Attractive men are used as ‘eye candy’ to lure young British Muslim girls into adopting extremist ideology, a former woman extremist has claimed.The girl named as Ayesha, a false name to protect her identity, told the BBC that she was taught to see Britain as “our enemy” but now rejects that ideology.
She was speaking in reference to three london schoolgirls who recently left the UK, apparently to join Islamic State militants in Syria. Ayesha told the BBC’s Newsnight programme: “As a teenager I wanted to get my piece of eye candy and I’d take a good look, and all the YouTube videos, for some reason, they (the militants) were all really, really attractive.
“It was glamorous in the sense it was like ‘oh wow, I can get someone who practises the same religion as me, who’s not necessarily from my ethnicity and that’s exciting’.”