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发帖数: 29576 | 1 巴马下台以后，ISIS高潮看来快过去了。
From the Islamic State to Suburban Texas
--In 2013, Tania Georgelas traveled to Syria with her husband and children
to join ISIS. Today, she attends a Unitarian church outside of Dallas.
The story of Tania Georgelas and her husband John unfolded across four
continents, but it is one of the most American stories I have ever heard.
Stop me if this one is familiar: John, a Texan from a wealthy Christian
family, converted to Islam as a teenager and 13 years later ascended to the
high echelons of the Islamic State. In London, along the way, he married
Tania, a native-born Muslim with ambitions of becoming a suicide bomber.
They had four kids, and together they fantasized about becoming a family of
itinerant holy warriors, a sort of Islamic version of the Von Trapps,
substituting slaughter of infidels for Alpine show tunes. In 2013, they went
to Syria, hoping to make it into isis territory. Only John succeeded. He
will probably die there.
If this sounds to you more like an anti-American story than an American one,
the fate of Tania and her kids might change your mind. After weeks in Syria
, she and her kids ditched John and returned to Plano, Texas—the home of
John’s parents—in late 2013. She and the kids left Syria by slipping
through a barbed-wire fence into Turkey. On arrival in Istanbul, she was
exhausted. (If you’ve ever dragged kids through an airport terminal,
imagine doing the same punishing journey, but under sniper fire.) John’s
parents rescued them and brought them back to Plano.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/from-isis-to-suburban-
texas/544910/ |
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