'Stab them and poison them': Australian Islamic State bride calls for killing of teachers
Zehra Duman's parents didn't see she was radicalised, until it was too late
Quietly - almost secretly - Zehra Duman morphed from Australian private school student to Islamic State bride and online recruiter for the movement. Her family did not see it coming.
So when the 21-year-old Turkish-Australian gave up her middle-class life in Melbourne for faraway Raqqa, Islamic State's centre in war-ravaged Syria, people were astonished.
"We did not notice any extremist tendencies in her behaviour," said Saniye Coskundag, acting principal of Sirius College's Keysborough campus.
"She's been brainwashed, she wasn't like this three or four months ago," her father Davut Duman told Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper in an article published December 28.
By then, Duman was wed to Islamic State soldier Mahmoud Abdullatif, 23, who reportedly left his own Melbourne home last year. The couple announced their wedding online on December 11, with a photo of her dowry that included an assault rifle.
Now calling herself Zehra Abdullatif or Umm ("Mother") Abdullatif, the Muslim fighter's wife told her online followers her parents had no clue she would elope to Islamic State (IS).
"They were shocked, as I never have been public with my jihadi views. But also heartbroken, as my mum was very close to me ... and she knows she will never see me again," she said on her now suspended Ask.fm page, according to radio reports.