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Muslima who left Germany to join the Islamic State wants to return, says she made a “big, big mistake”

Feb 3, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

German authorities would be extremely foolish to allow Leonora to correct this “mistake.” She joined a group that is avowedly at war with Germany and all of the West. She joined a group that has repeatedly called upon Muslims to murder non-Muslim civilians in Western countries. She claims her husband was just a tech man for ISIS: he “makes technical stuff, computer stuff, repairs computer, mobiles.” But an investigation found that he was “an influential figure among foreign terrorists in Syria.” Leonora’s claims about her husband are reminiscent of post-World War II Germans claiming that they had nothing to do with the Nazis and always hated them; so many Germans made this claim that one would have thought that the Nazis faced massive internal resistance, but they didn’t. ISIS still exists, and still wants non-Muslims in Germany and elsewhere dead. German authorities will allow Leonora to return at their own risk.

“‘Big mistake’: German woman who joined ISIS, asks to go home,” AFP, February 2, 2019:

Baghouz, Syria: Four years after leaving Germany to live under the ISIS group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the terrorists’ last bastion in eastern Syria and says it’s time to go home.

“I was a little bit naive,” she says in English, wearing a long billowing black robe, and a beige headscarf with white spots….

The young German woman says she first came to Syria aged 15, just two months after converting to Islam.

“After three days, I married my German husband,” she tells AFP, at a screening centre for the displaced run by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

Leonora says she became the third wife of German terrorist Martin Lemke, after he travelled to Syria with his first two wives.

ISIS had the year before swept across large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq, declaring a “caliphate” in areas it controlled.

Leonora first lived in the terrorist group’s de-facto Syrian capital of Raqa, but says she was just a housewife.

“I was just at home, in (the) house cooking, cleaning — stuff like this,” says the pale faced German, clutching the youngest of her two children, an infant aged just two weeks….

At first life in Raqa was easy, Leonora says, but that changed when the SDF started advancing against the terrorists, with support from US-led coalition air strikes.

The Kurdish-led SDF overran Raqa in 2017, after years of what residents described as ISIS’s brutal rule, which included public beheading and crucifixions.

“Then they lose Raqa, and we started to change our house every week because they lost every week a city,” she says.

When they came under attack by the Kurdish-led SDF, Leonora says the ISIS fighters left their families to fend for themselves.

“They left the women alone, no food, they don’t care about you,” she says. The enemy was advancing “and you were sitting alone in an empty city with your kids”.

They ended up in a tiny patch on the eastern banks of the Euphrates in Deir Ezzor province.

The SDF have cornered ISIS into a patch of less than four square kilometres in recent days.

‘Big, Big Mistake’

Eventually, she says, she picked up her children, and fled with her husband, and his second wife into SDF-held territory.

US-backed forces detained Lemke on Thursday.

Leonora claims Lemke worked mostly as a technician for ISIS.

“He makes technical stuff, computer stuff, repairs computer, mobiles,” she says.

But investigations published in German newspapers portray Lemke, who is now believed to be 28, as an influential figure among foreign terrorists in Syria….

After four years under a now near-extinct ISIS caliphate, Leonora says she wants to go home.

“I want to go back to Germany to my family, because I want my old life back,” she says.

“Now I know that it was a big, big mistake.”

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  1. Mac-101 says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 9:22 am

    Didn’t we hang numerous female NAZIs once the concentration camps were liberated? I remember an ole WWII photo showing about a dozen women guards hanging from a long gallows at one time.

    • PRCS says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 3:04 pm

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutthof_trials

      • Mac-101 says

        Feb 3, 2019 at 4:05 pm

        Thanks, that was the picture I had remembered. Good enough for ISIS I’d say!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 3:36 pm

      There were only a few women hanged after the Nuremberg Trials–21 in all. Only the worst of the worst.

  2. Jon Sobieski says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 9:34 am

    Here is a video conversation (French w/English subtitles) of a French Jihadi bride. She wants to come back to France. I say screw them. Let them die in the desert. They prayed everyday that we die. Everyday.

