The Islamic State has run a slick media campaign to lure young recruits to its ranks — and the strategy has attracted women as well as men.
On Feb. 17, three teenager girls boarded a plane to Turkey from London and were subsequently smuggled into Syria with hopes of joining the militant group, according to BBC.
Before their departure, Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, may have been in contact with Islamic State recruiter Aqsa Mahmood, a 20-year-old Scotland native who goes by the name Umm Layth (which translates to “Mother of the Lion”).
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For these reasons, she says, Muslim women should support one another in rejecting the “poisonous ideology.”
Read Khan’s full letter on Inspire.
