An Australian woman has told how she took her two children to Syria to join ISIS, in a new propaganda magazine for Islamic State.
The first-person article, written by a woman named as Umm Sulaym al-Muhajirah, sees her recount how she lied to her parents to move to the war-torn country and live under Sharia law.
Detailing her reasons for leaving, the woman stated she ‘could no longer tolerate living in Australia’ as the ‘guidance of our “scholars” was insufferable’.
An Australian woman has told how took her two children to Syria to join ISIS, in an article for Islam State’s propaganda magazine Rumiyah (pictured)
The story appears in the 13th issue of Islamic State’s magazine Rumiyah and describes how the family left Australia for Syria, travelling through Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Turkey.
After her husband died from a bullet strike to the jaw while fighting for ISIS against Syrian militants in 2014, the woman reportedly decided to leave Australia.
‘I wanted for my children and myself to be a part of this noble campaign,’ she wrote.
‘I wanted them to grow up with jihad being our reality, not just pages read in the books.’
Living with her parents in Australia at the time, she told them she would be flying to visit family in Lebanon via Abu Dhabi.
But after her siblings discovered her intentions, her parents reportedly took their passports and forbade them from leaving, before her father relented and agreed to meet her in Abu Dhabi.
The woman, named only as Umm Sulaym al-Muhajirah, recounts how she lied to her parents to move her and her chidlren to the war-torn country and live under Sharia law (stock photo or a woman and children in eastern Syria, 2013)
After her husband died from a bullet strike to the jaw while fighting Syrian militants in 2014, the woman said she wanted to take her children to Syria so they could ‘grow up with jihad being our reality’ (stock photo of female fighters in the Free Syrian Army)
She also told how the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation or ASIO had been ‘blinded’ and could not prevent her from flying.
After arriving in Abu Dhabi the family made their way to Dubai, before travelling to Turkey via Istanbul.
The woman and her children were met by Islamic ‘brothers’ who took them to a safe house and were later intercepted by Turkish Border Forces.
She details how the group, including other women, were asked to remove their coverings and were ”stared at’.
The woman wrote: ‘We complied for a moment but quickly covered our faces again as they were staring at us with their perverted eyes’.
The woman and her children were met by Islamic ‘brothers’ after travelling through Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Turkey, before being taken to a safe house (stock photo of a woman and child walking in Aleppo, Syria)
The woman and her children eventually made it to Syria after being detained by the Turkish Border Forces, however it is unknown what happened to them since (stock photo of a boy and woman in Aleppo, Syria)
The woman and her children eventually made it to Syria, however it is unknown what happened to them since.
It follows another propaganda story from Islamic State released this week, of a young boy claiming to be the son of an American soldier.
The 10-year-old, who identified himself as Yousef, was pictured loading an assault rifle and claiming he was in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
Such stories are believed to be common, with analyst Raphael Gluck telling Nine News they are used to paint the unlikely people as ‘heroes’.
‘Some of these narratives are from the people you would least likely expect to attempt to reach ISIS…’ he said.
‘So perhaps these stories are supposed to paint pictures of heroes and heroines.’