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Iraq
German jihadi schoolgirl facing execution visited by mom and sis in Iraq
2017-12-19
[DailyMail]
  • Linda Wenzel, from the town of Pulsnitz in Saxony, joined ISIS when she was 15

  • Said to have worked for a female-only brigade that whipped women over clothes
    Not exactly the house-bound innocent she claims, then.
  • She was captured in Mosul as Iraqi troops liberated the city earlier this years

  • Now her mother and sister Miriam* have flown to Baghdad, where she faces execution, to see her

  • Her jihadist husband was a Chechen fighter from Austria named Abu Usama al-Shishani
* In Germany that may read as a Jewish name, not a German one...
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  That I didn’t know, Elmerert Hupens2660. We only ever skied and ate fondue in Switzerland. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-19 12:59  

#5  Rachel would be more likely to be perceived as a Jewish name in Germany. However the spelling variation Rahel is not an uncommon name in Switzerland.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2017-12-19 12:38  

#4  â€˜Miriam' is not an exotic name in German speaking countries.

No? When we lived there in the 1990s, we were assumed to be Jewish because the trailing daughters are named Sarah and Rachel. The entire village was talking about it, I was told later, once they’d got to know me and become proud of how well they’d taught me to speak German. They were right to be proud, too.

The more sophisticated of Mr. Wife’s colleagues made the same assumption.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-19 11:16  

#3   In Germany that may read as a Jewish name, not a German one...

'Miriam' is not an exotic name in German speaking countries.

I would infer no political statement or a statement re religious or ethnic affiliation from that name alone.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2017-12-19 03:54  

#2  her mother and sister Miriam have flown to Baghdad, where she faces execution, to see her

They have my sympathy.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-12-19 03:07  

#1  Sure, now family is concerned.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-12-19 00:23  

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