BerensteinBear: neither have I.
But I didn’t grow up in a community where my parents’ generation in Tower Hamlets had burning rags put through their letterboxes by racist violent thugs (I worked in Stepney then, it was a constant threat). A community which bore the backlash of 9/11 and as people tore the colourful Bangladeshi scarves from women’s heads adopted a more Islamic front, while clerics led through religious fervour and gave them a place to belong.
Add years of austerity to an already impoverished area, and a school that hides vital information and creates a safeguarding issue...
The Internet forums that Muslim youth use (normal social sites) are an obvious starting point for radicalisation.
Look how the fully grown adults in ‘Abducted in Plain Sight’ allowed themselves, because if the church context, to overlook the sexual abuse of their child.
This was a not-very-bright 15 yo.
I suspect she was, like her peers in the same situation in Raqqa, horrendously sexually abused before being married off to a Jihadi who was twice her age. No young woman is going to suddenly talk about sex and rape when the people talking to her are male white journalists with a camera.
She can’t de-radicalise herself.
I think she should be allowed to come back, be thoroughly de-briefed for intelligence purposes, interviewed for any violence and crimes she may have been involved in, and treated accordingly;