Isis women are like gangsters, moans mother stuck in Syria

“It was worse than I expected”.

“I wanted to see him, I wanted the children to see their father and the baby to meet him”.

“There was a gangster kind of mentality among single women there”.

“They would sit together and huddle around their laptops and watch ISIL videos together and discuss them and everything. And it just wasn’t my cup of tea”, Begum said. She didn’t think she’d be there for very long.

“So I decided that I was going to try and speak a few sense into him”, she was quoted as having told Channel 4 news. Will he come back?

“I was doing the school run on my own and I wanted to know if he had a place in my children’s futures”.

“I was seeing on the news at this point that ISIS was going from bad to worse…”

Bilal Abdul Kareem, an American journalist who works with Channel 4 News, said on his Web site that he helped to negotiate her release.

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Asked why she made the trip in the first place, Begum said: “He’s my husband and all of a sudden he’s not there”.

Her husband, Al-Harith, born Ronald Fiddler, is a Muslim convert who was suspected of terrorism by the USA but freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2004 after lobbying by the British government.

One of the more well-publicized instances of Britons travelling to Syria to join jihadists was the case of three British teenage girls who crossed the Turkey-Syria border to join ISIS in February. She appealed to an Islamic court to leave, but was rebuffed. “She and her children are now in the process of recovering from their ordeal”.

Her passport, as well as the children’s documents and all their money, was “snatched” as soon as she arrived in Syria.

Speaking to Channel 4 News from the Syrian border with Turkey, Begum said she was denied permission to leave Syria and was forced to use people smugglers to secure her return.

She said she did not expect what she found there in Raqqa.

“He is a family man and for me to take the children to see him and come away from him would have been more powerful than anything I could have said at the time”. I’ve always known him to be a good man with good characteristics. “That is where I consider to be home but I am just not sure at the moment of the track record of the current government if the United Kingdom is somewhere I can come back to and achieve justice”, she explained. I was hoping that would be the deciding factor and they would let us go after a while.

A report released last month indicated dozens of fighters have defected from the group, notorious for beheadings and blowing up ancient monuments, due to disillusionment over killing fellow Sunni Muslims and civilians.

“They demonstrate that [ISIS] is not the jihadist utopia that the group’s videos promise; and that many of its own fighters have deep concerns about the group’s strategy and tactics”.

Begum, who fled from Manchester with her children, said she chose to join the extremist group in an attempt to see her husband again and to reconnect her family.