    • Jon Sobieski says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 2:36 pm

      https://www.france24.com/en/20190129-exclusive-france-24-meets-french-jihadi-bride-syria

    • Rufolino says

      Feb 4, 2019 at 4:03 am

      This woman will be allowed back into Germany, little doubt.

      Most ordinary Germans do not recognise the threat which Islam poses because they do not want to, it would be “islamophobic”. And the authorities, for whatever reasons, encourage this.

      German people have a deep-seated need to be virtuous, a result of history. To allow this woman back into Germany signals virtuous generosity and forgiveness.

      A mistake.

      • Rufolino says

        Feb 4, 2019 at 4:08 am

        Merkel, with her personal Marxist agenda expressed in her disastrous immigration policy, has cynically taken advantage of Germany’s deep need to be seen as virtuous.

  3. Rente says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 9:52 am

    “Now I know that it was a big, big mistake.” Do ya think?

  4. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 9:55 am

    German authorities will allow Leonora to return at their own risk.
    The authorities surrounded by walls and armed guards will not be at risk. The common citizens will be though.

  5. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 9:57 am

    “He makes technical stuff, computer stuff, repairs computer, mobiles,” Things that trigger bombs.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 3:39 pm

      *Spot on*, Indiana Tom.

    • PRCS says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 5:32 pm

      Correct! And it would be “a little bit naive” to think she doesn’t know that.

  6. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 9:59 am

    The SDF have cornered ISIS into a patch of less than four square kilometres in recent days.

    Smother it in napalm.

  7. Ren says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 11:28 am

    If she wants to get back, she will have to leave islam and to unveil, period.

    • PRCS says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 5:42 pm

      And give her a job: telling the German public the truth about Islam and why its practice has no place in Germany.

  8. Tom says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 12:23 pm

    Not buying the “just a tech” excuse. She and her husband moved houses every week? One has to wonder who was forced to vacate those homes in order for her and her entire extended family to move in.

    I bet the families who lived there didn’t move out voluntarily to accommodate this woman, who doesn’t seem contrite in any way, she is only concerned with herself. I have no empathy for her.

    She made a bad choice in her life, but many people do, and end up living with the consequences of that choice, and so must she. Germans would be fools to let her back into Germany.

  9. gary fouse says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 12:34 pm

    It’s not just Germany grappling withb this problem.
    https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2019/02/dutch-government-grapples-with-question.html

  10. herb says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    Ban Islam!

    • Wellington says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 4:36 pm

      herb: You don’t have to ban Islam, only expose it for the evil which it is and quit treating it as something good. Were this to occur in one Western nation after another, this would be enough to contain it, marginalize it, ridicule it and diminish it.

      But even if you’re correct that Islam should be banned in Western nations, this cannot happen until it is first looked upon as iniquitous. After all, banning something will not occur if it is erroneously thought of as good. First things first.

      • Rufolino says

        Feb 4, 2019 at 4:18 am

        How do you expose as evil a ‘religion’ which Governments, almost ALL the Media, and His Holiness the Pope, keep insisting, is benign ?

        So far, Governments, the Media and the Pope are winning.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 4, 2019 at 10:30 pm

        Agreed, Wellington. Slowly, more people are waking up. We have to continue to expose Islam for what it is.

    • PRCS says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 5:46 pm

      @herb,

      It’s an ideology. A belief, ingrained in Muslims’ minds. It’s texts are everywhere–libraries, online, etc.
      It’s not going to be banned–anywhere!
      As noted, what that “complete way of life” involves has to be publicly exposed.

  11. thebigW says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    “She joined a group that is avowedly at war with Germany and all of the West. ”

    All Muslims are in a group at war with all of us. Does it make it any different if it’s not as “avowedly”? LOLOLOL?

  12. Kuffar 'n Proud says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 2:00 pm

    Would she still be saying “I made a big, big mistake,” if ISIS hadn’t had their a***s kicked out of Iraq and most of Syria?

  13. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    First, that Muslim woman ,Leonora said about her leaving Germany to join ISIS in Eastern Syria that she was “a little bit naive” Woe! that’s an understatement if there ever was one. She would have had been more open and honest of she came right out and sai that she was a “gullible and deluded fool to believe any of the ISIS propaganda . The fact is that Spencer is is right when he explained the “German authorities would be extremely foolish… to allow her to return to Germany.” After all ,there is no actual proof that she now pose no threat the the citizen of Germany.

