Jennifer Williams is now encouraging terrorists to “try reading the Qur’an instead of Twitter”.
The above tweet, which has been retweeted 12,000 times, came from Jennifer Williams, a researcher at the Brookings Institution.
She has gained over 4,000 followers as a result.
As she writes, you'd never guess she was a Muslim: she has platinum blonde hair, blue eyes, has tattoos, and doesn't wear hijab. But as she explains: "I am Muslim. I also speak Arabic and hold a Master's degree in International Security with a focus on terrorism and the Middle East."
She states on her blog that her life was changed when she read the Qur'an – she was trying to work out how men like Osama bin Laden use it to justify their violence. "What I found in its pages changed my life," she writes.
So what happened next wasn't to her liking. As the tweet took on a viral life of its own and the number of retweets began to climb and climb, she writes:
I soon began to notice a disturbing trend: of the thousands of people who were retweeting and following me, many of them had the black flag of ISIS as their Twitter profile photos. Others had pictures of themselves holding swords, standing in front of the black ISIS flag. Uh-oh.
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