Our children are not monsters , argues mom of the ISIS fighter
BBC talked with one young British woman who was recently contacted by ISIS recruiters. She preferred not to use her name, but she did talk about what first got her interested in groups others might view as radical. It was the news about three teenage girls, gifted students in east London who slipped away in February to join ISIS. "Why are they going?" she asked herself. "I guess that sparked a sort of curiosity." She started tweeting stories about the three girls. She thinks that ISIS recruiters found her Snapchat account in her Twitter bio. "It wasn't really as cliché as people think it was. It wasn't a sort of 'Hey, come join us!'" she notes. "It was more of a, "Hey sister, how are you doin'?' ... It's like a conversation with a friend. It's like a normal thing." When the recruitment became more intense, she worried most about what joining a radical group would mean for her commitment to soccer. ...