She has a future with NBC.
Via MSN
On April 28, a high-ranking female ISIS officer with more than 8,000 followers on Twitter and primarily tasked with recruiting women to join the terror group was identified by Channel 4 News as a journalism student in her early 20s living in Seattle.
The now suspended Twitter handle “@_UmmWaqqas” reportedly belongs to Rawdah Abdisalaam, although it was not confirmed that she is the sole account user, Channel 4 News reports.
The avatar shows a woman covered from head to toe in traditional Islamic garb sitting next to a tree.
Since ISIS announced its caliphate last summer, Westerners becoming radicalized online and then traveling to the Middle East to join jihadist groups has become a growing problem.
“What it really demonstrates is the tremendous power of social media,” Jonathan Adelman, a professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, told the Denver Post after ISIS lured three teenage girls from Colorado.
Another possible factor that may encourage young women to join ISIS is the limelight that comes with leaving the Western world to pursue a radical life.
According to the Channel 4 report, Rawdah’s tweets range from inspirational Islamic quotes to coordination with potential new members to pictures of pizza and her favorite football team, the Denver Broncos.
HT: JettieG