Wings of a Bird

The Fear Born of a Much Too Personal Look at Jihad [free for 7 days; registration required]
[A German woman wrote a book] "I Was Married to a Holy Warrior," in which she described how she fell in love with an Egyptian, married him and then watched, appalled, as he became progressively more militant and, finally, fully engaged in jihad.
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IN their first seven years of marriage, she said, "my husband drank liquor, he had no beard, he didn't go to the mosque." But in 1994, the same year he became a German citizen, he broke his arm in a bicycle accident. With time on his hands, he started going to a mosque in Heidelberg, ... and before his wife knew it, he had committed himself to the Islamic cause.
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During their time in Bosnia, ... she went with her husband and others to the place near a mountain where three Serbs were executed, an incident that her husband filmed. ... "Then there was a second man, a Serb, on his knees," Ms. Glück said. "I saw a big knife and then I saw his head cut off. I sleep with this memory every night. Afterwards, the mujahedeen played football with the head. Then a third Serb was shot by the men ...
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She does not deny that she was deeply in love with her husband, and like many people in a marriage that is no longer tenable, she clung to it far longer than she should have. "For me," she said, "Islam is a wonderful religion, but I didn't want to live in a sack." ...