A YOUNG mum told her family she was taking her toddler on a beach holiday to Turkey - and fled to Syria to become a martyr with Islamic State, a court heard yesterday.
Tareena Shakil, 26, became obsessed with the terror group and dumped her husband of four years and travelled to join the death cult with her tot.
She was given a home in the ISIS's self-styled capital Raqqa and planned to marry a terrorist fighter and give birth to "Lions" - the next generation of jihadis.
During a four month stay there she dressed her tot in clothes with the ISIS logo and took photos of the child with guns.
The court heard Shakil took pictures of herself and her toddler posing with an AK47 in Syria and messaged saying her tot had learned to say "Allahu Akbar".
She left a letter at home saying, "If you are reading this then I am long gone," and said from Syria she was "sacrificing herself" for her family.
She sent her husband Samim Ali-Nagi back in Birmingham a photo of their 14-months-old child wearing a balaclava and bragged he could say 'allah hu akbar" - the Islamic phrase for "God is great".
She also revealed in social media posts from the ISIS stronghold she intended to die a martyr.
Shakill had told her husband before she left in October 2014 she would meet him again in "jannah" - the martyrs heavenly paradise.
In one telling post from Raqqa two months after she disappeared she wrote:"I can leave but I don't want...I want to die here as a martyr...there are blessings to being a martyr."
But a jury was told after several months in Syria Shakil became disenchanted with the terrorist life and told her husband she was missing him.
She had been unable to find a terrorist husband - and turned down an Italian jihadi because he didn't have enough hair.
In January last year she claimed she had fled the terror group to make her way back to the UK and was held at a detention camp in Turkey.
She flew back to Britain the following month - after giving and interview to the Sun - and was arrested on arrival at Birmingham Airport.
Shakill, from Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffs told police she had been kidnapped in Turkey after falling in love with an Arab called "Ahmed" who took her across the border in to Northern Syria to join ISIS who held her against her will.
But a jury at Birmingham crown court heard she had been radicalised and a series of social media messages she sent from Raqqa proved she was lying and had been a willing volunteer desperate to join the terror organisation.
Shakill is the first British woman to be charged with terrorist offences since returning from Syria.
She denies encouraging acts of terrorism on Twitter in the days before she fled the UK in October 2014 and of being a member of ISIS.
Prosecutor Sean Larkin QC told the court: "In 2014 she was a student living with her husband and son.
In the course of that year, she became more and more interested in extremist Islamic material. She became radicalised.
She left her friends and family and took her young child to Raqqa in Syria – the capital of ISIS territory - and joined ISIS.
She had booked a return flight for herself and child but she was not going to come back,"said Mr Larkin.
Mr Larkin went on to say how she had visited a blog on numerous occasions called “Diary of a Mujahira” which gave tips on how to raise a child to be a future fighter.
He also detailed how she either married or arranged to marry an ISIS mujahideen fighter and was given a house.
He said: “She dressed her toddler in clothing with the ISIS logo. For months, this was her life. She told different people that she was happy – that she loved it – she even said that she wanted to be a martyr."
But the jury heard within a few months Shakill was heading back to the UK - with a false account of her time in Syria.
Mr Larkin said: "In January she left Raqqa and crossed back into Turkey where she was detained for a few weeks. In February 2015, she returned to UK where she was arrested.
"She claimed that she took her child to Turkey for a holiday fully intending to return to UK. When in Turkey she met a young man called Ahmed and she became romantically involved with him.”
But she claimed she and her child had been kidnapped after arranging to meet Ahmed at a point near the Syrian border.
The court heard Shakil made numerous social media posts glorifying IS before she fled to join the group.
The prosecutor said on 2 September 2014, Shakil had posted a tweet to a Twitter account ‘UmmHussainAlBritani’ sayig ‘I wish I was there’.
Shakil flew out to Turkey with her child wearing Western clothing to avoid attracting suspicion.
While in Syria she continued to send messages back to her family and friends and told of her search for a husband amongst the terror cult.
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Wasted beauty

another confused woman.