Most recently, Jessica Bowie or Aisha Saif (35-year-old New Yorker) was arrested in connection and planning of a terror-inspired plot targeting the New York State Capitol. She described her own transformation to Radical Islamism: “she went from a little girl waving the American flag after 9/11 to now having stickers of the fallen towers". Her having mental health problems and online exposure to ISIS-inspired content and radical networks drove to that shift.
Rise of Extremism
Social Media and other online spaces are radicalizing the youth at an alarming rate.
