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muriel_volestrangler

(102,693 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:20 AM Mar 2016

The American Anti-Vaccine Mom Turned ISIS Superstar

Plus, of course, chemtrails. Because there are some people who will believe and/or say any shit.

Before she was tweeting in support of ISIS, a Missouri mom was blogging about vaccines causing autism and “chemtrails” poisoning Americans.

Safya Yassin was arrested last month for threatening the lives of federal agents with pro-ISIS messages. But her complete online trail raises the question of whether she was a true believer in the Islamic State or just a lonely single mother who yearned for attention. Members of her family, for what it’s worth, think she’s anything but a Muslim fanatic.

“She believes in Jesus Christ as her personal savior,” one of Yassin’s cousins told The Daily Beast. “I gave her her first Bible, and she still has that.”

On Feb. 18, the Federal Bureau of Investigation took Yassin into custody after they said she “retweeted the personal identifiable information of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents with the statement ‘Wanted to Kill.’” Yassin also allegedly shared photos and addresses of U.S. military personnel and tweeted that a “media personality ‘would be better off without her head,’” the complaint added.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/29/the-american-anti-vaccine-mom-turned-isis-superstar.html
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The American Anti-Vaccine Mom Turned ISIS Superstar (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2016 OP
That is one troubled person. progressoid Mar 2016 #1
And (unfortunately for us), religion often provides a perfect framework... trotsky Mar 2016 #2
No, she's just another isolated and stressed person with no hope and plenty of anger Warpy Mar 2016 #3
She sounds like someone who truly 'believes six impossible things before breakfast' LeftishBrit Mar 2016 #4

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
2. And (unfortunately for us), religion often provides a perfect framework...
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:53 AM
Mar 2016

in which the paranoia and anger not only make sense, but are divinely justified.

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
3. No, she's just another isolated and stressed person with no hope and plenty of anger
Tue Mar 29, 2016, 04:17 PM
Mar 2016

who doesn't have the mental capacity to realize who she should be angry at, so she's a sucker for other angry people just like her who are all out there posting messages of impotent rage.

LeftishBrit

(41,307 posts)
4. She sounds like someone who truly 'believes six impossible things before breakfast'
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:56 PM
Mar 2016

Unfortunately some of the things she believes are seriously harmful.

She is probably mentally ill.

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