HOUSTON — For much of her 31 years, Jaime Paulin-Ramirez had been searching for something or someone as a way to identify herself.
As of last week, she has.
Her big brother, Michael Holcomb, is angry.
“Jihad Jaime…disgusting,” he said.
Jaime Paulin- Ramirez was living in Colorado with her mother and stepfather and had completed real estate, bar tending, computer-aided drawing and medical assisting school. She was also married three times.
Last year, she converted to Islam. On September 11, she announced she was leaving to marry a Muslim man she had met online and was moving to Ireland.
“I was surprised, shocked, angry that she could be so dumb,” Holcomb said.
Ramirez’s mother found items on the home computer that suggested a link to terrorists. Frightened, she contacted authorities, but with no luck.
“They were like still brushing her off, like she was a crazy old lady,” Holcomb said.
But, Irish authorities did respond last week and suspects, including Paulin-Ramirez and her new husband, were arrested in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the prophet Muhammed. Al-Qaida is offering $100,000 for his murder.
Paulin-Ramirez didn’t go to Ireland alone. She took her six-year-old son, Christian.
“Every time my mom would call he asked when they were coming to pick him up,” Holcomb said.
The family said their main focus now is to bring Christian home.
Late Tuesday, the family got word that Paulin-Ramirez is now pregnant again and does not want to return to America.
There remains no word on her son.