    Second, not to sympathize ,in any way, with that traitor , Leonora nevertheless regarding other young females it might be fitting to explain that now since the Islamic “state” has lost so much land the ISIS jihadists have rather sly way of recruiting and exploiting young women for the jihad for Islam

    Before the Islamic “state’’ had lost so much of the land ,in Iraq and Syria , that it had gained by violent murderous brute force. A number of young naïve and impressionable girls of and in the West had been duped, beguiled and deceived by the enticement of the ISIS propaganda machine on internet. For it gave the false offer to those young gullible girls who were willing and able to leave the West and travel to the lands controlled by ISIS “a grand place to live that gives meaning to life.” Those girls who are taken by the lying words of ISIS and travel to ISIS controlled lands Do soon have a very harsh reality check when they discover, to their horror, that all the promises made by ISIS were bogus. In other words all the promise of ISIS are nothing but total falsehood and lies. The deceitful and lying wolfs of ISIS do awful and terrible harms to those girls they deceive, beguile and betray.

    Therefore, the old poem of wisdom should be repeated.
    “Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon you way. Never trust a stranger –friend; No one knows how it will end. As your pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise. Handsome they may be, and kind, gay, or charming never mind ! Now , as then , ‘tis simple truth- the sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth !”

  14. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 2:50 pm

    Leonora traitor to Germany and all the West yet still she may count herself as being a person of good fortune . For unlike and in contrast the cruel and unforgiving Islamic “culture” ,Western civilization is much more humane ,kind and forgiving.

    The other reason that Leonora in very fortunate is that she got away and she wasn’t “recruited”,as in forced, by the jihadists of ISIS to strap on a suicide homicide vest and then turn herself in the human bomb for the cause of Islam. Maybe that’s only because she escape the land still controlled by the Islamic “state” before ISIS /jihadist “recruited” her to do it.

    For the phenomena of females who are jihad suicide /homicide bombers is tragic, sad, yet t interesting in a negative sort of way. The reasons for the delusional and murderous behavior by brainwashed, girls and women is the mind programming inflected on them by the Muslims clerics, as the imams, who keep telling them lines and lies. Such as “We will honor you” and “You will go to paradise” and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s some strange kind of “We.” For the reader might ,very well ,notice the those same Muslim clerics who so thoroughly mind indoctrinate them into actually wanting to become human bombs are never, ever, the ones who strap bombs vest on themselves and then go out and blow themselves up in a suicide bombing. Those Islamic clerics just mind condition and then manipulate them to become, literally, dangerous to self and others by engaging in murderous bombs attacks. Ten the same Muslim clerics sit home safe all the while the deadly bombing are going on. Therefore those Islamic clerics who use those girls and women as stooges for the jihad are both despicable and cowardly.
    In addition, Islam gives female be they girls or women, little to no value or worth because Islam because is, in essence, a religion of extreme misogyny. Nevertheless, the Muslim clerics and the jihadist leaders of different jihad organizations will not hesitate to use girls and women for the advancement of their jihad agenda for Islam. How Ironic. How unconscionable! How callous! They are so very wicked. The Bible informs its reader that “The counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Proverbs 12:5. [N.K.J.V.]

  15. thallepak says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 2:56 pm

    THREAT for Germans, A traitor is back

  16. vtology says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 2:56 pm

    I guess she should not be executed, give her a chance to raise her kids in Germany but monitor everything she does, and she MUST publicly and loudly renounce islam, or no deal.

  17. gravenimage says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 3:32 pm

    Muslima who left Germany to join the Islamic State wants to return, says she made a “big, big mistake”
    ………………..

    And now she wants to return to Germany to plot the murder of Infidels there…don’t let her back in!

  18. TKF says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 5:39 pm

    Uh…..NO! You made your bed, Muslima, now lie in it.

    • Peter WF says

      Feb 3, 2019 at 8:00 pm

      100% agree. Let her “enjoy” what she has built.

