Former Isis bride from London says racism fuelled radicalisation

Tuesday 07th November 2017 16:30 EST
 

A Harrow woman who married a senior Isis figure said that the only reason she had children was to raise them to become killers.

Mother-of-four Tania Georgelas, 33, added that the racism she was subjected to as a Londoner led to her becoming radicalised.

She said: “I've had these children for one reason only, and that was so they could serve god as Muslims, as mujahideen.”

In a newspaper interview she said she had “faced a lot of racism” during her upbringing, which fuelled her hatred for the West.

One of five children born in London to a British-Bangladeshi couple, she later travelled to Syria with her husband so their family could become terrorists.

She met her husband, John Georgelas, an American-born convert to Islam, through the website and the couple fell in love over discussions of jihad, marrying in 2004.

After settling in her husband's home town of Plano, Texas, the couple had four children, and travelled by bus with them to Syria in 2013.

They set up home in the abandoned villa of a Syrian general in the town of A’zaz but within months Ms Georgelas wanted to return home as her children became sick.

With the help of her husband's parents she made her way back to Plano, where she now lives. She has since been granted a divorce and has returned to online dating, meeting Craig, an IT worker, within 24 hours on the site.

But she said she remains in love with her ex-husband, known in Isis as Yahya al-Bahrumi. She claimed she has turned her back on ISIS and that she is reformed.


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