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oberliner

(58,724 posts) Thu Nov 26, 2015, 09:50 AM Nov 2015

Isis teenage 'poster girl' Samra Kesinovic 'beaten to death' as she tried to flee the group [View all]

A teenage girl who ran away from her Vienna home to join Isis in Syria has reportedly been beaten to death by the group after trying to escape.

Samra Kesinovic, 17, travelled to Syria last year with her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15.

The two became a 'poster girl' for Isis, also known as Islamic State, appearing on social media websites in images showing them carrying Kalashnikovs and surrounded by armed men.

But by October that year there were reports quoting friends of the two women saying Ms Kesinovic had been sickened by the killings she witnessed and wanted to come home.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/isis-teenage-poster-girl-samra-kesinovic-beaten-to-death-by-group-as-she-tried-to-flee-killings-a6747801.html

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Isis teenage 'poster girl' Samra Kesinovic 'beaten to death' as she tried to flee the group [View all] oberliner Nov 2015 OP

The Vienna people no longer have to worry about her slipping back in and going postal 951-Riverside Nov 2015 #1

This is the value placed on women, abuse and then a violent death. Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #2

I find it mind boggling that these girls voluntarily entered this kind of life, and LisaL Nov 2015 #3

shows what propaganda can do. riversedge Nov 2015 #4

Teenagers do stupid things edhopper Nov 2015 #5

Not the safest or sanest period of life. Hortensis Nov 2015 #8

Running off to join a terrorist organization that is known for abusing women, was more than stupid FLPanhandle Nov 2015 #11

ISIS's infamy wasn't so widespread in April 2014 muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #13

Their decision making abilities are underdeveloped, as well as the ability to control impulses AZ Progressive Nov 2015 #18

SOME teenagers ".. limited cognitive abilities. " pangaia Nov 2015 #26

Probably the wrong term exboyfil Nov 2015 #28

Oops. hatrack Nov 2015 #6

RIP girls pintobean Nov 2015 #7

you think ISIS is left wing? Octafish Nov 2015 #12

I wasn't talking about ISIS. pintobean Nov 2015 #27

ISIS is extreme religious right wing AZ Progressive Nov 2015 #20

Daesh ARE extreme right-wing. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #22

you don't know what you're talking about. nt TeamPooka Nov 2015 #25

It's actually fairly normal for ISIS to brutally punish transgressing ISIS-members. DetlefK Nov 2015 #9

Where did you get that info from? oberliner Nov 2015 #16

Can't find the specific articles again, but there's this: DetlefK Nov 2015 #21

Interesting oberliner Nov 2015 #24

This aspect of ISIS needs to be loudly publicized. Jim__ Nov 2015 #10

You'd think the headchopping and heart eating would be a major turnoff n/t 951-Riverside Nov 2015 #14

You'd think so - don't forget that little "burning people alive" thing . . . hatrack Nov 2015 #23

So horrible. polly7 Nov 2015 #15

They were originally Bosnian... Imajika Nov 2015 #17

More likely online discussion and videos. Scootaloo Nov 2015 #29

Sad. cyberswede Nov 2015 #19