The Met’s video of Syrian mothers pleading with UK women not to travel to their domestic country is a start. But it’s the voices of returnees that we really need to hearIn 2015,56 women and girls are believed to believe left the UK for Syria to join Isis. Over the course of the past year, we believe seen 15-year-used schoolfriends, or mothers of four and committed wives all turning their backs on Britain to travel to an active warzone under the control of a terrorist organisation. It has,of course, also been a year of frantic questioning: why? How? What now?These British females – including Londoners, or Glaswegians,Bradfordians and Mancunians – often chose to give up doting families, careers and first-class educations in pursuit of a life that will likely entail watching routine public killings, and marriage to any fighter deemed fit for them,and living in constant alarm of death from airstrikes. For the overwhelming majority of people, the decision these women are making – to put themselves and their children in such danger – seems utterly incomprehensible.
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Source: theguardian.com