A
British woman who traveled to Syria with her five children and lived
among Islamic State fighters has said it was not her "cup of tea".
Speaking
to Britain's Channel 4 News, Shukee Begum detailed her living
arrangement in Syria, which involved living in a crowded safe-house in
Raqqa — a city currently under the occupation of the Islamic State, also
known as ISIS or ISIL.
"You've got hundreds of families living in
one hall, sharing perhaps one or two bathrooms between them, one or two
kitchens between them," she said.
"There was a gangster kind of
mentality among single women there. Violent talk — talking about war,
killing. They would sit together and huddle around their laptops and
watch ISIS videos together and discuss them and everything. It was just
not my cup of tea."
Ms Begum, 33, went to Syria to search for her husband Jamal al-Harith, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.
Mr al-Harith, a British citizen, is believed to have left the U.K. to join ISIL in 2014.
Ms
Begum told the broadcaster she does not support ISIL and instead
traveled to the country to look for her husband to try and persuade him
to return home.
"I was seeing on the news as this point that
ISIS was going from bad to worse… So I decided that I was going to try
and speak some sense into him," she said.
Ms Begum, a law graduate, flew her family to Turkey before crossing the border into Syria
AGENCY Reports
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