article_snippet: Aqsa Mahmood, 19, left home for university one morning in November 2013 never to return.
article_snippet: Instead of going to classes, she travelled to Syria; last February she married a jihadi fighter, and since then she has become a notorious poster girl for ISIS.
article_snippet: What is so unusual about Aqsa is that she was given every chance in life: privately educated and offered freedoms that many other Muslim girls would envy.
article_snippet: And while most were quick to condemn the Mahmood family for missing the signs of radicalization, 18 months on the Mahmood family remain none the wiser as to what prompted she to run away -- Aqsa's parents had actually warned Aqsa's parents children of the need to avoid extremist websites.
article_snippet: For many, the greatest shock has been young girls like Aqsa wanting to leave behind their Western comforts and freedoms to join ISIS, but why should it be a surprise that young Muslim women are as angry as young Muslim women male counterparts?
article_snippet: Aqsa's family describe ISIS as a "bedroom radical" of the type the British Government has been desperate to combat by trying to shut down websites and social media.