Tareena Shakil, From ISIS Recruit to Fashion Blogger – By Hugh Fitzgerald (Front Page Mag) / May 24, 2023
And guess who she thinks the victim is?
Strange things happening every day, as Sister Rosetta Thorpe once sang, and that is especially true when it comes to the bizarre world of Islam. It’s sometimes necessary, in reading these stories of Muslim goings-on, to believe six impossible things before breakfast. That’s how I felt when I read recent news about Tareena Shakil, a Muslim who was living a perfectly normal Muslim life (if such can be said to exist) in the UK when she up and left to join ISIS. Robert Spencer wrote about her briefly here, and more on her trajectory from ISIS recruit to would-be “It girl” — a fashion influencer on social media – can be found here: “From ISIS to It Girl: British woman who joined ISIS becomes fashion influencer,” Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2023:
Tareena Shakil was no innocent young thing when she set off for Syria to join ISIS. She was an adult — 26 years old. Shakil knew exactly what ISIS was all about. She admits that before crossing into Syria, she was aware of ISIS’s brutality and had seen the group’s propaganda videos showing the beheadings of American journalists and British aid workers. “It’s not something I’m happy about now, looking back,” she explains. “But at the time, the only thing I can say is that, you know, I was far from the best version of myself at that time.”
“Far from the best version of myself at that time” – yes, that’s quite an understatement. But now you are a “good version” of yourself, so all should be forgiven.
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