article_snippet: Amira Abase's father, Hussen Abase, told lawmakers at a hearing of the Home Affairs Select Committee that he had no idea he daughter was planning to go or that his daughter might have been radicalized.
article_snippet: Sahima Begum, the older sister of Shamima Begum, said his daughter sister had been into "normal teenage things," like watching "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," reading and playing games on his daughter phone.
article_snippet: There was nothing to indicate his daughter was radicalized, his daughter said.
article_snippet: Fahmida Aziz, first cousin of Kadiza Sultana, said that if the family had spotted any signs of radicalization, "the family would have been very effective in stepping in and querying" that thinking.