Blonde Muslim From Texas Became An ISIS Twitter Star
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Last week, a single tweet took Jennifer Williams -- an unassuming "blonde tattooed Texas girl" -- from relative obscurity to Twitter stardom.
The problem is that a “healthy number” of her enthusiastic new followers may be Islamic extremists.
“One guy told me how beautiful I would look in hijab (in other words, how beautiful I would look once I covered myself up and stopped looking like an infidel),” she wrote on the blog Lawfare about her growing Twitter fandom. “Another just straight up asked me to marry him.”
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Sorry I read the Quran to learn abt terrorist beliefs but ended up converting to Islam b/c of what it said. #MuslimApologies #sorrynotsorry
— Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth) September 24, 2014
Then, her Twitter notifications exploded.
Her message has been retweeted more than 12,000 times as of Friday evening. Williams started with 40 followers last Monday. She now has more than 5,000 and counting.
But they were not the kind of followers she wanted.
“I soon began to notice a disturbing trend: of the thousands of people who were retweeting and following me, many of them had the black flag of ISIS as their Twitter profile photos,” she wrote. “Others had pictures of themselves holding swords, standing in front of the black ISIS flag. Uh-oh.”
