KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 ― A 26-year-old doctor who claims to be a Malaysian is kicking up a storm on social media sites with tales of her love affair with militant movement Islamic State (IS), that led to her leaving the Southeast Asian tropics for war-torn Syria where she met and entered into an arranged marriage with a Moroccan jihadist fighter.

The woman has only given her name as Shams, though she tweets frequently under the moniker @BirdofJannah and blogs on Facebook and Tumblr in an account she calls Diary of a Muhajirah.

Most of her posts, as collated by US social media website Buzzfeed, are arguments to justify the IS war on the western world, but a fair number show a human side to her daily life as the wife of a militant fighter.

“My husband and I, are totally different. We are from two different continents and we speak different languages. I remember when we are newly married about three months ago, I told him that I don’t know how to cook Moroccan or Western food. He laughed and said that he don’t mind. (Sisters be aware, they actually do after some time and I know how to cook Moroccan now!),” she wrote in a Facebook post in reply to a question on her interracial marriage.

In her blog, the woman narrated that she felt compelled to journey to Syria to help the jihadists due to her medical expertise, and finally made that journey in February, through Turkey, with the help of contacts on her social network.

“Stethoscope around my neck and kalash on my shoulder. Martyrdom is my highest dream,” she said on Twitter in an earlier post in January.

A kalash is short for Kalashnikov, an automatic rifle made popular in guerrilla warfare around the world and is also known as the AK-47.

After two months in Syria, she said she decided to get married as she found it difficult to move around without a male escort and was subsequently introduced to her future husband, a Moroccan, who was a friend of her best friend’s husband.

Shams said she took the name “Umm al Baraa” and her husband became “Abu al Baraa” following an IS convention for couples upon marriage.

Neither she nor her husband shared a common language when they wed, Shams said, with her Arabic being poor and her husband only knowing Arabic and French, but were able to jump the language hurdle with the aid of dictionary apps on their smartphones.

Shams said the reality of being married to a militant fighter bit her 11 days after the wedding, when her husband was ordered to join a militant mission.

A screen capture from Tumblr showing the 26-year-old doctor known as Shams and her husband who is a militant fighter. She shares in her posts that she decided to get married as she found it difficult to move around in Syria without a male escort.

“After breakfast, I prepared his bag and handed his kalash. I couldn’t even look at his face, the pain is killing me. He noticed my gloomy face and said this to me, ‘Habibty, I’m married to Jihad before I’m married to you. Jihad is my first wife, and you’re my second. I hope you understand’,” she posted in her Facebook account on August 6.

That same month, Shams shared that she was pregnant with her first child.

In her more recent posts this month, she blogged about suffering from morning sickness but appears not to have hampered her efforts to defend the militant movement’s violent beheadings of journalists and aid workers.

“Isis never killed any civilian except those who deserved for death punishment according to hudud law,” she wrote in a Facebook entry on September 13.

A screen capture of the ‘Diary of a Muhajirah facebook page in which a 26-year-old doctor known as Shams narrates how she felt compelled to journey to Syria to help the jihadists due to her medical expertise.

Putrajaya has designated the IS, formerly known as Islamic State in Iraq (ISIL) and the Levant (ISIL), as a terrorist group.

The government however has said it has no intelligence of women Muslims joining any jihadist groups is Syria following allegations of Malaysian Muslim jihadists working as “comfort women”.

Malaysian police intelligence warned last month that citizens who joined IS to launch strikes in Iraq and Syria, are now training their sights on their home government and several other targets in the country.

The police said 19 suspected local militants have been arrested between April and June this year while they were on their way to Turkey and Syria for training and support from IS under the guise of “humanitarian work”.

The group was planning to establish a hardline Southeast Asian Islamic caliphate which would include Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore.