"Last year she abandoned a university course to join fanatical Islamic State jihadists fighting in Syria.
Since
then she has tweeted a series of radical messages, including a call for
others to copy the shocking murder of soldier Lee Rigby, the Boston
Marathon bombing and the massacre at the Fort Hood US Army base in
Texas."
(Remember Fort Hood-the "workplace violence"...)
This is an important story because it shows first of all (and once again) that poverty has nothing to do with jihad.
Also, it shows that assimilation hasn't really worked that well for certain populations even under the best, most prosperous and seemingly swimming conditions. So, calls for more integration education are largely bullocks. This girl was born and raised in the West but the call to jihad was more powerful than the life she was born and raised into in Scotland.
What are we to make of this?
We cannot be "shocked".
We must understand that this is an ideological and religious battle.