Isis 'not my cup of tea' says British woman who went to Syria

October 15, 2015 19:11

A 33-year-old British Muslim woman who fled to Syria with her five children has said that the dreaded Islamic State terrorist group was not her "cup of tea" and that she wanted to return home to Britain.

Shukee Begum, from Manchester, said she went into the territory held by the jihadist group, also known by its acronym ISIS, only in an attempt to convince her husband, Jamal al-Harith -'" a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who had joined the terror group -- to return with her.

"There was a gangster kind of mentality among single women there. Violent talk -'" talking about war, killing. They would sit together and huddle around their laptops and watch ISIS videos together and discuss them and everything. It was just not my cup of tea," she told Channel 4 News, from somewhere in Syria.

"I would love to go back to the UK. The UK is my home. I grew up there, my friends are there, my family are there. That is where I consider to be home but I am just not sure at the moment of the track record of the current government if the UK is somewhere I can come back to and achieve justice," she said.

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