Kosovo has been one of Europe’s most pro-American states since the United States helped it break free of Serbian control. Yet in a generational shift in this largely secular country, Islamic radicalisation is making some in-roads among the young. And it’s not only men who have gone east to join Isis.

Security experts in Kosovo say most Kosovan women who join ISIS do so to follow husbands who want to fight (...) but a few independent women go for their own reasons, considering they are on a sacred mission.

Qamile Tahiri went to Syria with her husband but has since carved out her own role with ISIS. (...) A security source who declined to be named said she runs a women’s camp for ISIS in Syria and is the main online recruiter of ethnic Albanian females.

www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/few-but-fanatical-the-kosovo-women-who-go-over-to-isis-01-22-2016