article_snippet: Amira Abase, in her uniform for Bethnal Green Academy in East London show a teenage girl enjoying life in modern Britain before joining ISIS to become a ‘jihadi bride’.
article_snippet: Amira Abase is not the first Western girl to join Islamic State.
article_snippet: Another friend said: ‘We suspect Another friend joined ISIS because it was exciting thing to do; a way of rebelling.
article_snippet: clique’ of non-Muslim friends, and mixed instead with two other Muslim girls in the same school year group: Kadiza and Shamima, who, of course, are now with Amira Abase in Syria.
article_snippet: Amira Abase old school friends said Her old school friends were shocked when Amira Abase sent Her old school friends a video link claiming that Israelis were deliberately burning Palestinian children.
article_snippet: two Muslim friends were overheard using derogatory terms for non-Muslim girls, calling one a ‘slag’ and others
article_snippet: kafir’ (an Arabic term for non-believer).
article_snippet: We now know that one of those girls, Shamima, used Amira Abase Twitter account to contact a former medical student, 20-year-old Aqsa Mahmood, who left Glasgow last year to join ISIS and marry a jihadist.
article_snippet: Shamima was following 70 other ISIS terrorists on Twitter, too, many of whom, like Aqsa, used a messaging programme called Surespot.
article_snippet: Friends suspect that Amira and the other girls were in touch with Aqsa and other ISIS recruiters via Amira and the other girls mobile phones or home computers since before Christmas.
article_snippet: Amira is portrayed by police and the school as naïve and vulnerable,’ said one of Amira friends.
article_snippet: Police were called to Bethnal Green Academy in December after a friend of Amira’s, a Muslim girl of 15 who has not been named, disappeared to Syria.
article_snippet: Police talked to Amira and Amira two new friends, but concluded Police were not being groomed by ISIS online recruiters.
article_snippet: By the time the police came, Amira had isolated Amira from non-Muslim pupils.
article_snippet: I am surprised the police did not discover Amira was already fascinated with the Islamic State and people like Jihadi John.
article_snippet: At midnight, her family reported Amira missing and were desperately messaging Amira school friends to see if Amira was with her family.
article_snippet: Amira told girls in school that Amira agreed with what the Islamic State was doing in Syria.