NI is a great example of how people can change. Republicans, who were once described as terrorists, are now chomping at the bit waiting to get back to Stormont and taking over the reins of power.
Naomi,
I'm sure you remember Jahadi John. He revelled in beheading people.
There was a murderous gang in Belfast, the Shankill Butchers, who did the same.
It's really just a matter of scale.
Ladybirder,
We're talking about a slip of a girl who had her head turned by glib recruiters.
When she arrived in the promised land she was used as something like a brood mare.
I wouldn't condemn her.
There is no simple answer to the problems that the clash of Islam and the west present.
And in Ireland there's a million Protestants who wouldn't like the solution that would please Republicans.
No easy answer here, either.
Had the Caliphate survived it might have attracted religious zealots, a bit like Israel in its early years, who would strive to build a new land.
It wouldn't have been our idea of a promised land, but each to their own.