[BBC] Community leaders in the home town of a teenager reportedly involved in an Iraq suicide kaboom linked to Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
have spoken of their shock.
Talha Asmal's family say he was groomed online, and Downing Street described the case as "deeply concerning".
But a pupil at Asmal's school told the BBC he believed the sixth former had been persuaded to join IS by someone in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Asmal, 17, travelled to Syria in March with a convicted terrorist's brother.
Hassan Munshi, who is also 17 and from the same town, is still in Syria.His brother was detained for two years in 2008 after being convicted of making a record of information likely to be used for terrorist purposes.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, a friend of the Asmal family said he believed the teenager must have come under "some kind of peer pressure".
Zubair Patel said the idea that a teenager would "go out and cross borders and go into another country and do whatever" solely because of online grooming "doesn't fit".
Iqbal Bhana, a Home Office adviser on hate crimes, said if "we found out there was someone planting these kind of ideas into the minds of young people, converting them... we would want to confront and challenge them".