

On the other, she’s a young believer who joined a brutal terrorist army that was committing heinous atrocities – there were allegations that she sewed suicide vests and was part of the brutal morality police, which she denies – and expressed no regrets about her decision even four years later, when she was discovered at a refugee camp. With Begum, he has his work cut out: on the one hand, she was a teenager when she left, following a trusted friend who encouraged her to distrust everything the western media told her about what was really happening, a 15-year-old essentially trafficked for marriage to an Isis fighter. He’s also a careful storyteller who can craft a tale while staying true to its complexity.

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Is Shamima Begum a victim or a monster? She will cop to neither
