This is sad, dangerous and life-threatening, for the very young people involved. Pure religio-political zealotry and a mis-reading of the Qur’an, from what others have said.

Anti-terror police arrest teenager in Cardiff

bbc.com

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“Aseel Muthana, 17, left Britain in February to join his older brother Nasser in the country and says he has no plans to return.

“In an online conversation with a reporter from BBC Wales’ Week In Week Out programme, he described seeing “martyrs” to militant group Isis’s cause and said he would be “willing to die” for the cause.

He said: “Jihad is obligatory.” More