A 20-year-old British woman, nicknamed the 'bride of IS', has written a disturbing recruitment guide to help young girls find love among jihadist fighters.
Aqsa Mahmood left a comfortable, upper-middle-class life in Scotland last year, according to her parents, and is now living in Syria.
According to the Express, she was privately educated in Glasgow.
Aqsa writes in her blog that girls should bring decent clothes, shoes and make up.
She also writes that single women should marry as soon as possible and that staying without a man was not easy.
A counter extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation said that it was a dangerous propaganda.
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