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2014: If you had the chance to escape from your life and, better still, fight for a cause you believe in, would you take it?
The Good Sister
What you need to know before your trail
At seventeen, disenfranchized with her life in London, with a mother too sick to care for her and a father too broken to, Sofia Mounir packs her bags and heads to the only place that makes sense: Raqqa. A place where she can be part of something greater than herself. Where she can help build a new society from the ground up. But what happens when that world isn’t everything you dreamed of? When you realize that other people’s intentions might not be as pure as your own? And what happens when you’re not allowed to leave alive?
Travel Guide
Raqqa, Syria
Syria
How a girl from the UK goes to Syria to fight and then find she can’t go home as once there she is under the control of the fighters there. She becomes married to an Isis Fighter and takes pride in the fact that no one now can touch her.
She is quickly converted and it’s a scarily fast process:
“No other flag means anything. No other flag has anything to say. And here yo can’t escape it. what would get you arrested in Britain is a symbol of pride in Raqqa. This whole city is black, and it is ours.”
She trains with the Al Khansaa Bridgade the most fearsome women in the planet.
Aleppo, Syria
I know about Clocktower Square It is the heart of the khilafa.
Clock Tower Square in Raqqa was where so-called Islamic State carried out countless executions and where British IS terrorist ‘Jihadi John’ was killed in a coalition drone attack.
Gaziantep, Turkey
Every girl in Gaziantep, the face was here and not hears. It was a sort of blindness, Half of them wore head scarves.
The language was alien by the feeling was so familiar, of a city run by its people without interference from above.
Even in September , the sun was strong and relentless.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Good Sister
Destination : Raqqa, Syria Author/Guide: Chris Morgan Jones Departure Time: 2000s
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