TEENAGE TWIN GIRLS FLY TO SYRIA FROM MANCHESTER TO JOIN JIHADIST FIGHTERS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="" class="hero-image" height="349" src="http://mediastorage-lls.bauermedia.co.uk/4a/ce4e6/f2b63/45bfd/13bc3/d6bf8/8c1ff/getty167141067_620x349.jpg?1404717562" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; width: 619px;" width="620" /></span><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -30px 0px 10px -2px; position: relative;"> <span style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(222, 106, 167) 8px 0px 0px 0px, rgb(222, 106, 167) -8px 0px 0px 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-shadow: rgb(222, 106, 167) 8px 0px 0px 0px, rgb(222, 106, 167) -8px 0px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">                                                                                                                                                    </span>TEENAGE TWIN GIRLS FLY TO SYRIA FROM MANCHESTER TO JOIN JIHADIST FIGHTERS</span></span></h1> <div class="in-brief" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 106, 167); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(222, 106, 167); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 6px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: -10px; padding: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal;">THE DEBRIEF:</strong> IT'S BELIEVED THAT THE GIRLS ARE FOLLOWING THEIR BROTHER OUT THERE AND WILL EITHER BE MARRIED OFF TO FIGHTERS OR BE TRAINED TO BECOME SUICIDE BOMBERS…</span></div> </div> <section class="clearfix" id="addthis-top" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="addthis-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 20px; width: 325px;"> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-weight: 500; margin: 4px 12px 0px 0px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Share This</span></span></h3> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="addthis_button_facebook" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_twitter" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone_share" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_pinterest_share" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_email" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact" href="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></a></span></div> </div> </section><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two teenage twin sisters from Manchester are being searched for by police who believe them to have fled the country to join their brother in the fight against government forces in Syria.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 16-year-old girls crept out of their home in the middle of the night and flew from Manchester International airport to Istanbul in Turkey. Their parents awoke at 8am to find them missing. The 'extremely religious' pair called relatives to say that they had reached Syria; it is believed that they are there to join ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) a terrorist organisation that has just declared itself a caliphate – <a href="http://www.thedebrief.co.uk/wp-admin/%20http:/www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/05/islamic-state-leader-muslims-caliphate-video-abu-bakr-baghdadi" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a Muslim state run by a caliph, who is, in this case, terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – in Syria and Iraq</a>. They are believed to be following their brother, who recently left to become a jihadist fighter in Syria. At present, up to 1,500 Britons might have travelled to Syria to fight, one Cardiff resident recently posting a video on social media encouraging other young people to go out there and join him. </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The girls wouldn't be fighting alongside their brother, though, as ISIS are an ultra-conservative group that, a bit like Al-Qaeda, don't believe in equal rights for women. So the police suspect that the girls would likely be used as wives for jihadists. However, they are also considering a possibility that the girls are being trained to be suicide bombers.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A police source <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2682120/Teenage-twin-sisters-Manchester-crept-bedrooms-middle-night-flew-join-Isis-Syria.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told the Daily Mail</a>: 'We’ve seized their computers and not found any videos or statements of intent, but are not ruling anything out.' </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mohammed Shafiq, head of Muslim group the Ramadhan Foundation, said that the girls' parents – who are 'moderate' Muslims – were shocked: 'I've spoken to the mosque where the family worship and others in the community where they live and people are saying they are a decent family. We know they have gone to follow their brother, but they are putting themselves in danger and I'm sure that the moment they arrive in such a savage country they will regret it.'</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable for Greater Manchester police, who also sits on a counter-terrorism committee, warned earlier this week that young women as much as boys would be 'brainwashed' into joining terrorists abroad: 'We’ve got some information about girls trying to get to Syria and some we believe may have gone out there on the idea of being a jihad bride. So there are a number of absolutely perverted messages, which can brainwash impressionable young people, and parents are feeling desperate about this.'</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 65px; margin-right: 65px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A spokesperson for the police, who are tracking the girls down said, about this particular case: 'The family are very worried. We don't know exactly where they are but their parents are obviously very keen to have them returned home.'</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

TEENAGE TWIN GIRLS FLY TO SYRIA FROM MANCHESTER TO JOIN JIHADIST FIGHTERS

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I No Longer Want To Be Lesbian

