A FORMER private schoolgirl who has fled the UK for Syria to join Jihadi fighters has apparently broken her self-imposed silence to declare she would only return to the UK if it raised the flag of the Islamic State.
Aqsa Mahmood, 20, a former pupil at Craigholme School in the southside of Glasgow, left Scotland last year and married a fighter for the extreme Sunni group.
Mahmood was a prolific user of the micro-blogging site Twitter, on which she sent tweets under the pseudonym Umm Layth before she went off line amid publicity surrounding her activities last week.
Another blog has emerged under the name criticising Prime Minister David Cameron's announcement last week that suspected British-born Jihadists returning from Syria and Iraq would face losing their passports.
The Umm Layth blogger said: "So our answer to our passports being confiscated?
''Biggest joke of this week. The only time we will ever, ever return to those lands, if God wills it, is to raise our flag.
"My allegiance is and will only be to our beloved Ameer, destroyer of the enemies, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and to the Islamic State.
"'This is a war against Islam and it is know (sic) that either 'you're with them or with us'. So pick a side."
The new blog also appeared to take pleasure in the international surprise that somebody from a privileged background like Ms Mahmood would support the militant organisation.
The blogger said: "The media at first used to claim that the ones running away to join the Jihad as being unsuccessful, didn't have a future and [came] from brokedown families etc.
"But that is far from the truth. Most sisters I have come across have been in university studying courses with many promising paths, with big, happy families and friends and everything in the Dunyah to persuade one to stay behind and enjoy the luxury.
''If we had stayed behind, we could have been blessed with it all from a relaxing and comfortable life and lots of money."
Mahmood, of Pollokshields, Glasgow, was described by her parents Khalida and Muzaffar Mahmood, who are horrified at her activities, as a "bedroom radical" when they begged her to return last week.
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