That’s what Paulin-Ramirez’s mom has said after her daughter was freed in Ireland. 31-year-old Paulin-Ramirez was arrested on terror charges: their objective was Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
Her mother, Christine Holcomb-Mott, is heartbroken and worried about Paulin-Ramirez’s son, Christian, who she says is being exposed to her daughter’s radical Islamic values.
“He said that Christians will burn in hellfire,”Holcomb-Mott told The New York Post of a phone conversation with her grandson. “That’s what they are teaching this baby.”
The boy’s grandmother said Christian’s name has been changed to Walid and he is now attending a madrassa, or Muslim school, in Ireland.
“He’s in an Islamic school,” Holcomb-Mott’s husband, George Mott, himself a convert to Islam, told the Post. “They’re teaching him hate.”
…Mott, who converted to Islam decades ago, told theWall Street Journal his stepdaughter lacked knowledge of the basic principles of Islam and did not truly understand the faith. He said she became radicalized after linking up to Islamic fundamentalists via the Internet, including a Colorado man named Najibullah Zazi, a suspected al-Qaida associate who pleaded guilty last month in a plot to set off bombs in the New York subway system.
Mott told the Journal he asked Paulin-Ramirez: “What are you going to do, strap a bomb on and blow up something?”
He said she responded by saying, “If necessary, yes.”
NY Daily News adds. “Just a very insecure, unhappy person that was just looking for something to hang onto, I guess,” Christine Mott said, according to the Web site. After several failed marriages, Mott said her daughter wed a Muslim and began covering up her hair and face and with a scarf, leaving only a narrow slit for her eyes”.
Cross-posted from T&P (contains some other updates).