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="itemFullText"> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dear Taiwo,</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I believe I have to speak out so that I can get help. I have been a lesbian for about 12 years and I know that it is high time I stopped. I was innocently initiated into it by my cousin’s friend.</span></div> <center style="height: 0px; margin: auto; overflow: hidden; width: auto;"> <div style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: left;"> </div> <div id="ebzNative"> </div> </center> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My cousin who just got married and resides in the city needed my help. She was in her first trimester and her husband needs to travel out of the country, my aunt asked me to stay with her because there was no one else available,  also because I had just finished my Senior Secondary School examinations and I had nothing doing.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I gladly went to the city, because she was my favourite cousin and I know that I would really enjoy myself with her. I never knew destiny had something else in stock for me. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When I arrived at her house, I met a friend of hers who was already helping her before I came. I later learnt that she arrived from Italy few days before I came in from the village. When I saw the situation on ground, I saw that instead of helping my cousin, she was more or less adding to her burden.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She would seat and wait for her to make food, she couldn’t  help tidy the house and she was always smoking and drinking alcohol. I made up my mind to help my cousin and that was what I did. I really couldn’t say if the fact that I was hard working as she claimed actually endeared me to her as she said or the fact that she found me attractive as she later said.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It all began one day when my cousin went to work, her friend called me into her room and told me she liked the fact that I was hard working and also that my skin was fair even without the use of any bleaching cream.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She started stroking my arm. Initially, I thought nothing of it, but when it turned into a caress, I made to leave the room. She was stronger and she said I should calm down as I will enjoy what she wanted to teach me.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I wasn’t stupid enough not to know about sex, I was 16, but I was naïve, I didn’t know anything about homosexuality or lesbianism. In fact, I was a virgin. She moved her hand gradually from my arm and cupped my breast and fondled my nipples. I became aroused. I really couldn’t describe the feeling then, but I can say now that I know better.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While she was at it, although, I enjoyed what I felt, but inside of me, I knew something was not right. I told her that, and then she asked if I had a boyfriend. I told her I was a virgin. She replied that what she was about to teach me will allow me to enjoy sexual pleasures without getting pregnant.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That was how it all started and she warned me not to tell my cousin she would not like it. She also made me realise that my sister got herself knocked up by a man who might probably be enjoying himself with another woman where he was.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She made me see the bad side of men, I had no choice than to tow her line and believe her because even my own father didn’t help matters, as he always maltreated my mother and was irresponsible. She would give me gifts and I would sneak into her room at night. Eventually, I moved into her room and we began our affairs without inhibition.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My cousin didn’t know that anything was going on, she only said it once that my relationship with her friend was more cordial, she liked it that way because it made things easier at home.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Without realising it, I became addicted to making love with my cousin’s friend, in fact, without knowing it; she deflowered me in the heat of passion one night. She thought me how to give her pleasure and she also did same to me.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the initial stage, I didn’t really hate boys, I still had male admirers, but whenever my cousin’s friend saw me with any of the boys in the locality, she gets very angry. Sometimes, she would offer me expensive gifts. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We were into each other so much that I didn’t go home to see my mother when she fell ill. I got admission into the Polytechnic and she more or less footed all my bills. By this time, she had rented her own apartment and she used to travel to Italy to bring in clothes, shoes and accessories for sale.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was one of the best dressed in school, courtesy my cousins friend and gradually she began to introduce me to some of her other friends. I also got connected with girls like me in school. I am pretty, so I was never shot of admirers; in fact a lot of them courted me with money and other goodies.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the time I finished my Ordinary National Diploma (OND), my mother had started asking me to bring a suitor home. She didn’t know that I was into women. During my one year attachment, she took me to Italy with her, and unfortunately, I was introduced to hard drugs.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the time I went back to school for my Higher National Diploma (HND), I have become a big girl and into a lot of vices. My mother and cousin and even my siblings wanted to know the source of my wealth, but I never told them.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I have finished school and I am into business now, all courtesy of my contacts and network. Sincerely, I am living well. Being the first child of my family, my mother especially is on my neck to bring home a man and get married. The unfortunate thing, however, is that such is the last thing on my mind. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My refusal to bring a man home, is equally delaying my sisters marriage. The turnaround for me however was what happened to a friend and mate of mine few weeks ago. Two of them, had a quarrel over a trivial issue and they stabbed themselves and bled to death. My cousin’s friend who also introduced me to the sexual preference has also become a shadow of herself.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Plus the fact that my mother weeps every time she sees me. I really desire to have a changed lifestyle, but I don’t know how to. I can’t open up publicly about my life style because I already have a name. Please, if you know how I can get help, I will really appreciate it</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anonymous.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Culled from Tribune Newspaper)</span></b></span></div> </div> <div class="itemContentFooter" style="border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 16px 0px 4px; padding: 4px; text-align: left;"> Please, scroll down to give your comment/advice here. 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I No Longer Want To Be Lesbian

Dear Taiwo, I believe I have to speak out so that I can get help. I have been a lesbian for about 12 years and I know that it is high t...

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