense of belonging after a troubled childhood in which she was raped over many years by her biological father. The revelation from Colleen LaRose, 49, comes in the first media interview she has granted since her arrest in October for plotting to kill Lars Vilks, the cartoonist who drew an image of the prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. Talking to the Reuters journalist John Shiffman from the Philadelphia federal detention center where she awaits sentencing on 17 May, LaRose relates how she became radicalised through online chats with an al-Qaida operative calling himself "Eagle Eye" and other Muslim extremists. Asked by Shiffman what she was thinking when she converted to Islam, taking the name Fatima, having spent a wholly non-religious previous life in Michigan, Texas and Pennsylvania, LaRose replied : "That I was finally going to be some place where I belonged. I've survived through a lot of things that rightfully should have killed me. And when I found out about Islam I thought this is what I have to do, this is why I've lived so long. She also said that she had become distressed by watching live coverage of Israeli Defence Force actions in Gaza. I started thinking more about Jihad.
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How an American ex-jihadi struggled to rebuild his life in the country he’d once vowed to destroy.
The Lars Vilks Muhammad cartoon controversy was ignited in when Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks published his cartoon of the head of the Prophet Muhammad on the body of a dog. Vilks's head. He was subsequently placed under permanent police protection.
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To improve your visit to our site, take a minute and upgrade your browser. But in America, Morton was a novelty. Americans love a redemption story, after all, and it was hard to imagine one more dramatic or with a more satisfying denouement. But beneath the Hollywood narrative were questions that cut straight to the heart of our anti-terrorism efforts. No one really understands why some people become radicalized —or how to stop them from acting on it. Law enforcement, in its efforts to prevent violence before it occurs, is also largely shooting in the dark. Given both the uncertainties and the urgency of fending off the terror threat, the impetus to turn to someone like Morton was understandable. But though it was only a slender subtext in the heroic stories he and others were telling, Morton had also been—like pretty much all the other Americans who dedicate themselves to jihad—a deeply troubled young man: in his case, an addict with bipolar disorder who had, before becoming a disciple of Osama bin Laden from afar, landed in jail multiple times on drug charges. Was this the sort of person we should be relying on for intelligence—or setting up as a role model for former extremists?
By Rukmini Callimachi. The men and women he inspired through his online posts and tutorials were accused of plots that included flying a remote-controlled plane strapped with explosives into the Pentagon and trying to kill a Swedish cartoonist who satirized the Prophet Muhammad. One of his collaborators was killed in a drone strike in Yemen , where he had joined Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Several are now fighting for the Islamic State. Morton, 37, is now at the forefront of an experiment to counter the pull of groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. After a stint as an F. Although countries like Britain have for years been putting former extremists to work in think tanks to provide authentic voices against radical ideology, Mr. Morton is the first former jihadist to step into this public a role in the United States. Vidino met with Mr.
