Kimberly Gwen Polman
Kimberly Gwen Polman is a joint Canadian-American citizen, who traveled to Daesh territory in 2015, and married an islamic militant she had befriended, online.[1] In 2019, after she surrendered to forces allied to the United States, Polman told reporters she deeply regretted her actions.[2]
Polman's mother is American, and her father Canadian. She was raised as a Reformed Mennonite, but later converted to Islam.[1]
Polman told her family she was traveling to Austria, for work.[1] She had been studying nursing, and her online penpal, Abu Ayman, told her her nursing skills were needed.
Polman travelled from Vancouver to Istanbul, on her US passport.[1] The Georgia Straight, a Vancouver paper, reports Soroptimist International issued her a Women's Opportunity Award in 2011.[3]
Polman says she had grown disenchanted with Daesh by 2016, and tried to escape.[1] She says she was captured, and imprisoned, in Raqqa, where she endured brutal interrogation, and rape.
Polman is currently being held in the al-hawl refugee camp in Syria, where she is held with another American woman Hoda Muthana.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Natalie Musumeci (2019-02-20). "Another ISIS bride pleading to come home to US or Canada". New York Post. https://nypost.com/2019/02/20/another-isis-bride-pleading-to-come-home-to-us-or-canada/. Retrieved 2019-02-20. "A dual citizen of the US and Canada, who left the Great White North four years ago to join ISIS, is holed up in a refugee camp in Syria with the Alabama “ISIS bride” — and pleading to return home, according to a report."
- ↑ "An American ISIS Militant Wife Who Left For Syria Now Wants To Come Back Home". News World India. 2019-02-20. https://m.dailyhunt.in/news/india/english/news+world-epaper-newswore/an+american+isis+militant+wife+who+left+for+syria+now+wants+to+come+back+home-newsid-109254016. Retrieved 2019-02-20. "Kimberly Gwen Polman, who possess dual citizenship of the United States and Canadian. Both women, interviewed by The New York Times at the camp, said they were trying to figure out how to have their passports reissued, and how to win the sympathy of the two nations they scorned."
- ↑ Charlie Smith (2019-02-20). "Former Vancouver-area woman travelled abroad to marry ISIS member, according to New York Times". Georgia Straight. https://www.straight.com/news/1203161/former-vancouver-area-woman-travelled-abroad-marry-isis-member-according-new-york-times. Retrieved 2019-02-20. "The New York Times reported that Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, married an Islamic State fighter whom she met online."
- ↑ Kim Hjelmgaard, Michael Collins (2019-02-19). "President Trump: ISIS wife Hoda Muthana won't be allowed to return to the United States". USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/02/19/hoda-muthana-isis-bride-wants-face-us-justice-return-alabama/2914244002/. Retrieved 2019-02-20. "All were taken into custody. Muthana may be the first American spouse or partner of an Islamic State fighter who has sought to return home. The New York Times has reported that another woman, dual U.S.-Canadian national Kimberly Gwen Polman, 46, is also in the al-hawl refugee camp in Syria. She left Canada in 2015."
