Aminah Mohamad will reportedly be put up for adoption. So that authorities will not be accused of “Islamophobia,” she will most likely be placed with a devout Muslim family. What could possibly go wrong? Well, not all devout Muslims are jihadis, but all jihadis are devout Muslims. Could such a placement reinforce things Ariel Bradley taught young Aminah in her early childhood? Can the possibility of that be dismissed out of hand?
“From devout Christian to raging Jihadi: Weird Instagram posts from Tennessee mom killed in Syrian airstrike reveal how she embraced ISIS bride life – as rescued daughter, eight, prepares to return home,” by Melissa Koenig and Natasha Anderson, Daily Mail, August 3, 2021:
Instagram posts show just enthusiastically a former Evangelical Christian from Tennessee embraced life as an ISIS bride, with her rescued eight year-old daughter Aminah now on the verge of returning to the US to be adopted.
Ariel Bradley shared multiple photos of herself posing with a Koran, looking out at a bomb-scarred Syrian landscape she branded a ‘land of believers’ and eating meat from an animal sacrificed to celebrate the birth of her son.
Bradley, her second husband Tareq Kamleh, and the couple’s youngest son Yousef all died in a 2018 US air strike on a hospital. Aminah was injured but survived.
News of her rescue at Camp Roj refugee camp in Syria was first reported earlier this week, with the youngster now on the verge of returning to the US, where she may be put up for adoption.
US Diplomat Peter Galbraith, who helped rescue Aminah Mohamad from the Camp Roj refugee camp in Syria, told DailyMail.com: ‘Once a child is rescued, appropriate authorities will determine a placement that is in the best interest of the child.’
The repatriation process, which is handled by the U.S. Department of State, involves a DNA confirmation of identity before Aminah can be brought home. Afterwards, authorities will work to determine a placement that is in her best interest.
‘Aminah has been through things that no child should ever go through – war, hunger, the deaths of her mother, father and stepfather, being hidden away. She will need a lot of supports, psychological and material,’ Galbraith, who is not involved in the placement process, explained.
The state department did not provide DailyMail.com with specific details on Aminah’s case, however a spokesman said in a statement, the country’s official policy is to: ‘repatriate, prosecute when appropriate, rehabilitate when possible and reintegrate their foreign terrorist fighter nationals and associated family members currently living in northeast Syria and Iraq’.
The youngster’s grandparents, aunt and uncle live in the US, although it remains unclear if she will be returned to their custody.
They have declined to comment publicly on the death of Aminah’s mom Ariel Bradley, or on the rescue of Aminah, which was first revealed earlier this week.
Aminah’s mom Ariel Bradley grew up a strict Evangelical Christian, but later rebelled against her devout upbringing. She became a drug-taking anti-climate change protester, before converting to Islam after taking up with an Iraqi refugee based in Sweden – Yasin Mohamad – who is Aminah’s father.
Mohamad was killed while fighting in 2015, with Bradley then marrying Australian pediatrician Tareq Kamleh. Bradley and Kamleh were both killed in a hospital air strike in 2018 which injured Aminah, who is now being looked after at a safe location in northern Syria….
Bradley, who grew up in poverty, was homeschooled by her mother with a curriculum based on the beliefs of the Pentecostal Church of God, according to the Herald-Sun. She had several gaps in her knowledge, such as not learning to read until she was a pre-teen and never obtaining a high school diploma or GED.
As she aged, Bradley grew embarrassed of her mother’s evangelism, became an atheist and denounced religion as a ‘delusion.’ She ran away from the family home around age 16 and spent the next decade bouncing between relationships, homes, and religion.
‘Not to throw her under the bus or anything, but she was definitely always looking for love, always looking for that sense of belonging,’ one friend told Buzzfeed in 2015.
‘Her life was a solar system without a star, without a sun,’ another echoed.
Bradley later committed her time to social activism, pushing for racial equality, teachers’ rights and fair housing, while also volunteering with the homeless.
Her friends claim she got tattoos, drank and smoked weed, before developing a crush on a young Muslim man she met while working at a local restaurant.
She then started dressing more modestly, made Muslim friends and wore scarves over her head, and officially converted to Islam in 2011.
‘The thing about Ariel that was just so weird was that she had a clearly segmented life,’ a friend said after Bradley joined ISIS. ‘It was like when I first met her, she was a Christian, and then she was a socialist, and then she was an atheist and then a Muslim.
‘As far as I could tell it was always in relation to whatever guy she was interested in. So if she meets a guy that’s an atheist, she falls into that for a year. Then the guy leaves and she becomes somebody new and it starts all over again.
‘It seemed like whatever guy she was with, she would just crawl into his skin and kind of become him.’
Bradley started talking to Yasin Mohamad on a dating website that year, and traveled to Sweden to meet him in person in December 2011. They wed during her visit.
Her friends, particularly her Muslim friends, were concerned about the arrangement. Some believed that Mohamad, a refugee from Iraq who was not a Swedish citizen, was using her to obtain American citizenship.
‘Everybody warned her and just said, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it, you don’t know him, you don’t know anything about his background, you don’t know his family.’ It could be a trick or something,’ a close female Muslim friend told the news outlet.
When she became pregnant, Buzzfeed reports, she returned home to give birth in her hometown, before moving back to Sweden to be with Mohamad and eventually to Syria so Bradley and Mohamad could join ISIS in 2014….
mortimer says
Robert Spencer is predicting what will likely happen: the authorities will place Aminah Mohamad in a family of jihad-supporting Muslims and raised by them to believe that she should hate the kafirs and subjugate them.
About 15% of Muslims self-declare in opinion surveys as supporters of one or more terrorist groups. In virtually, every gathering of Muslims, approximately one out of six is a jihad-supporter or actual jihadist-wannabe … someone who will participate in jihad when recruited.
Ray Jarman says
+1 Mortimer, You are completely correct and she is a ticking bomb that will most likely kill many.
PMK says
The girl’s parents, aunt and uncle live in the US but will they be good guardians? Given the story of how poorly Ariel was schooled by her mother, what is the future for the little girl if taken in by the grandparents? If she has an aunt and uncle, that means Ariel has a brother and/or a sister, neither of which was mentioned in Robert’s story on PJ Media. How did they turn out?
It shouldn’t be a requirement that Aminah be given to a Muslim family but the story of Ariel’s childhood suggests there was very little love in that household. Perhaps a third option – adoption by a non-Muslim family is called for. This girl is still young enough to grow up in a well-adjusted household and look forward to a happy future.
Walter Sieruk says
That woman who was a Christian but was later proselytized to Islam has been described, “Changing from a devout Christian to a raging jihadist is ” shouldn’t really be a surprise to anyone who knows his or her Bible as sad and tragic this case is .
For this is terrible thing as it had been predicted in the Bible by the Foresight of God.
For the Bible informs its reader “Now the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons …”
First Timothy 4:1. [N.K.J.V.]
James Lincoln says
So, according to the feature article:
“As she aged, Bradley grew embarrassed of her mother’s evangelism, became an atheist and denounced religion as a ‘delusion.’ ”
Apparently she did not consider islam to be a religion…
Kepha says
So, DNA confirms that young Aminah is the child of Ariel Bradley. Apparently, she was also born in the USA. With her identity confirmed by DNA, US officials working on this case have no discretionary authority to bar her return to the USA. By US law, she is a US citizen: end of story.
I hope she gets placed with a good family, and learns how her mother’s bad choices had terrible consequences for herself, her family, and the people of Syria.