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I was married to an Islamic State leader

I love these BS articles. So many contradictions.

1. Which 17 year old can afford a place in London?

2. She wanted to be westernised her whole life, ran away from home to do so, then got radicalised by her cousin?

3. She read all the Saudi fatwas apart from the anti ISIS ones i assume?

4. Her controlling husband who she was in an abusive relationship with apparently increased in radicalisation, meanwhile letting her stop wearing the niqab?

5. She was willing to defy her abusive husband in ISIS controlled territory, but wasn't willing to make a scene at the Turkish border?

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Seems to me someone got tired to playing Jihad Rangers and now just wants to settle down back in Texas without getting the gitmo treatment.

Sounds a lot of BS to me... If it's true.. good for her she got out of the ISIS hell.... However, it sounds like a get rich quick scheme by her to me.
 
Desis have a tendency of mixing up being Islamic and being Arab. They equate being and behaving like Arabs as a benchmark standard of piety or how Islamic they are. This tendency is highest among Pakistanis, medium among Indian Muslims and lowest among Bengalis. However, anybody who suddenly becomes religious readily knowingly/unknowingly adopts it. They are more arabs than arabs themselves.

While I agree with most of your statements, this one I have a bit of disagreement with.

This tendency is highest among Pakistanis, medium among Indian Muslims and lowest among Bengalis.

You are talking from a generalized viewpoint, the Pakistanis I hang out with don't fit the description, in fact most higher middle class Pakistanis don't at all. These folks are Western-educated and belong to that culture through and through.

Religiosity in the subcontinent depends on level of education, wealth, social status and many other things...

One certainly cannot generalize like this along national lines, it's way more diverse than that.

Maybe we can say that proximity to the Middle East and societal cultural values makes Pakistanis adopt Arab values more readily than other regions in the subcontinent.

But that does not explain the case of Malaysian or Indonesian Muslims in certain areas.

By the way - I don't know if you are Muslim (my previous impression was that you were not), so I would not comment on religious topics and values if I was not an adherent myself. If I am wrong then my apologies.
 
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While I agree with most of your statements, this one I have a bit of disagreement with.



You are talking from a generalized viewpoint, the Pakistanis I hang out with don't fit the description, in fact most higher middle class Pakistanis don't at all. These folks are Western-educated and belong to that culture through and through.

Religiosity in the subcontinent depends on level of education, wealth, social status and many other things...

One certainly cannot generalize like this along national lines, it's way more diverse than that.

Maybe we can say that proximity to the Middle East and societal cultural values makes Pakistanis adopt Arab values more readily than other regions in the subcontinent.

But that does not explain the case of Malaysian or Indonesian Muslims in certain areas.

By the way - I don't know if you are Muslim (my previous impression was that you were not), so I would not comment on religious topics and values if I was not an adherent myself. If I am wrong then my apologies.

I am Muslim.
 

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