Why many young teenage girls are joining ISIS

chika ebuzor

April 3, 2015 8:19 PM

Psychologists say teenagers are easily captured by the adventure ISIS promises, because of their restless and adventurous teenage minds.

Teenage Girls Join ISIS

In an attempt to explain this disturbing trend Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says "Most of these young men and women have these torn identities — partly in the west, partly in the east. They really don’t have an anchor, they don't have a stable identity. Their identity is torn."

Gerges says he believes this is part of what makes them vulnerable to the "utopian project" promised by the Islamic State and other Salafi Jihadi groups.

Recently three British teens who experts believe crossed the border into Syria, were caught on camera, happy and joyous of the opportunity to go and fight with ISIS. The teen girls who are aged between 15 and 16, left London bound for Turkey. They refused pleas from their families to return home.

Experts say the promise of a free state, is the attraction. Some psychologists explain that teenagers are easily captured by the adventure ISIS promises, because of their restless and adventurous teenage minds.

chika ebuzor