Tunisian beach massacre makes ex London school girl, now Jihadi bride, laugh out loud
London: Amira Abase, 16, one of the three London schoolgirls who escaped to join ISIS, wrote a text message to a reporter working undercover for the Mail on Sunday.
Abul Taher, the reporter, pretended to be a 16-year-old girl wanting to head to Syria to fight for ISIS.
He said: ‘Sis it’s going mental here. They held a minute silence on Tunisia. All they talk about is the bomber.
To which Abase replied ‘looool’ (laugh out loud).
In addition, when Thaer said, “Yeah, they say this gunman has killed 30 British tourists”, Abase replied, “Wow damn that’s a lot.”
Other text exchanged between the two show that Abase does miss certain aspects of life in the UK including her family and the ability to go to Westfield shopping centre.
But she added: ‘You miss it but u get over it because u leave everything for the sake of Allah and Allah replaces all that with something better.’
Abase left the UK in February with Shamima Begum, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16.
Two of three teenage girls who travelled from Britain to Syria sparking criticism of the police response married ISIS fighters, the lawyer for their families said. Sultana, Begum and Abase left their homes in February and flew to Istanbul before crossing into Syria.
Two of the trio have been in touch with their families to say they have married men in ceremonies approved by ISIS and are living in and around the Syrian city of Raqqa, the group's stronghold, the Guardian reported.
The newspaper did not identify which two of the three had got married at the families' request. Tasnime Akunjee, who represents the families, told the Guardian that the news had "caused a lot of distress."
"It entrenches their lives in Syria, rather than in Britain. It erodes significantly hopes that they will come back," he added. The paper reported that the two teenagers were given a "catalogue" of men to choose from and that their husbands were in their 20s. All three of the girls attended the same school in east London, Bethnal Green Academy.
They are believed to have followed a classmate who left a few months previously. Four other girls from the same school have been given a court order banning them from traveling abroad over fears they too could go to Syria.
The girls' families have accused police of failing to communicate information, which could have alerted them to the risk that their daughters would travel to Syria. Scotland Yard believes around 600 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq since the conflict began though about half are believed to have returned to Britain.
