'Dreamed of raising suicide bombers': the story of the wife of the American supporter of ISIS

British Tanya Gioia, the ex-wife of ISIS supporter American John Georgelas, spoke about her marriage, the dream of children who would fearlessly kill people, life in the Islamic State and return to the United States. Next - from the first person.

My husband was from a very religious family of Orthodox Christians, he learned the Bible by heart,” Tanya says for the YouTube channel Clarion project. — During his teenage years, John suffered from depression and was constantly taking medication, often self-medicating. But overall he was a normal teenager, he had friends, he was in the school league...

He wanted to experience the characteristics of all the cultures that were available. He came from a family of right-wing Republicans: I think even marrying a woman of a different race was a rebellious act for him.

He began studying at a local college, discovered Islam and found it interesting, read the Quran ... Being religious from an early age, John was looking for something important in various beliefs. In addition, he was a rebel by nature, rebelling against what his church and family believed in. His relatives considered it a betrayal of the fact that he converted to Islam.

If you had asked John why he converted, he would have said, “Because the Holy Trinity doesn't make any sense.”

So John became a radical jihadist. At 2002, he moved to Syria with British Muslims who went to Syria to study Arabic. They became Salafists, whose religion was rooted in Saudi propaganda. Before our meeting, John lived in Syria for six months.

In John, I was attracted to the fact that both of us had a passion for jihad. After our wedding, his views became even more radical.

I introduced it to my girlfriends and their husbands. We came to America. Then I believed in jihad and thought that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were a mistake. He began to watch more and more of Bin Laden’s videos. John was still radically minded, but in America no one supported him in it, so he studied from websites.

From the moment my son learned to walk and talk, I raised him for jihad. I wanted to grow up fearless male warriors who would take over the world, while being very smart, in order to circumvent their enemies with cunning.

I wanted them to grow up and not be afraid to kill people. I wanted them to not be afraid of being killed.

From time to time, my ex-husband would take our eldest child into the desert with his neighbors, al-Qaeda supporters, where they would practice shooting Kalashnikovs, just for the sake of training. They didn't teach him anything else.

Without informing me, John joined ISIS and swore an oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (leader of ISIS - ForumDaily).

He became a propagandist for the Islamic State. John's goal was to convey to people why we need jihad and why we cannot do without it in our time.

13 February 2015, I got a divorce. It was an American divorce. I am no longer a Muslim extremist, I am not for jihad and not for caliphate.

I tell my children that their father is away from home at war. I compare it to Star Wars, saying their dad joined the dark side of the Force. I say that I was also on the dark side, but I changed.

Because of our beliefs, my ex-husband and I put the lives of our children at risk. “I want them to always know that I am very sorry about all this,” Tanya concluded her story.

Recall that 22 March 2019, the White House said: The US “wiped ISIS off the face of the earth”.

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