Turk Woman Moves to Islamic State to Protect Son

Turk woman has been reported to have left Turkey to the Islamic State controlled territory with her son.

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Ummi Abduallah said her move to the militant group’s realm was in part to shield her 3-year-old from the sex, crime, drugs and alcohol that she sees as rampant in largely secular Turkey.

In a series of messages exchanged via Facebook with reporters, Ummi said, “The children of that country see all this and become either murderers or delinquents or homosexuals or thieves.” She adds that,  “The blood and goods of infidels are halal,” she said, meaning she believes that Islam sanctions the killing of unbelievers.

Ummi Abdullah’s story has already made waves in Turkey, where her disappearance became front-page news after her ex-husband, a 44-year-old car salesman named Sahin Aktan, went to the press in an effort to find their child.

Even with U.S. bombs now falling on Raqqa, Ummi Abdullah says she has no second thoughts. “I only fear God,” she wrote.1411592258202

For Aktan, who says he hasn’t seen his son since his ex-wife took the boy, her decision is a selfish form of fanaticism.  He responded saying, “If you want to die, you can do so… But you don’t have the right to bring the kid with you. “No one can give you this right.”

Hours after the AP first published this story, Ummi Abdullah’s Facebook account disappeared. Her messages to the AP were also removed, replaced with a message from Facebook saying they were “identified as abusive or marked as spam.”

Many others in Turkey have carted away family to the Islamic State group under far less public scrutiny and in much greater numbers. In one incident earlier this month, more than 50 families from various parts of Turkey slipped across the border to live under the Islamic State group, according to opposition legislator Atilla Kart.