Women who join ISIS, are they really just victims?
Marlin was 15 years-old when she decided to travel to Syria last May. She grew up in Boras, Sweden. She wanted to join the Islamic State with her boyfriend and be part of the jihad. According to Swedish press, when she traveled to the Islamic State, she was also pregnant. Allegedly she got “mislead” by an ISIS recruiter in Sweden who convinced her to make the journey.
On February 17 she got rescued by Kurdish anti-terrorist force, CTD, during a raid in Mosul. The girl, who is now 16, is in Kurdistan and she will be hand over to Swedish authority. Her boyfriend, most probably at this point husband, got killed by a Russian airstrike. It is unclear what the girl was doing in Mosul, and why she was moved there.
A statement from the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said the family was informed of the human rescue mission.
Most of the articles that have been published so far emphasis the “misleading” part, treating this girl as a victim. There is a sense of pity around them, as if we are unable to process their choice, so we tend to believe someone else forced them into the jihad. Some girls maybe so, but not all of them.
