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A 30 year old Londoner, who goes by the name of Fatima, spent two years in Syria where she was married to an ISIS solider, and returned back to the UK in 2017. The former ISIS bride revealed how she faced years of torment in school for wearing a headscarf, causing her to feel so isolated she turned to extremist beliefs as a form of escape. In an interview with Stylist, Fatima recalled how when she was 11-years-old bullies cornered her in the playground and ripped her headscarf off. She told Stylist: "They backed me into a corner, pulled my headscarf off and grabbed my hair so hard that a whole handful ripped out.

A former ISIS bride has blamed bullying as her reason for joining the Islamic State

“The whole time, they were screaming that I was a Paki b*tch.



“Then they refused to give my headscarf back to me so that I had to walk home with my hair uncovered, which is against my religion.



"When I got back home, my mum was furious, and blamed me for allowing it to happen.”



Fatima added: “Girls who pretended to be my friend one minute would make jokes about my religious father dropping a petrol bomb through their letterbox the next.

Fatima fled to Syria and married an ISIS soldier, but returned back to the UK in 2017

"They were portraying my family as ‘mad Muslim’ cartoon characters to belittle me.”



The former ISIS bride told of how men would grope her and threaten to remove her scarf.



She added: “Men would come up behind me, groping me, threatening to pull off my headscarf and jeering that I would be a slut without it.



Shamima Begum photographed before she joined ISIS