Tareena Shakil
Tareena Shakil is an United Kingdom citizen, who travelled to Daesh-occupied Syria, and then denounced the Daesh ideology.[1][2] She is the first UK bride of ISIS to be convicted for her association with Daesh.
Shakil describes being covertly encouraged to travel to Syria, and now describes herself as being duped. She took her young son with her when she travelled to Syria, in 2014. She was then confined to a barracks with other women, waiting to be picked as the wife of a Daesh fighter. She found the barracks confinement disillusioning. She described two other young women, who didn't fit in, "disappearing". After some months of confinement she was able to escape, and travel back to the United Kingdom.
UK authorities confined her, upon her return.[1] UK authorities, citing social media posts she made, charged her with "supporting terrorism". She was the first UK woman to be convicted for her travels to Syria.
Russell Dennison, an American convert to Islam who became a Daesh fighter, had maintained a clandestine correspondence with American journalist Trevor Aaronson.[3] From that correspondence Dennison had described a brief marriage to Shakil, but Shakil didn't acknowledge that marriage until she spoke about it in a documentary that premiered in November, 2021.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Poonam Taneja (2021-12-16). "Tareena Shakil: IS mother 'regrets everything' about Syria journey". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2021-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20211216151105/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-59668973. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
- ↑ Poonam Taneja (2021-12-16). "Tareena Shakil: Birmingham mother 'ashamed' of joining IS". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2021-12-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20211216112028/https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-birmingham-59670376. Retrieved 2021-12-16. "After several months in Syria, Ms Shakil says the brutal reality of life under IS became apparent and she escaped back to the UK. She was arrested when she landed at Heathrow Airport and later jailed for six years."
- ↑ Trevor Aaronson (2021-11-15). "British wife of American wife of American ISIS fighter Russell Dennison dodges questions about union: In a new documentary, Tareena Shakil, whose marriage to Dennison was first revealed in an Intercept podcast, describes her journey to the Islamic State.". The Intercept. Archived from the original on 2021-12-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20211204083257/https://theintercept.com/2021/11/15/tareena-shakil-american-isis/. Retrieved 2021-12-16. "The injury prevented him from being an effective fighter, so in 2014 he settled down in Raqqa and visited a matchmaker in a house filled with dozens of single women waiting to be married. Dennison wanted a Syrian wife, but the ISIS matchmaker preferred to arrange marriages between foreign men and foreign women. He suggested to Dennison a young British woman who’d come to Syria with her 1-year-old son."
