The more I read the vile and horrible things some people have posted on this thread, the easier I find it to be sorry for Shamima Begin, especially after the Michael Jackson program, which show how insidious grooming is and how completely taken in by it those groomed can be, not capable for some years, of recognising that what happened to them was grooming and abuse.
The best way to look at this is to say that ISIS is a cult, in the same way that the Jimmy Jones led cult, where their eponymous leader motivated them all to commit suicide in Guyana, or the Branch Dravidians, who died in a shoot out at Waco.
Shamima Begum was a child when she went to Syria, the age when others her age are groomed online and go to meet supposed boy/girl friends at distant railway stations, to find they are predatory adults. The age when pupils run off with teachers or their father's best friend or a neighbour because they have been careful groomed and think this older abusive person can offer them a perfect new live.
I am sure when the ISIS grooming process started there was no mention of beheadings and killings and one of the purposes of the skilful grooming, like people like MJ seems to have used, is that the vulnerable person is gradually led to accept the unacceptable, whether 'consenting' to physical abuse, because it is accepted as proof of 'love', to accepting that to reach a society which is an earthly paradise, some killing is regrettably necessary.
Many of the unpleasant remarks have been based on how she has behaved since she reached the refugee camp. Her vacant expressionless face, the way she seemed not to be relating to the child she had just given birth to, that others were sometimes holding for her. I believe that these are all symptoms of severe mental illness,probably something like a disassociative condition.
This mental illness is described as Dissociation is any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experiences. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality. Dissociation is commonly displayed on a continuum. In mild cases, dissociation can be regarded as a coping mechanism or defense mechanisms in seeking to master, minimize or tolerate stress – including boredom or conflict en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis.
What I see in Shamima Begum is child who was lured into a cult out of which there was no escape once she was in it, and who has coped by completely dissasociating herself mentally from what is going on around her. Thus her indifference to what she saw.
If she does return to the UK, she is going to be inpatient in a mental hospital for a long time before she is even capable of being interviewed by the police, let alone being charged and appearing in court.
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