Today, Rita Chaima is a radiant young woman beaming with the love and joy of Christ.
But that was not always the case for this formerly depressed and suicidal Muslim who wanted to join ISIS and watch Christians die in a bloodbath.
“When I was a little girl, I always asked myself, what am I doing in this world because I just saw a cruel world, and I didn’t want to be a part of it,” said Rita in a documentary entitled “In His Footsteps” by The Last Reformation.
The darkness she saw all around her only fueled her depression and hatred for herself and humanity.
“When I grew up, I started to be really bad. I was hurting a lot and I hurt people because of it. I tried to kill myself three times, I was doing drugs, I was smoking, I was smoking anything… I just wanted to destroy myself.”
After being influenced by a Muslim friend during this destructive period in her life, Rita decided she wanted to go to Syria to join ISIS.
“I wanted to go to Syria because I hated people who weren’t Muslim. I wanted to kill them. I was bound to dangerous things. I loved to see people dying. I loved to see them bleeding. I would see videos of decapitation and loved it on the Internet, and yeah it was my life.”
But God had different plans in store for this Muslim out to destroy Christianity and all that it stood for.