Would you go on a blind date with ISIS?

July 05, 2014 02:42

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it nabbed a would-be jihadist teenage girl trying to join her ISIS boyfriend in Syria.

Another case of the crazy things we do for love? Maybe not.

Women in terror groups arent the helpless, hopeless romantics the media makes them out to be.

Often, jihad-watchers tell The Daily Beast, its the radical women dragging their reluctant male partners into the fight.

The FBI arrested a 19 year-old woman back in April for attempting to attempting to join the notorious group Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham.

According to a criminal complaint (PDF), the FBI arrested Shannon Maureen Conley at Denver International Airport as she was allegedly en route to meet a 32 year-old Tunisian man fighting for ISIS. The two had met online.

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