  19. FYI says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 6:05 pm

    Stay away from islam

    Be smart:if the choice is between becoming ensnared by islam or becoming an atheist.

    Be an atheist.

    At least THINK for yourself:read,study,do music,art.

    There are ex-muslims and former converts to islam who made the wise choice to leave.

    Stay away from islam.

  20. kiki says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 7:39 pm

    How do you know ISIS didn’t LET them ESCAPE to INFILTRATE their Host Country?

  21. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 10:36 pm

    Under German law, may a 15-year-old make an irrevocable decision such as getting a permanent tattoo or joining a religion that doesn’t allow you to leave?

  22. Save Europe says

    Feb 3, 2019 at 11:30 pm

    She’s a traitor and a hater of the free West. She made her bed. She can lie in it.

  23. John says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 2:45 am

    Tough Titties, you Knew what you were doing, you made your bed, lie and die in it

  24. Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 4:43 am

    In freedom you make your choice, if that choice turns out to be wrong for you, you don’t just get to make another one. No my friends, with that decision comes responsibility.
    If I purchase an item and decide I don’t want it anymore, the storekeeper explains you had the freedom and you chose that item, that you no longer want it is not my concern.
    She chose ISiS and now they’ve been all but defeated she thinks she can just choose the winning side.
    Besides, anyone who’s a third wife to anyone is immoral if not idiotic.

  25. TigerCat says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 5:10 am

    If it was such a big mistake, why are you still wearing your nickab?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 4, 2019 at 10:32 pm

      +1

  26. Terra Nova says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 5:27 am

    Germany, if you don’t send this woman to jail and let her come back and even help her, pretty soon there will be hundreds of women doing those tricks, And what about the husband with all the “simple” technics.
    Years before, all the young muslim men ran to Europe, left their wives and children behind in war countries,
    the same is happening now, what about the other 2 women the husband of Leonora was married to, and their children.! They are left behind to be decamped and raped and can not go anywhere, but Leonora can, because knows when she comes back, there will be almost no punishment.
    And that is how coward countries work.
    For Sweden the same..And you are lucky if she does not sue you, that you did not get her out, when things did not please her any more. Nice, you go to a murderous pack in an Arab country, to help the pact with cleaning cooking, etc, and then you may be had to work to hard and decide to come back with your “tech” husband get money and life goes on like something never happened. That is not how the old ball bounces. We all have done things in our life, where we are not proud of and some times pay for it dearly for our whole life, but most of it was not related to war criminals.
    But then why not, if you know beforehand how easy it gets when they get back, especially when children are involved. Blackmail plays a big rol in it too with the children. But it will play out different then you think, believe me, you can go on for a long time, but then all of a sudden it stop and turns around and what you did comes back on a moment you never expected and thought, it was forgotten, but it was not, it never is.
    This is a UNIVERSAL LAW. And that will never change. Universal Laws never, ever change. Remember that!
    You can not change Universal Laws. People might think they are changing them, but it will NOT work and you will always be thrown back on the same Universal Law, and that is a good thing, otherwise we would have perished already a long time ago.And it makes no difference when you are white, black, green, blue or purple.
    Same U Law for all.

  27. Scott Allen says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 6:32 am

    When did she join Isis? If it was in the very beginning, when the world didn’t know much, then fine, perhaps give her a break. But if it was after the world watched beheadings, people burned alive, gays thrown off roofs, etc, then we should show NO mercy. Her pea brained husband and her were both attracted to that and it’s just a matter of time before they both become involved in terrorism.. In that case, leave her in prison in Syria.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 4, 2019 at 10:33 pm

      Spot on. Even those clueless about Islam knew that ISIS was evil.

  28. Giacomo Latta says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 11:16 am

    Leonora:
    ”Yes, I’ll admit that over the past four years I wanted to personally slit the throat of every one of you disbelievers, but now that I’ve been abandonned by my believing brethren Isee things differently. So, I repent now and no harm done. Friends now?”
    Whatever happened to treason?

  29. Richard Courtemanche says

    Feb 4, 2019 at 1:37 pm

    An example for want-to-be adventurers in the future. There’s enough reliable information available nowadays to prevent this.

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