Posted on 10/11/2014 10:30:38 AM PDT by grundle
Today in predictable news:
The teenage girls who abandoned their families in Austria to become jihadis for ISIS feel they’ve made a terrible mistake by joining the barbaric lifestyle and they want to come home.
Samra Kesinovic, 17, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, are believed to be married, pregnant and living in the Islamic State-controlled city of Raqqa in northern Syria, Central European News reports.
Evidently, the move didn’t work out as the pair had hoped:
The change of heart is a much different tune than the note they left behind for their parents when they fled back in April, which read: “Don’t look for us. We will serve Allah — and we will die for him.”
Kesinovic and Selimovic grew up in Vienna, where they became accustomed to talking to whomever they wanted, saying whatever they pleased and wearing whatever clothes they liked. They did not have to live a life being controlled by people telling them what they can and cannot do.
I can’t quite blame the girls here. If they were 30, this would be a different story: In that case, they should be expected to deal with the consequences of their actions. But they’re not. They’re teenagers — too young to drink, to buy cigarettes, to own property, to join the military, and to vote. We have an age of majority for a good reason.
As I have noted before, totalitarianism is sadly attractive to the bored and the disaffected, and, as anybody who has either been a teenager or spent time around one knows, there are few people more bored and disaffected than they. At its root, this story is merely an extremely dramatic version of the age-old running-away-from-home-to-be-with-my-older-boyfriend tale. Except, that is, that the boyfriend doesn’t just have a motorcycle and an attitude, he has a rocket launcher and a death wish.
Sadly, it seems possible that the girls will not be able to return. Per the New York Post:
“The main problem is about people coming back to Austria,” said Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck. “Once they leave, it is almost impossible.”
This is tricky, certainly. Still, I was a little irritated by the implication in a preceding line:
Now Austrian media are reporting that Kesinovic and Selimovic have said enough is enough and want to return to their families, according to CEN.
They have contacted their loved ones and told them they are sick of living with the Islamic State jihadis, but they also said they don’t feel they can flee from their unwanted new life because too many people now associate them with ISIS.
Austria has its problems. But the challenge the girls face is not so much that their fellow countrymen will judge them harshly if they return as that they have both thrown in their lots with a cabal of psychotic killers who would happily execute them in broad daylight if they so much as inquired as to how they could get out of Raqqah. I daresay that, if they were to get back to Vienna, they’d get some odd looks on the street. Fair enough. But, however judgmental their fellow countrymen might be, they would be unlikely to execute them for apostasy. Really, anybody who is laboring under the impression that the biggest potential drawback to shacking up with ISIS is that they might lose their golf club membership if it doesn’t work out doesn’t grasp who they are dealing with here. Which, of course, is precisely how the pair got themselves into this situation in the first instance.
Well I’m sure Obama will get them residency in the US and a job with the DNC
Stupid hurts don’t it?
Just for clarification and to help protect you, make sure you don’t say the were Austrailian by mistake. I did that yesterday and am still getting slammered for it. LOL!
Well do they speak Australian or do they speak Austrian?
They won’t be able to ‘flee’ anywhere & live to tell about it
What, they don’t like multiple temporary marriages with smelly goat-herders?
Racists!
Bored and idle looking for excitement with just one disenchanted friend can ruin or end a young life. It's a shame but it happens everyday.
Look on the bright side girls, you’re going to wind up with two terrorist children soon. Lots of celebrating to be done...
Sometimes you just can’t fix stupid.
But what if they’re planning to get into America and attack as infiltrators. Hope that’s not the case. Plus, why do women want to join a group that well, is so unliberal?
Another problem is that what if the change of heart is not real and they go back to Austria and happily blow themselves up to die for allah and kill some infidels in the process? Although my guess is that they’ve had enough being raped serving their satanic god.
Embrace the suck, kids.
They are not Austrian. They are Muslims with Austrian passports.
Just like the Roach motel: getting in is easy; getting out is impossible.
Exactly, judging by the last names, there parents are Bosnian infiltrators, that got accepted by the increasingly stupid West.
Sure little girls, just close your eyes, click your heels three times and say over and over again, there’s no place like home....
their parents
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