{"id":53578,"date":"2016-03-03T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_a_swedish_girl_isis_and_a_cautionary_tale_of_global_terrorism\/"},"modified":"2016-03-03T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T17:00:14","slug":"nyt_a_swedish_girl_isis_and_a_cautionary_tale_of_global_terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53578","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) A Swedish Girl, ISIS and a Cautionary Tale of Global Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a running-away-from-home nightmare for the age of global terrorism. Marilyn Nevalainen, a pregnant teenager, decided to follow her boyfriend last year when he set out to wage jihad, leaving the lakes and forests of southwest Sweden for life under the Islamic State in the desert heat of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently lacking any clear idea of what she was getting herself into, she ended up with militants near Mosul, with a new baby to care for and her boyfriend dead on an Iraqi battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, Ms. Nevalainen, now 16, and her infant son made it out alive. Much remains unknown about how she turned up two weeks ago in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, and she has not spoken publicly beyond a brief television interview in which she contended that she had followed her boyfriend without knowing \u201cwhat ISIS means, what Islam is, nothing.\u201d\u009d She is now back in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/03\/world\/europe\/a-swedish-girl-isis-and-a-cautionary-tale-of-global-terrorism.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a running-away-from-home nightmare for the age of global terrorism. Marilyn Nevalainen, a pregnant teenager, decided to follow her boyfriend last year when he set out to wage jihad, leaving the lakes and forests of southwest Sweden for life<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53578\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,168,200,119,452,110,148,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-globalization","category-sweden","category-teens-youth","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}