I'm Not a Monster season 2

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, a 15-year-old East London girl left for Syria with two of her friends to live in the so-called Caliphate. After Shamima Begum was captured in a refugee camp in 2019, the British public was enraged by her attitude that she’d done nothing wrong and for downplaying the violence committed by ISIS. Journalist Josh Baker traveled to Syria to interview the evasive prisoner, then retraced her steps to fact check her story - that she went to the Caliphate to practice fundamentalism, not to become an ISIS soldier. BBC Sounds and Radio 5 Live present season two of “I’m Not a Monster: The Shamima Begum Story.” Josh Baker explores war ravaged Syria to discover the network which smuggled her into ISIS territory, examine her life as a soldier's bride in the Caliphate, and confirm whether or not the British teen was an active combatant against Coalition forces. The host repeatedly risks his safety to answer the simple question: should Shamima be believed?

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0:00.0	For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at patreon.com slash partners in crime media.
0:06.5	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders On.
0:13.5	Crime Riders On is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime, pop
0:27.3	culture, other podcasts, and on this episode, a 15 year old girl leaves Britain for Syria
0:33.3	to join the ISIS Caliphate.
0:35.9	Was she seeking an Islamist utopia or was she a terrorist?
0:39.5	We'll review season 2 of I'm Not A Monster, the Shemima Begum Story.
0:45.1	Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist and host of these
0:50.3	are their stories podcast, my husband and love of my life, Kevin Flynn.
0:53.9	Hi, Kevin.
0:54.9	Hello, Rebecca.
0:55.9	Thank you for the rustle, stover, heart candy box that you gave me for Valentine's
1:00.4	Day.
1:01.4	I know that everyone is on pins and needles about that.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.8	Yeah.
1:06.8	It was not a Whitman sampler just as good, just as good.
1:10.9	Also a heart shaped box, just as good.
1:13.5	There was not an orange cream one in the box, which I super appreciated.
1:16.5	For $4.99, I thought.
1:18.4	There is a however, a strawberry cream one in the box, which I am avoiding.
1:21.6	That's kind of gross.
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