because she looked especially beautiful. He remarked upon it to his wife, saying there was something different about his daughter.
The night before, she had
asked her sisters to sleep together in one big bed. Aqsa gave a
lingering farewell to her bedridden grandmother, and that's when
Khalida, her mother, knew something was wrong.
Standing in her
daughter's empty bedroom, Khalida told CNN, "There was something about
the way she said 'Khuda Hafiz' (God's Blessings) while taking leave that
day, which made us all wonder. My husband even asked if everything was
OK, and I said she is fine."
Four days later, Aqsa
called her parents back in Scotland, just as she was crossing into Syria
from its border with Turkey. Her parents were left heartbroken and
confused.
Her father says when he
spoke to her about coming home, she said that she would see her family
on Judgment Day and would like to be a martyr.
She has been prolific on
social media, advocating ISIS and Islamic caliphate beliefs, and calling
for attacks to be carried out in Western countries. She posts photos of
AK-47s and exults in ISIS executions. Her recent posting online has
called to follow the example set by "brothers from Woolwich, Texas, and Boston."
Family lawyer Aamer Anwar talked about the family's heartbreak.
"There was nothing they
(Aqsa's parents) could have done different. She was a bedroom radical.
And if this could happen to Aqsa, who had all the life chances, the best
education that money can buy, a family that was moderate, liberal ...
if it could happen to her, somebody who was so intelligent, then it
could happen to any family," Anwar said.
Aqsa is said to be
influenced by watching sermons online and coming in contact with people
through social media that helped her make the trek from Glasgow to
Syria.
Source:CNN
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