Alleged Terrorist Named Jihad Reportedly Converted Two White Women Into Muslim Brides
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The man accused of last week’s deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue reportedly led a secret life of multiple marriages, including unions with two white converts he met through Islamic dating apps.
Jihad al-Shamie, 35, is said to have kept each marriage hidden while telling his wives that Islamic law permitted him “up to four” spouses. One of his wives, a 38-year-old convert from Lancashire, told the Manchester Evening News she married him in January 2022 after connecting on the app Muzz. She alleges that over three years, al-Shamie subjected her to repeated sexual abuse. “I thought I loved him at the beginning, because he showed me something that I wanted,” she said, adding, “He was controlling and abusive. He did rape me multiple times, but to us we just want to fulfill what our husbands say.”
Text messages between the couple, obtained by the newspaper, reportedly show al-Shamie admitting he had hidden his first marriage to a British Pakistani woman, with whom he shares three children. “I do have a wife and a baby son at home. I didn’t tell you because I really liked you and wanted you to be my 2nd wife,” he allegedly wrote. “But I shouldn’t have lied. It was wrong of me.”
Police also arrested another white convert—a National Health Service nurse and mother of five—on suspicion of terror offenses last Friday. She remains in custody.
Authorities said al-Shamie additionally targeted an 18-year-old student, allegedly showing her Islamic State propaganda and describing sexual fantasies. Police stated that the synagogue attack, which claimed at least one life, was “influenced by extreme Islamist ideology.”
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