By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--July 7, 2015
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Two of the three east London schoolgirls who fled to join Islamic State in Syria have married men approved for them by the terrorist group, their families have told the Guardian. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, fled in February from Britain after deceiving their parents and siblings. Two of the teenagers have been allowed to tell their families that they have been married and are living in the war-torn country.Yeah, it's creepy - and if you're a parent, it's terrifying. But, if you're thinking ISIS pedophiles are a bunch of harsh taskmasters who don't value the opinions of their inbound child brides, you're wrong. The girls are, apparently, given a choice when selecting their new owners.
The schoolgirls say that they have been separated and have been living apart for several weeks, in and around Raqqa, Syria – an Isis stronghold. The two schoolgirls have been living with the men whom they married in a ceremony approved by Isis authorities. The two schoolgirls are understood to have been given an effective “catalogue” of men deemed suitable by Isis for marriage. They then made their picks from those presented to them. The teenagers who married are believed to have been wed to older men, in their 20s.
Told of the minute’s silence across Britain in memory of the victims, she simply said: ‘Looooool’. And when the reporter said that some Muslim leaders were condemning the attack, she again replied ‘Looool’. She appeared sceptical when asked if she agreed the tourists were innocent, replying simply: ‘research’, adding later, ‘like read about it.’ Her comments came hours before IS again revelled in their brutality, releasing a video showing the execution of 25 Syrian soldiers in the historic city of Palmyra by gunmen, some as young as 13. Abase was only 15 when she and fellow GCSE students Shamima Begum, 16, and Kadiza Sultana, 15, ran away from home in February.I could go on and on about how sad this is. I could talk about the horrific (and probably short) life these girls have chosen. I could talk about how we live in a world where you can't blithely ignore what your kids are doing on the internet. Instead, I'll just say this: This is the ideology for which the left is desperate to apologize and make excuses. This is what they say we need to "understand." These are the people whose motives we need to "examine" and whose grievances we need to "address." This is what Democrats try to equivocate with Christianity. It's what they seek to coddle. These are the people who - if you dare to criticize their barbaric, stone-age, existence - will snicker as their liberal American sympathizers label you a racist. This is (Sunni vs Shia aside) the same psychotic ideology embraced by Iran - a country with whom we're supposed to strike a nuclear deal. It has to stop.
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