Those remarks though were different from her reflections on the beheading videos back in 2019, when she was interviewed by Quentin Sommerville, the BBC’s Middle East correspondent.
He asked her: “One of the reasons you joined IS is because you watched some beheading videos, is that right?”
In response, Begum, who lost three of the children she had given birth to while living in the Islamic State, said: “Not just the beheading videos, the videos that show families and stuff in the park. The good life that they can provide for you. Not just the fighting videos, but yeah the fighting videos as well I guess.”
This piece of footage was played back to Begum, who denied being “aware of the fighting and brutality of ISIS before you left”. Her denial was brutally summed up by Tim Loughton, a Tory MP working on the Home Affairs Select Committee, who said on the broadcast: “I don’t believe her and no reasonable person would.
“However much you’re a teenager watching the Kardashians at home and doing a load of stuff on social media nobody — particularly three intelligent students from East London — could have been absolutely oblivious to the horrors being waged by Daesh in Syria at that time.”
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