ISIS bride Tania Joya: ‘My crime was being an idiot, joining a really bad idea’

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A Radical Life,” which begins streaming Thursday on Discovery+. “That was my mistake but it’s not a crime.”The documentary takes an unfiltered look at Joya’s journey from British schoolgirl to Jihadi bride to single mother living in Texas.

She was born in 1983 to a “culturally Muslim” Bengali-Bangladeshi family, the daughter of an airline employee and a caterer.

Joya experienced racism while growing up in London, she says in the documentary; according to a 2017 Texas Monthly interview, this even included her tormenters using the roof of the family’s car as a toilet.A childhood surgery on a misshapen leg reportedly led to constant worrying about her health, which in turn led to her becoming a more devout Muslim.

As she was mocked in public and scorned by her own family for wearing a full-length jilbab and face-covering veil, she turned to a community of other extreme worshipers — which helped lead to her becoming radicalized after the Sept.