(Wall Street Journal) Jessie Van Eetvelde was a Belgian supermarket cashier who heard the Muslim call to prayer on a vacation in Morocco 11 years ago and converted to Islam. Back home she married a Dutch Muslim man, and in 2014 the couple headed to Syria to join Islamic State’s self-professed holy war.
Today, Ms. Van Eetvelde is detained in a camp in northern Syria, a widow caring for her two toddlers. She says she just wants to go home. But her country doesn’t want her — and is fighting a legal battle to keep her out.
“We hope to get back,” she said in a WhatsApp voice recording she made for the Wall Street Journal. “That’s what we all wished from the beginning, but probably nobody cares about us.”
