(February 22, 2019 at 8:10 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Stockholm Syndrome is a justification after the fact-- so if you're kidnapped by ISIS, then start to defend them because you've made an emotional connection with them in that difficult and stressful time, that's you. That doesn't include people hating their lives and deciding that a fresh start in the heart of fundamental Islam is the way to go.
I don't think that always happens. That can happen.
But take Jim Jones for example. Everyone went voluntary at first. But many upon arriving realized he was a nut but were too afraid to challenge him and his armed loyalists.
I think she, like a alot of youth felt disillusioned with the west, thought Isis were the real heros, got there and realized they were nuts.
Just like Jim Jones promised his followers a utopia if they would just support him.
The fact that she said she was willing to come back to America and face prosecution really is not that different than a domestic criminal here turning themselves in and confessing out of guilt.