Ahlam al-Nasr.. The poetess of ISIS

A day after she and her father arrived in Syria in 2014, 16-year-old Ahlam al-Nasr got married to leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) Mohamed Mahmoud (Abu Usama al-Gharib), to start a new journey in the alleged “Caliphate”.

Nasr, now 19 years old, is called by ISIS members as “the Islamic State Poetess” due to her poetry in praise of al-Baghdadi.

Due to the Syrian civil war that was triggered following the Arab Spring, Nasr went to a Gulf State, where her father was working. Later, she tried to return home before the announcement about ISIS formation by al-Baghdadi; but she failed. However, she succeeded to go back home in 2014. 

She is a victim to the “Caliphate Dream” which shrouds many Muslims’ mindset. Due to her pro-extremism ideologies, Nasr had to choose between two options: whether to join ISIS or to commit a suicide attack against a U.S. military base in the Gulf. She dreams to return to Saudi Arabia to “conquer” it with the ISIS emir Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Her husband was one of ISIS members who paid “homage” to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Abu Usama al-Gharib is a Moroccan- Austrian citizen who was living in Germany. He was sentenced to several terms in prison. While he was trying to infiltrate into Syria through the Turkish territories, al-Gharib was arrested by the Turkish authorities. However, he was released in a prisoner swap deal between ISIS and Ankara.

Al-Nasr’s mother is the former professor of Islamic jurisprudence at the University of Dammam in Saudi Arabia, Iman Mustafa al-Bugha. But, her grandfather Mustafa al-Bugha, is a Syrian preacher and pro-Syrian regime.

‘The alliance of apostates’

"The first store I entered in Raqqa province was the shop of the weapon 'Azzat al-Jihad’, It is awesome. I was gifted a bomb, dragger, DShK bullets and a banner of the Caliphate,” Nasr posted on her Twitter account after her arrival to Syria’s Raqqa in 2014.

Nasr, who is also known “Um Usama al-Demeshqia” was trained to use weapons and to be a shooter. “Imagine you stand before leaders of the alliance of apostates,” her trainers told her. Since then, she has never dropped her weapons.

Her first poetry book “The Blaze of Truth” was published in 2014; it composed of was107 poems, written in the form of monorhyme. She also wrote a book titled "Terrorism...The Real Life", in which she called for raising children on pro-terrorism ideology.

‘Zawahiri: The Old Ball’

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was described by Nasr as  “a ball," with which leader of Syrian Liberation Front Abu-Muhammad al-Julani was playing. The Liberation Front was previously known as The Nusra Front, which split from al-Qaeda.

“Al-Qaeda leader enjoyed playing the role of being a ball that was kicked around by the left and right feet. He was behaving childishly in the most serious issues concerning the nation in general and jihad in particular,” Nasr said. 

Al-Julani exploited Zawahiri to achieve his personal interests and then disowned him, looking for others to achieve other gains, she added.

Nasr quoted ISIS former spokesperson Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s essay “Zawahiri: The Old Ball,” in which he described al-Qaeda leader as worn ball.  He said that Zawahirir has become “al-Qaida a joke and a toy in the hands of a treacherous, bay‘a-(homage) breaching, inexperienced boy (i.e. Julian)."

ISIS poetess also accused the" Zawahiri " of adopting the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology, predicting that he will have their fate