ISIS bride Kirsty Rosse-Emile’s old jihadist posts paint damning picture ahead of her return to Melbourne

Kirsty Rosse-Emile’s old social media accounts – littered with jihadist imagery, hard-line religious slogans and posts praising strict Islamic doctrine – are set to haunt the alleged ISIS bride when she lands in Melbourne tonight.

The Australian woman, who travelled from Victoria to Syria in 2014 to live under Islamic State, has spent years insisting she was “tricked” into joining the terror group and wants to return home with her children.

But her own father has publicly accused her of lying.

Guy Rosse-Emile told The Nightly last year his daughter willingly left Australia with her husband, Moroccan-Australian jihadist Nabil Kadmiry, specifically to live “under the caliphate”.

“They went there with a view of establishing themselves in Islamic State in Syria under the caliphate,” he said.

“When she said, ‘Oh, I was tricked’ and all that, it’s not true.”

Now, archived Facebook accounts linked to Ms Rosse-Emile provide a confronting glimpse into the increasingly hard-line ideology she appeared to embrace before leaving Australia.

Under her Muslim name Asmaa Rosse-Emile, Ms Rosse-Emile’s multiple Facebook profiles featured dozens of religious posts and images ranging from conservative Islamic teachings to explicit jihadist propaganda.

One graphic posted in July 2012 declared: “JIHAD – THE ONLY SOLUTION”, superimposed over bullets, Arabic script and a sword.

Another image proclaimed: “Lions of Islam – Jihad fi Sabilillah”, alongside photographs of extremist figures including al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and Islamic State founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

A separate image featured a gold bullet emblazoned with Arabic text emerging from the barrel of a gun.

Other posts promoted ultra-conservative views on women, modesty and gender interaction.

In September 2010, Ms Rosse-Emile shared a post stating: “It is better for a man that a steel nail be driven through the centre of his head rather than if he touches the palm of a strange women.”

Another warned women who wore “tight fitting clothes” would not come “within 500 years of the smell of Jannah” – the Islamic term for paradise.

The profiles repeatedly referenced “Allahu Akbar”, Ramadan, martyrdom, heaven and strict Islamic teachings.

One post criticised Muslim men and women for posting photographs of themselves online, warning profile pictures could create “fitnah” – temptation or moral corruption.

“Fb personally is for keeping in touch with friends not showing off my make-up face or my biceps,” she wrote.

Another post sought marriage prospects for other Muslim women.

“Asalamulaykum [Peace be upon you] sisters does anyone know of any sister who is looking to get married?” she posted in January 2014.

“God willing, please private message me and let me know. May Allah reward you with goodness.”.

Profile images showed women in full-face niqabs and religious graphics invoking death, paradise and submission to Allah.

Some of the posts were devotional or benign in nature, including Ramadan greetings and inspirational Islamic messages.

But taken together, they paint a picture starkly at odds with Ms Rosse-Emile’s later public claims that she never intended to join Islamic State.

Ms Rosse-Emile, who grew up in Melbourne’s south-east, was just 19 when she left Australia with Kadmiry.

Her father said the couple initially claimed they were moving to Morocco.

“They said they were going to live in Morocco, because Nabil Kadmiry is from there,” Mr Rosse-Emile told The Nightly.

“I said, ‘well, she’s going to have a good life’ and then seven or eight months later she rang her mum on WhatsApp and said that she’s in Syria.”

Kadmiry was later captured by Kurdish forces after the collapse of Islamic State and stripped of his Australian citizenship under anti-terror laws.

Ms Rosse-Emile surrendered to Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and has spent years in detention camps including Al-Hawl and Al Roj alongside her surviving children.

In media interviews since 2019, she has pleaded with the Australian Government to repatriate her and has claimed she poses no threat.

“You don’t know my story, you don’t know why I’m here, it’s not my choice to be here,” she told the ABC in February last year.

But her father rejected those claims outright.

“So when she’s crying saying ‘I was tricked to go there’ and all that, I’m not very happy with that, because she’s lying,” he said.

“That’s what she wanted. She wanted to be in a Muslim country where the Sharia law will always be de rigueur.”