Shamima Begum s radicalisation was our failure to address online extremism and protect our kids International Human Rights Barrister and Associate, Doughty Street Chambers
Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, 15, holds her sister s photo (Photo by Laura Lean - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Regardless of who Shamima Begum is today, the fact that a group of British teenage girls could be groomed online for sex and violence in a faraway land, should be taken as a cautionary tale for us all.
Earlier this month, a 16 year old from Cornwall was sentenced for terrorist offences. He was 13 when he first downloaded a bomb-making manual and went on to become the UK leader of a banned Neo-Nazi terrorist group, the Feuerkrig Division. Like Begum, his story is an extreme example, but the way online disinformation and radicalisation work means they are far from unique.
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