There were many things a young woman could do with rage. But it took an attentive, intact family, living rooms with books, a sensitive school, layers of protection that often didn’t exist around working-class girls from East London, to introduce those ideas. Even when the government got around to employing British Muslim women who had been through precisely this journey, dispatching them to counsel girls who were “vulnerable to radicalisation,” they conceded, as one did in an interview, that there was little to no space for these discussions in British society, no avenue for these angry young
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