(NY Daily News) A Bronx nurse who planned to abandon his wife and young son to join ISIS in Syria was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison by a judge disturbed by his calculating, cold-blooded radicalization.
Adam Raishani, 32, was arrested at Kennedy Airport on June 21, 2017, before boarding a plane bound for Turkey. He’d left behind a patronizing, sexist will for his wife that revealed he’d unsuccessfully tried to persuade her to join him in jihad.
“Join — Over the years you have shown disgust and animosity towards this option. I did my best to reason with your intellect. Unfortunately, I was not successful. It makes me sad that you reject this with all the proofs and evidence that Allah had made apparent to you,” Raishani, a native of Yemen, wrote to his wife.
