The manner in which this programme tries to win sympathy for the main characters by pretending they were innocent victims who simply didn't know that ISIS sold women into sexual slavery, murdered Shia Muslims, behead people etc, would be laughable if it was not so disgusting.
For example, in episode 3, one of the recruits objects to a slave market as 'rape', while another attempts to 'rescue' the victim by buying her. Both recruits would have known perfectly well that ISIS behaved this way long before joining ISIS - it's all over the media. Similarly, we are supposed to sympathise with a female doctor who is disgusted by the misogyny and violence of ISIS. Unless she had been living in a cave, she would have known precisely what she was signing up for.
Trying to paint these characters as 'victims' for whom we should feel sorry, is evidently a more 'nuanced' approach. If, that is, you are willing to ignore the plain facts about their behaviour. Coming to terms with the fact that such recruits are wilfully complicit in ISIS' crimes is evidently more than some people can cope with.
For example, in episode 3, one of the recruits objects to a slave market as 'rape', while another attempts to 'rescue' the victim by buying her. Both recruits would have known perfectly well that ISIS behaved this way long before joining ISIS - it's all over the media. Similarly, we are supposed to sympathise with a female doctor who is disgusted by the misogyny and violence of ISIS. Unless she had been living in a cave, she would have known precisely what she was signing up for.
Trying to paint these characters as 'victims' for whom we should feel sorry, is evidently a more 'nuanced' approach. If, that is, you are willing to ignore the plain facts about their behaviour. Coming to terms with the fact that such recruits are wilfully complicit in ISIS' crimes is evidently more than some people can cope with.