Shamima Begum is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants to the U.K. In 2015, when news of the Islamic State (ISIS) first reached Great Britain, Begum — then aged 15 – knew where she most wanted to be. Inspired by tales of Islamic State fighters decapitating Infidels, she immediately set out with two classmates from school to join the paradise on earth being created by her Muslim soul mates in the Islamic State. She later told a British journalist that she had no qualms or doubts about that practice of decapitating enemies; it was a matter, she said, “of Islam.”
