The boy’s Muslim father is shocked! shocked! that this happened, and the Daily Mail takes for granted that this woman’s conversion to Islam had nothing whatsoever to do with her deciding to join the Islamic State. That all came later, when she was “brainwashed.” But if Franziska Mirella had never converted to Islam in the first place, would she have been susceptible to that “brainwashing”?
“Swiss Muslim-convert mother is stopped at Turkish border trying to take her four-year-old boy to Syria to join ISIS after she was brainwashed by jihadists online,” by Tom Wyke, MailOnline, January 15, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Swiss Muslim-convert has been arrested at the Turkish border on suspicion of intending to take her four-year-old son to Syria after being radicalised online by ISIS.
Franziska Mirella, 29, has been sent back to Switzerland where she could face trial for supporting a banned terror organisation.
Her Egyptian husband, Mahmoud, has been awarded custody of their four-year-old son Adam.
Franziska converted to Islam when she married her husband Mahmoud and moved to his homeland, Egypt.
While living in Egypt, she had started to follow increasingly radical Islamic services on the Internet, and according to her husband had come into contact with jihadists via social media.
Mahmoud, who married Franziska five years ago, said online jihadi supporters had convinced his wife that he was not a true Muslim.
They persuaded her together with her son to come to Syria in order to live under the caliphate.
Her family confirmed that she had started behaving strangely, even changing her name to Umm Adam, which means simply mother of Adam.
Franziska threw out all her son’s toys, deeming them ‘un-Islamic’ and banned him from watching television. Finally she sold everything she owned in order to fund their trip to Syria.
But the wannabe jihadi bride was stopped heading across the border from Greece into Turkey on her journey to Syria after her husband raised the alarm….

Paul says
Shame on her and him they are brain washed especially her husband. LOL he wants to join the caliphate in Syria, little does he know that this is the reason why Egyptian Muslims were forced to convert Christianity to Islam as a result of caliphate in Cairo in the past centuries. LoL
RonaldB says
Perhaps you should read the article again. There was no report of the husband wanting to go to Syria. It was entirely the wife, and the husband was the one that blew the whistle on her.
Sam says
Shame on them doesn’t she know that all Egyptians have Christian roots then most converted to Islam because of persecution from the caliphate in Cairo starting in 6th century till 15th century.
Angemon says
So the people who, according to islamic scholars and experts such as Obama, Cameron or Merkel, are not true muslims because they engage in warfare and atrocities, managed to convince someone who, because she was not engaging in warfare and atrocities, was a true muslim that her husband was not a true muslim and that in order to be a true muslim she needed to engage in warfare and atrocities?
Gee, I wonder how they managed to do that?…
Sam says
They can get killed there for not following 100% strict Islamic rules over there. That is isil ideology. 100% Islam or killed for smoking or shaving your beard.
Sam says
Angemon most native Egyptian Muslims are not proper Muslims except for Arab tribal people in Egypt. Native Egyptian Muslims are a product of forced conversion from Christianity to Islam particularly in the medieval period when persecution got more severe.
Mark A says
But regardless of their history of forced conversion, many of them now seem to act like fundamentalist Islamists.
gravenimage says
Very true. The Muslim Brotherhood was *very* popular there.
Baucent says
If that’s the case a Swiss convert to Islam is not a “proper muslim” either.
Jay Boo says
She is also a thief.
In Islam the father has sole ownership rights on this 4 year old property.
gravenimage says
Not if he’s deemed “Takfiri”, Jay Boo. This would only have been true if she had tried to *leave* Islam.
Jay Boo says
Good point G I
Although moderate Muslims might try to say she and ISIS have nothing to do with Islam, jihadi Franziska would have a much stronger case against moderate Muslims not being true Muslims for making a claim against her.
jewdog says
You see, this is how natural selection works. Eventually, Austria will contain more sensible people after their idiots join ISIS.
jewdog says
Oh, she’s Swiss, well, the cheese will have fewer holes.
Baucent says
Oscar Wilde said women had minds like Swiss cheese. Perhaps she proves the claim.
Angry Aussie says
Why stop them? Let them go and enjoy the benefits of the caliphate, even if it’s for the last week of their lives. We should be encouraging them to go rather than stay and commit atrocities on western shores.
Judi says
I agree Aussie. It makes me really angry when I read that yet another ISIS wannabe has been prevented from doing so. What a waste of resources to arrest them and then fly them back to their host country where no doubt they will be given psychiatric help and then turned loose on society.
Avantibev says
A failure of Christianity to be as demanding of its followers and failing to inculcate and catechize them. Both Nature and the Supernatural abhor a vacuum.
Well I’m off to my “fundamentalist” traditional Latin Mass.
Hope says
“Brainwashed?” More like brain-dead. They should have let her go. Let ISIS give her a good dose of reality. The young boy is obviously innocent. I am glad HE was not harmed.
