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BBCLeaving Isis: Is redemption possible?In 2014, Tareena Shakil, then 24, made a decision that would change her life forever. She secretly left the UK, telling her family she was on holiday, and travelled with her young son to Syria to join the Islamic State group. Within months she found herself in the heart of the extremist stronghold and later fled to Turkey before returning to the UK, where she was arrested and became one of the first British women to be convicted for membership of Isis and encouraging terrorism. Shakil was sentenced to six years in prison but was released after serving half her term. In...
2026-03-0630 minDocumentariesLeaving Isis: Is redemption possible?In 2014, Tareena Shakil, then 24, made a decision that would change her life forever. She secretly left the UK, telling her family she was on holiday, and travelled with her young son to Syria to join the Islamic State group. Within months she found herself in the heart of the extremist stronghold and later fled to Turkey before returning to the UK, where she was arrested and became one of the first British women to be convicted for membership of Isis and encouraging terrorism. Shakil was sentenced to six years in prison but was released after serving half her term. In...
2026-03-0630 min
The Documentary PodcastLeaving Isis: Is redemption possible?In 2014, Tareena Shakil, then 24, made a decision that would change her life forever. She secretly left the UK, telling her family she was on holiday, and travelled with her young son to Syria to join the Islamic State group. Within months she found herself in the heart of the extremist stronghold and later fled to Turkey before returning to the UK, where she was arrested and became one of the first British women to be convicted for membership of Isis and encouraging terrorism. Shakil was sentenced to six years in prison but was released after serving half her term...
2026-03-0626 min
Divorced Muslims: A Second ChanceSeason 3 - Episode 5 - TareenaIn this episode, we are joined by Sister Tareena. Tareena runs a social media page on Tiktok with the handle: @thatgirl.tamtam. Tareena’s page is about healing people giving them hope. Tareena offers one to one advice for sisters who want to discuss their problems. If any sister wants to contact her you can email her: info.work2021@yahoo.comTareena shares her personal journey through divorce, the challenges she faced, and her insights on the marriage search as a divorcee. She discusses the emotional impact of her divorce, the importance of self-discovery, and the societal ex...
2026-03-0451 min
The Education Gadfly Show#958: Louisiana’s NAEP gains and the power of a strong curriculum, with John WhiteOn this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, John White, former Louisiana superintendent of education and current CEO of Great Minds PBC, joins David and Amber to discuss the reforms he led in Louisiana and their role in the state’s significant NAEP gains. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber highlights a study on the expansion of “transitional kindergarten” in Michigan and its impact on early learning access and socioeconomic gaps.Recommended content: Kevin Mahnken, “New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery,” Thomas B. Fordham Institute (January 29, 2025).Emily Freitag, “A bold state move to improve...
2025-02-2635 min
The Jordan Harbinger Show1040: Tareena Shakil | An ISIS Recruit's Journey and Escape Part TwoHow does ISIS radicalize Westerners? Here, Tareena Shakil, who joined and escaped the group, reveals the manipulation behind her own recruitment. [Pt. 2/2 — find part 1 here!]
What We Discuss:
Tareena Shakil, a British woman, ran away to join ISIS in Syria in 2014 after experiencing domestic abuse and being radicalized online.
While in Syria, Tareena realized ISIS was not what she expected and decided to escape across the border to Turkey with her young son.
Tareena was arrested upon return to the UK and served three years in prison for joining ISIS. She was the first British woman to...
2024-08-291h 01
The Jordan Harbinger Show1039: Tareena Shakil | An ISIS Recruit's Journey and Escape Part OneHow does ISIS radicalize Westerners? Here, Tareena Shakil, who joined and escaped the group, reveals the manipulation behind her own recruitment. [Pt. 1/2]
What We Discuss:
Tareena Shakil, a British woman, traveled to Syria with her young son and joined ISIS in 2014 at age 24 after being groomed online for about six weeks.
Tareena's decision to join ISIS was influenced by a combination of factors, including online radicalization, a desire to escape an abusive relationship, and a misguided attempt at religious devotion.
While in Syria, Tareena quickly realized she had made a mistake and wanted to leave. She...
2024-08-271h 19
Proverbs with Daisy MaskellTareena Shakil - Escaping ISISIn 2014, at the height of the ISIS reign of terror, Tareena Shakil travelled to Turkey before fleeing, on foot, to Syria. The decision culminated years of turmoil, and months of online grooming, for the "Towie Jihadi" as the newspapers named her, who later became the first British woman to be jailed for joining the terrorist caliphate.How and why did a girl from Birmingham, aware of the atrocities being committed by ISIS, run away to join them? How did she flee back to the UK alive? And what is she doing now that her subsequent prison sentence...
2023-04-031h 00Proverbs with Daisy MaskellTareena Shakil - Escaping ISISIn 2014, at the height of the ISIS reign of terror, Tareena Shakil travelled to Turkey before fleeing, on foot, to Syria. The decision culminated years of turmoil, and months of online grooming, for the "Towie Jihadi" as the newspapers named her, who later became the first British woman to be jailed for joining the terrorist caliphate.How and why did a girl from Birmingham, aware of the atrocities being committed by ISIS, run away to join them? How did she flee back to the UK alive? And what is she doing now that her subsequent prison sentence...
2023-04-031h 03
What You Need To KnowIS runaway believes Shamima Begum deserves redemptionDo you think ISIS recruits like Shamima Begum deserve a second chance?Well, former IS member Tareena Shakil who also fled Britain to join the Islamic State in Syria, was later allowed to return home to the UK, unlike Shamima.Tareena Shakil, was the first woman to be prosecuted in the UK for joining a terror group. She was sentenced to six years behind bars after running away to Syria with her child, when she was 24. So why did Tareena deserve another shot? And how does Tareena’s case differ from Shamima’s?
2023-03-2011 min
Conversations with My Mind: The Learning PodcastOn Second Chances and Life After Joining ISIS with Tareena Shakil | S2 Ep2If you live in the UK, you probably have come across Tareena Shakil on the news or maybe on her ITV documentary. She was amongst the women groomed by ISIS and she made a decision to take her one-year-old son and travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. What she also did was quickly change her mind and risk her life to return to the UK. She got arrested here, did her time in prison and went through the deradicalisation programme.ISIS and its recruits has been a scary topic for me, something unknown, something I...
2022-03-101h 16
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2020-11-1207 minHamari KahaniyanStart From youI do believe everything or anything strt 1st from self if we analyse we experience it's Us who allow things happen.
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