‘I went to join Isis in Syria, taking my four-year-old. It was a journey into hell’

[Eugene]

Source: The Observer

‘I went to join Isis in Syria, taking my four-year-old. It was a journey into hell’

Sophie Kasiki is one of the few women to escape from Raqqa, the stronghold of
Islamic State

Kim Willsher in Paris
Saturday 9 January 2016 19.51 GMT

Sophie Kasiki stared at the photograph of a young English-speaking boy in a camouflage uniform and black bandana covered in Arabic calling for unbelievers to be killed in the latest Islamic State propaganda.

Her eyes welled and she swallowed hard. “That could have been my son,” she said, her firm voice wavering. “That’s hard for me to say and makes me want to cry. I would have killed us both rather than let him become a killer, rather than let him fall into the claws of those monsters.”

The “monsters” she is referring to are Islamic State, and Kasiki weighs her words; she knows her four-year-old son was only ever at risk of falling into the jihadis’ lair because she had taken him there.

Kasiki is one of the few western women who have been to the capital of the Isis-declared caliphate at Raqqa in Syria and returned to recount the tale. It was, she said in her first interview with a British newspaper, like a journey into a hell from which there seemed no return.

“I have felt so guilty. I have asked myself how I can live with what I have done, taking my son to Syria,” she told the Observer. “I have hated those who manipulated me, exploited my naivety, my weakness, my insecurity. I have hated myself.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/09/sophie-kasiki-isis-raqqa-child-radicalised

[uppityperson]

1. She is very lucky to have escaped

[tblue37]

2. I can't help but wonder how these people can miss all the reports of vicious

torture and executions of prisoners, including children, and of the sexual enslavement of women, including those who go there willingly.

One of the Austrian schoolgirls who went there last year ended up killed in an airstrike, and the other was beaten to death for attempting to escape.

Reports of what happens to women in areas under Isis control are all over the news. Even if these idiots assume that some of the stories are propagandistic exaggerations, ISIS itself puts out brutal propaganda videos of executions.