Analysts Study Jihadists' Dreams of the Caliphate

Just days before Islamic convert Elton Simpson attacked a controversial “Draw the Prophet Muhammad” contest last May in Garland, Texas, he asked jihadists online to arrange an interpretation of a dream he had of “a woman in a hijab looking down at him on a road.” Nothing is known — at least publicly — about what the dream interpreter may have counseled, but women on the path of jihad in dreams often are interpreted as offering the prospect of paradise. Some analysts argue this dream may...

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