Viral tweets show ISIS sweet-talking Texan blonde

(Al Arabiya News)- A blonde Texan woman found herself the center of unwanted attention after she recounted the story of her conversion to Islam on  Twitter, receiving marriage proposals from suspected extremists that have since gone viral.

The saga started when Jennifer Williams, a researcher at the Washington-based Brookings Center for Middle East Policy contributed late last month to the viral #MuslimApologies Twitter campaign in which Muslims - in a bid to counter negative portrayals of Islam - tweeted sarcastic apologies for their faith.

Shortly after posting the tweet, Williams found she had become popular – with many expressing happiness for her and welcoming her to Islam.

But the messages of support soon took on a more radical streak, when militants from ISIS-linked accounts began to follow and retweeted her original message, and sent her marriage proposals. Williams later showed posts from the extremist linked-accounts that now followed her on Twitter.