Leaving the Islamic State - Life back in Germany | DW Documentary

The fact she can joke and laugh about her time in Syria. Withhout the smallest hint of guilt. Shows clearly the lack of personal responsibility she feels. My empathy for Mike is real

The girl doesn't seem to get it, she seems to be playing a heroic role in her movie, all smiles. My respect goes to the father, huge respect.

She is too privileged to return and super lucky to have a kind and warmest father in the world. Majority of us won't get such second chances and good fathers.

An intelligent, caring father who has a moron and insensate for a daughter. I really feel sorry for him.

As a German, I can tell by the way she talks that she obviously isn’t the brightest candle on the cake. So do not expect any remorse. I only felt for her and her children when she was talking about them. But I salute to her father! The guts he had to put himself in danger to save his daughter is beyond imagination.

The German Version is longer with more Details. Her IS-Time-Husband purchased a yazid woman as a slave for 800$ in 'bad condition'. Leonora and the other wifes got the task to get the woman to recover for resell at higher price. The journalist later tried to Interview that now free yazid woman, but she was too traumatized to speak... They followed up on her fate and she is now recovering with her kids in Canada, at least. Just wanted to mention her here as well, as those fates are worth being mentioned.

This dad deserved a better daughter.

my heart breaks for her father, hope he heals from the pain and struggle he went through and that his daughter doesn't create any problems in his life and that he lives a happy life.

My wife is Syrian. I am a Westerner. Knowing what I now know, this woman is no victim, she's a psycopath.

What amazes me is the sense of entitlement all these people have when they realize they messed up and eventually want to come back. Absolutely shocking.

She's not even going to prison??? Unbelievable

It was and is always just about her. She did not even mention the suffering she had caused to her father or the brutality and destruction of life she witnessed in Syria...and that the destruction was made possible because she aided and abetted terrorists. That in that moment, she was no better than the other IS terrorists who beheaded and burnt people alive. Absolutely horrible that she didn't feel an ounce of remorse and never asked for forgiveness.

I'm an Iranian woman, I may not know how it feels like to live under ISIS rule but I know what political Islam does to a society. I just want this to be over. I'm done with Islamism and all its apologists. No ideology and metaphysics is more important that freedom and dignity and life of an individual. I have an I will fight all my life against dogmatism and I hope more people realize this truth before it's too late.

I don’t understand why would someone leave such a loving father and this beautiful peaceful village. This is beyond my understanding 😢

Are you kidding me? SEND HER BACK and don't ever let her back. This is ridiculous.

As a father of two girls I understand the father's agony, but is very hard from the society point of view to forgive this, she has no remorse, she will do it again, sad

The Germans are very trusting (or naive) people to let her back. Isis women did unimaginable punishments on the girls and women captured by militants. When they lose power they can just run home like this and pretend to be changed. I don't believe it, for the sake of all who have been tortured and killed, someone needs to prioritize justice in this crazy world.

She has a wonderful father. She has the privilege of making serious mistakes without fearing the loss of his love and care.

She left as a stupid, impressional girl & came back as an ignorant young woman & mother. Yes, she went through things most of us will never go through. But what her father & the rest of the family went through was just as awful. She's been back in Germany now for several years. I hope some day she'll stop thinking that what she did was "just a mistake" & realize just how bad her decisions were. They were right in getting her somewhere else to live though. I hope the other family members have gotten some kind of help. Mike, you're the epitome of what a Daddy is. And that's the highest compliment I can give a man. I'm so sorry Leonora put you through this. I hope you can find a way to forgive her completely some day. I just don't see her comprehending what you went through. Wishing you all peace in your future.

The German court should not have let her off so easy. How quickly the public becomes indifferent to atrocities.