Jennifer Williams. Source: Twitter
LAST Monday, Jennifer Williams had 60 followers on Twitter. Today, she has 6700 and counting.
Sounds great but here's the problem: A healthy number of them are Islamic extremists, and supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
In blog post for Lawfarethe Texas beauty describes how an innocent tweet she sent out as part of a humorous campaign against Islamic extremists has resulted in her earning the attention of many undesirable male admirers.
It all started when the hashtag "#MuslimApologies" began trending on Twitter. The hashtag was a tongue-in-cheek response to people in the media in the US who, in the wake of the beheadings of Westerners by ISIS, questioned why Muslims such as Ms Williams have not been more vocal about denouncing terrorism.
Tired of being held responsible for the actions of a few extremists, Ms Williams and others decided to take a humorous stand by apologising for everything that is wrong with the world, from the Twilight saga to Pluto's declassification as a planet.
But when Ms Williams sent her tweet out, she never expected people would take it seriously.
"Sorry I read the Quran to learn abt terrorist beliefs but ended up converting to Islam b/c of what it said. #MuslimApologies #sorrynotsorry", she wrote.
It was meant to be a joke but as we all know, subtly doesn't always translate to social media. Soon Ms Williams, with her platinum blonde hair and penchant for red lipstick and tattoos, was being retweeted by a disturbing number of people who had the black flag of ISIS as their Twitter profile photo.
"Men whose profile pictures showed them in traditional Saudi dress (sometimes behind the wheel of a swanky SUV or insanely expensive sports car) started replying to my tweet and asking to speak to me in private," she writes. "One guy told me how beautiful I would look in hijab (in other words, how beautiful I would look once I covered myself up and stopped looking like an infidel). Another just straight up asked me to marry him."
Ms Williams also noticed her tweet being used in ISIS propoganda to support the very cause she was trying to denounce.
"I, for one, do not appreciate having my conversion story used to attract more people to a repugnant ideology that spawns suicide bombings and beheadings," she wrote.
Ms Williams is hoping all the hype will die down and she can get back to her day job as Deputy Foreign Policy Editor at Lawfare but for now she believes it is a scary reminder of the role social media can play in terrorism.
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