They look more like something that would appear on MTV. These days, many of them are decidedly less religious. It used to be that jihadi recruitment videos opened with the call to prayer and readings from the Quran. That's a far cry from what is seen as the traditional route to jihad. Even her live-in boyfriend says he didn't know she was Muslim.Īnd yet, she is accused of calling herself Jihad Jane in Internet chat rooms, and soon after her conversion allegedly went trolling for people who might join forces with her to wage jihad on behalf of other Muslims. She converted to Islam, but investigators say she was never connected to any particular mosque. The recent Jihad Jane case may be the latest example of this trend.Ĭolleen LaRose, 46, was a housebound woman from the Philadelphia area. The latest wave of jihadists traveling to Pakistan and elsewhere for training may have been motivated by a sense of jihadi cool. One explanation has less to do with religion than with adventure. in the past nine months, experts are trying to understand why so much is happening now. With so many terrorism cases emerging in the U.S. Officials say LaRose, who called herself Jihad Jane, is among a recent wave of terrorism recruits drawn more by the adventure of holy war than by religion itself. American Colleen LaRose (shown in an undated image obtained from the SITE Intelligence Group) is accused of planning deadly attacks in Europe and South Asia and recruiting "violent jihadist fighters" to carry them out.
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