SUMMARY: In her new book “Girls & Sex,” Peggy Orenstein suggests that we re-think sexual intimacy, in both education and our everyday lives. While she acknowledges the importance of the national debate on campus sexual assault, Orenstein also urges us to broaden our definition of "sex" and talk candidly about what happens after consent -- arguing that if we don't guide our teenagers, pop culture will.
SUMMARY: In London, three seemingly normal and high-achieving teenage girls recently left their homes to join the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, leaving their families to grapple for answers. Their story is the subject of a new multimedia report by The New York Times. Judy Woodruff talks to New York Times video journalist Mona El-Naggar and Steven Simon of Dartmouth College.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Last week on the program, we heard about the Islamic State’s practice of institutionalized sexual slavery of non-Muslim women.
Tonight, we focus on another New York Times report about three seemingly normal and high-performing teenage girls who willingly left their homes in Great Britain to join the terrorist group.
We begin with a video excerpt that shows the family of one of the girls grappling for answers.
WOMAN: This is Kadiza’s room. Very neat and tidy. She is very organized. But she wasn’t sleeping here on the night that she left.
NARRATOR: This was Kadiza Sultana’s home in London before she left to join ISIS. Her sister has been devastated ever since Kadiza disappeared.
WOMAN: The yellow jumper, that is her. So, she selected all these to put in — we went to Bangladesh. That was in 2009.
WOMAN: How did she get the money?
WOMAN: We asked the question. We asked it of the police, and they haven’t got it for us, really.
NARRATOR: Kadiza was 16 and a straight-A student at this school. One morning, she told her mother she was leaving to study. But she never returned. The next time the family saw Kadiza was on the news.
WOMAN: International hunt for three young girls believed to be on their way to join ISIS.
MAN: At Gatwick, they boarded a Turkish Airlines plane for Istanbul.
WOMAN: Police are out in Turkey trying to find them.
NARRATOR:The girls weren’t even old enough to drive, but they traveled thousands of miles to Syria and handed themselves over to ISIS.
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