(RTÉ) The Special Criminal Court has been told that Lisa Smith espoused a very “politicised” and “harsh” approach to Islam and wanted a husband who would be “a shaheed,” a martyr.
Carol Karimah Duffy said she knew Ms Smith and her family from childhood and she moved in with her when she decided to convert.
Ms Duffy testified today that Ms Smith talked a lot about jihad and suicide bombers, justifying why suicide bombs happened and viewed the situation as “us and them.”
The 39-year-old former Defence Forces member has pleaded not guilty to membership of a terrorist organisation ISIS and financing terrorism.
Carol Karimah Duffy is from Dundalk and converted to Islam in the late 1990s, married twice and lived in Dublin and Co Louth.