Mark A says
In the meantime her Egyptian husband gets Swiss citizenship.
The husband should be stripped of any Swiss citizenship or privileges he has obtained as a result of marrying this deluded woman.
The Swiss woman should be stripped of her Swiss passport and charged with treason, supporting the enemy or whatever similar charges exist under Swiss law. Or perhaps she should be allowed to travel to the Islamic State and then stripped of her Swiss citizenship and passport.
SoCalMike says
The writer of the article is the brainwashed one.
Easier for him to stand on one leg with the other leg stretched over his head contorting himself into the shape of a human pretzel than to connect violence and Islam.
Ashley says
Interesting story. SHE converted, became radicalized online, and her husband took action.
Another example of how the freshly-minted converts are perhaps the most dangerous…
OT: Is “Adam” an Islamic name???
ainu888 says
If pronounced as as aaadaam, it’s a muslim name. However, maybe the dad was westernized and wanted a western name for his son. I mean, he married a Swiss woman. Both explanations are plausible based on the article.
Westman says
“Franziska …….. banned him from watching television.”
Just when I thought nothing good ever came from Islam, it stops a family from watching the Kardashians.
Shmooviyet says
And decided his toys were un-islamic.
She wanted to introduce him to a new, IS-approved ‘soccer ball’, among other playthings.
Hopefully his little mind has not been permanently scarred by this wretch’s abuse.
gravenimage says
Even Western stupidity like the inexplicable popularity of the vapid and shallow Kardashians is much preferable to the horror of the Islamic State.
salim says
Another reason that Islam should be treated as a dangerous drug or mental illness.
People who converts to Islam:
Turn against their society
Women turn against their feminine instincts and do everything possible to conceal their beauty.
Women voluntarily cover up completely, even in the hottest weather (and claim they feel perfectly fine despite all that smelly sweat).
They become unsocial, especially with non Muslims (for example on Christmas).
Turn to violence.
They preach hate and incite to murder.
Become difficult to live with at home and in the society.
become difficult to work with
Join other like minded Muslims to practice murder (jihad).
The above symptoms indicate a mental health disorder that calls for psychiatric help. We would ban any drug that causes any of the above symptoms yet we protect Islam and nurture it.
Shmooviyet says
Good point– some on your list recall symptoms to look for if clinical depression or worse is suspected- the withdrawal, lack of hygiene, quickness to temper.
Voytek Gagalka says
As they would usually say “that this woman’s conversion to Islam had nothing whatsoever to do with…” Islam? Nice. She must have converted then to some sort of non-existing Islam which occupy brains of such geniuses and experts as Cameron, Kerry, a certain mayor of one American city, and all the rest of them. I got it!
Shmooviyet says
As he’s been mentioned here in the last few days, your post reminds me of Pat Condell’s brilliant “Nothing to Do With Islam”.
gravenimage says
Swiss convert to Islam tries to take her 4-year-old son to join the Islamic State
The boy’s Muslim father is shocked! shocked! that this happened
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Likely the *only* thing that has shocked dear old dad is that his former Infidel wife would come to regard him as “insufficiently Islamic”–the *only* circumstances where a Muslim wife is permitted under Islam to defy her husband.
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…and the Daily Mail takes for granted that this woman’s conversion to Islam had nothing whatsoever to do with her deciding to join the Islamic State. That all came later, when she was “brainwashed.”…
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Yeah, what crap. It’s not as though Christians and Jews and Buddhists and Atheists are running off the join the Islamic State–just pious Muslims.
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Mahmoud, who married Franziska five years ago, said online jihadi supporters had convinced his wife that he was not a true Muslim.
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This probably sounds odd to those Infidels not paying much attention, but this is *very* common in Islam. There is even a dedicated doctrine for it–Takfir–where an individual, institution, or entire nation may be deemed not truly Muslim.
Such “Takfiris” can then be ignored–as here–or even targeted for violence or death. Takfir is exactly the basis on which Jihadists wage violent Jihad against other Muslims–that they are not truly Muslim, and are hence fair game.
When Jihadists target Muslim authorities in places like Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, it is on just this basis.
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Her family confirmed that she had started behaving strangely, even changing her name to Umm Adam, which means simply mother of Adam.
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There is *nothing* strange about this–in much of Dar-al-Islam, a woman has no real identity of her own, but is just known as mother of her eldest son.
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But the wannabe jihadi bride was stopped heading across the border from Greece into Turkey on her journey to Syria after her husband raised the alarm….
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“Wannabe jihadi bride”–it is *very* difficult for a Muslim woman to get a divorce without the consent of her husband. One of the few situations where this is easy is if her current husband is an Infidel–or, in this case, a “Takfiri”, who is considered a virtual Infidel.
In that case–whether the woman is a kidnapped Infidel woman or very differently a fervent Muslimah as here–she can be married off to a Jihadist without regard for her marriage, which is deemed invalid.