Beyond Today - What do we get wrong about female terrorists?
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Four years ago, at the age of 15, Shamima Begum ran away from home in East London to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Now she’s 19, has just given birth in a refugee camp - and wants to come home. There has been huge interest in the story, but are we missing out on a bigger and more complex picture when it comes to understanding the role of women in IS? In the second of this series on IS we hear from the BBC’s Daniel De Simone about other foiled terrorist plots and the role women played in hatching them. And academics Joana Cooke and Gina Vale tell us what people get wrong about radicalised women.
Producers: Lucy Hancock and Georgia Coan
Mixed by Weidong Lin
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2019.
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