translated from Spanish: The couple seeking the perfect life in the Islamic State

Shamima Begum says he joined the self-styled State Islamic (EI) in their quest for the perfect family life.
It was in Raqqa, shortly after his arrival in Syria four years ago, he married the Dutch jihadist Yago Riedijk.
She had 15 years and 23 at that time. If they were in the United Kingdom, the country where he was born Begum, he would be accused of rape.
Riedijk sits opposite me in a plastic chair yellow, now 27 years old, in a room of interviews at a Kurdish detention centre. His guards have just removed the handcuffs.
It asks me if I see Shamima, you to tell her that he loves her and to be “patient”.
“I hope that soon we are together again and things go well, hopefully”, sighs, though it seems unlikely to happen soon.
During the next hour, he painted a contradictory picture of a family life isolated from the outside, and a vortex of terror outside.
Getty ImagesShamima Begum fled at age 15 from his home in East London to join State Islamico.dice that he kept the two separate halves and that his spouse, despite his public statements to the contrary, was unaware of the crimes of the Islamic State.
“I kept it in a protective shell. I do not gave no information about what was happening outside. The problems facing the dangers”, explains.
“She was sitting sitting at home while I tried to get ahead. Feeding her, feeding me myself. Trying to keep us out of trouble,”he continues.
“Trying to that we were not killed by the secret services”, it ends.
Dreams of a Caliphate when I met Shamima Begum, said that it had joined with Islamic State in search of family life that is closer to the perfection.
“My family is not going to help to get married in the United Kingdom and form that showed the family life in Islamic State was very nice,” he says.
“They showed it as the perfect family life, said that they would take care of you and would take care of your family. And that was true. At the beginning I took care of me and my family, but things changed then,”he explained.
Getty ImagesEl 12% of foreigners who joined us in Syria and Iraq were women. His dream of Caliphate was quickly undone.
Riedijk, it was a world of beheaded corpses, imprisonment and torture.
When I asked him if he knew of the yazidis, the religious sect whose members EI enslaved and killed, said to me: “I learned that a Dutchman was a slave”.
“That is the most close to be a slave.” I heard that you had some 40 years,”he recalls.
Begum said that had seen a head human in a container; your spouse explained that it was in a bag on top of a pile of dead of us prisoners who wore military-style uniforms.
And he attended the stoning of a woman accused of “fornication”.
“In fact never I witnessed a beheading”, it rectifies.
“In fact, I have witnessed a stoning only once. And I saw bodies of people who were executed, but not the execution itself.”
BBC(Cifras x1.000).” In reality, she not was stoned to death’, fix. “He stopped and ran, and after that they (their leaders) told the types that they threw stones ‘To stop throwing them'”.
“It is not permitted to throw stones when someone gets up and runs away. So we stop throwing stones and she escaped. After that, let it quiet”.
“I made a big mistake,” Begum said that his spouse “was not really a fighter”, but it was to fight for EI in Kobane and was injured.
He returned to fighting in Aleppo.
He reflects on the experience: “I made a big mistake. I’ve pulled years of my life. It wasn’t my life. Luckily, I got not hurt directly to other people. But I joined and supported a group as well. It is something that is not acceptable.”
He said that he had just used his weapon.
BBCYago Riedijk was born in the Netherlands. The Kurds have him under arrest in Siria.Ahora says that it wants to return to Holland with his spouse and her newborn son.
“I’d like to return to my own country, and now I understand the privileges that I lived. The privilege of living there as a citizen”, thinks.
“And, of course, I understand that many people have a problem with what I did and understand it completely”, adds.
“I have to take responsibility for what I did, to serve my sentence. But hope to return to a normal life and raise a family,”continues.
For now, Begum and Riedijk have neither passport nor control of their own destiny.
They gave up both when they joined Islamic State and is unlikely to see the return of some of them in the short term.
Begum is in the field of detention of women, not far from her imprisoned spouse.
Kurdish officials say that there are no plans to make the couple meets.
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Original source in Spanish