An American woman linked to an alleged Muslim plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist has been released from an Irish jail but the fate of her six-year-old son remains unclear. Now Jamie Paulin Ramirez’s family is frantic to find out more about their grandson.
The boy’s name was Christian when he lived in Colorado but his grandmother says Paulin Ramirez changed her son’s name to Walid and enrolled him in a radical Muslim school in Ireland. His grandmother says the little boy told her he was learning how to shoot a gun and kick and fight.
Christine Holcomb Mott also recalled a phone conversation where the boy said, “You need to convert to Islam right now because Christians are going to burn in hellfire.”
George Mott, Holcomb Mott’s husband who is also a Muslim convert, noticed a radical streak in his stepdaughter. Holcomb Mott recalled, “He asked her, ‘What are you going to do – strap a bomb on?’ She said, ‘If necessary.’”
According to her mother, before federal officials seized Paulin Ramirez’s computer last fall, she had chatted online with Colleen LaRose, nicknamed “Jihad Jane,” who’s accused of plotting to kill that same Swedish cartoonist. Holcomb Mott claims Najibullah Zazi was also a friend. He’s the Colorado man who pleaded guilty last month to trying to bomb New York’s subway.
Holcomb Mott also says her daughter had chatted online with a man from the Middle East who wanted to come to Colorado. “We found papers where she had downloaded the forms to sponsor somebody into this country,” Holcomb Mott said. “When she told me that he wanted to come here to learn how to be a pilot I said, ‘My God, Jamie, that should be a red flag’ [but she said] ‘Oh, no, no, he’s a good guy he’s not that kind of person.’”
Irish authorities have filed no charges against Paulin Ramirez.