American Woman Pleads Guilty to Aiding Islamic State

JUN 8 2022·Updated SEP 22 2022

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The Facts

Allison Fluke-Ekren, a Kansas-born woman who led an all-female Islamic State battalion, pleaded guilty on Tues. in federal district court to conspiring to provide material support for terrorism.
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Fluke-Ekren, who was captured in Syria and transferred to US custody in January, is scheduled for sentencing on Oct. 25. She faces up to 20 years in prison.
wapo
The 42-year-old admitted she led Khatiba Nusaybah, a female battalion tasked with defending Raqqa, Syria in 2017. She organized child and medical care, and education, but also trained women and young girls to use weapons and suicide devices, according to documents related to her plea.
Daily Mail
After moving to Egypt with her second husband in 2008, Fluke-Ekren aided terrorist organizations in Iraq, Libya and Syria, eventually becoming a rare female leader for the Islamic State.
Daily Mail

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The Spin

Narrative A

Muslim converts turning to jihadism is distressingly common. Biden's willful ignorance and politicization of counterterror activity to focus on a fictional white supremacist threat instead is costing American lives.

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Narrative B

Very few Muslim Americans and converts become radicalized. Rather than focusing on the tiny group that do, the government has vilified all of Islam with its 20-year securitization campaign.