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I don’t think this is a case of “what about her human rights?” I think it goes deeper than that.

We are approaching Spring/Summer and the end of the school year. In the next few months there is likely to be another 15 year old white girl from the Home Counties who hops on a ferry to France with a teacher or sports coach she has fallen in love with. They will be picked up within a fortnight, he will be charged with grooming, she will retain her love and promise to wait and we will have no difficulty seeing that she has been groomed, and criticise the grubby man for abusing his position. The police will support her to understand that what has happened to her was wrong and eventually she will abandon him.

Interestingly a footballer has just been released after grooming a besotted fan very much in love with him. Again we have no difficulty seeing this.

ISIS is an evil organisation inflicting cruel and horrific treatment on people. So why are we as the general public unable to think that this young 15 year old girl has been groomed by them? Certainly we know that they would have the capability to do this and worse, so why are we unwilling or unable to consider that she is as much a victim as the white girls so often reported about? It seems that we are blaming her for their evil deeds rather than looking at her as an individual.