Woman called Isis has her Facebook account disabled

She is named Isis after the Egyptian Goddess.

“Why would you disable my personal account?” she tweeted at Facebook earlier this week “MY REAL NAME IS ISIS ANCHALEE /facepalm”.

The 22-year-old engineer who started the #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign earlier this year claims she couldn’t enter her Facebook account on Tuesday.

She said she sent Facebook a screenshot of her passport, proving that her birth name was Isis.

“Facebook thinks I’m a terrorist and froze my account”, Anchalee said, to which Zandman replied, “I was afraid that might be the case…”

Tweeting to the @facebook account, Anchalee said: “I sent you my passport but it’s not good enough for validation?”

The San Francisco engineer was reportedly asked to prove her identity three times to Facebook.

Only after a third attempt of sending her details to the website, her account was finally restored along with an apology from the company, which she took a screen grab of and tweeted.

Engineer Isis Anchalee had the bad experience of being blocked by Facebook because the social media site thought she has linked to the jihadist group behind the recent Paris terror attacks and beheading of captives in Syria.

“Isis, sorry about this”. I don’t know what happened. “I’ve reported it to the right people and we’re working on fixing it”, he wrote. In fact, as noted in an earlier tweet from Anchalee earlier this year, more than 50,000 people signed a petition asking the media to stop using the name ISIS to refer to terrorists, as it can be harmful to girls to constantly hear their name used to describe the terror organisation.

Users are asked to refrain from any symbols, unusual characters, punctuation, religious titles, or “offensive or suggestive words of any kind” to their names to “keep our community safe”. But it’s also allowed Facebook to shutter the accounts of real people, based on “authenticity”.

Shortly after making the post, Mr Anchalee tweeted an update on the situation saying she had regained access to her account.

Just a day before this episode, Isis Anchalee had vented her frustration on Twitter about cab service drivers quizzing her about her name.