
IS brides explain why they joined the 'Caliphate'
What could possibly persuade women from Germany, Indonesia or Russia to leave peaceful nations for a new life in a pariah 'state' at war with all around and with streets soaked in the blood of its victims?For Difansa Rachmani, it seems, the answer is health care.A mother-of-three at the time of her immigration to the so called Islamic State in the summer of 2015 - two months after 'the Caliphate' was declared - she told Sky News she made the journey because she'd been promised surgery.She said she had also been promised help with her autistic three-year-old who could not walk.Difansa chose, she said, to "put to one side" the atrocities she knew about from the internet.Video:British IS recruiter 'stuck in Raqqa'On her arrival she was indeed treated for her condition. As was her son who was ...