Alex,
a 23-year-old Sunday school teacher and babysitter, was trembling with
excitement the day she told her Twitter followers that she had converted
to Islam.
For
months, she had been growing closer to a new group of friends online —
the most attentive she had ever had — who were teaching her what it
meant to be a Muslim. Increasingly, they were telling her about the
Islamic State and how the group was building a homeland in Syria and
Iraq where the holy could live according to God’s law.
-NY Times
