These people are brainwashed.
French police arrested her at the airport when she tried to get on a plane to Syria. They also arrested a 20-year-old man who reportedly recruiting her and paying for her plane ticket. And according to France’s interior minister, the girl’s family had no idea what she was up to.
The terrorist group ISIS has been rather notorious for recruiting Westerners, and a recent U.S. intelligence estimate says about a dozen Americans have joined the cause. (There’s nothing in the report about this teenage girl, however, that she was going to join ISIS.)
