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" Then another ISIS fighter stopped me on the street one day. He said, “You can’t look like that here.” He was from Belgium. To me it was funny. You come here and are going to tell me what to wear? He said, “This is Islamland.” I said, “No, this is Syria. "

Wendy Pearlman , We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria


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Wendy Pearlman quote : Then another ISIS fighter stopped me on the street one day. He said, “You can’t look like that here.” He was from Belgium. To me it was funny. You come here and are going to tell me what to wear? He said, “This is Islamland.” I said, “No, this is Syria.