These Western women left their home countries to join ISIS. Why did they do it?

By A Mystery Man Writer

Canadian Kimberly Polman was in a ‘terrible place’ when she met an ISIS member online. American Hoda Muthana feels that she was ‘brainwashed’ on social media. And Shamima Begum, from the U.K., says she wanted to help people in Syria.

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