Thursday 14 February 2019
British teenage Isis girl wants to come home but without remorse
So Shamima Begum, now 19 and heavily pregnant from one of her Isis lovers, wants to go home to mummy and family after four years living in the so-called Islamic caliphate in Syria. First of all it has taken her four years to realise that she has had enough of all the killings and beheadings going on around her. She said she wasn't fazed when she saw her first decapitated head in a bin. And second, has she shown any remorse or regret by joining up with Isis which has been responsible for thousands of murders and brutalising communities across great swathes of Syria and Iraq? No she is not sorry at all. But she would like to come home. Presumably because her Isis protectors have been driven from Syria. Whether she shows remorse or not she will be arrested as soon as she lands and be taken off into the custody of the Metropolitan Police for interrogation and probably would face charges of having joined a terrorist organisation. Her lawyer is already saying we should be nice to her because she is a "victim". Now I don't know what sort of twisted legal logic can justify the word "victim" because she chose, along with two other schoolmates, to leave their families in 2015 and head off for the murderous mayhem being orchestrated by Isis. They can't have been unaware of what was going on unless they never read the newspapers or watched TV or engaged in social media. Everyone in the universe knew what Isis stood for. If only in her interview with my brilliant Times colleague Anthony Loyd she had said she was truly sorry and wanted everyone to forgive her for being so stupid. Then perhaps there might be a little more sympathy for her. But not an ounce of regret. I've no idea how she will get home, perhaps a benefactor will buy her a ticket. But she will not get a warm reception when she lands. The people I feel most sorry for are the Kurdish fighters who fought Isis so courageously and are now lumbered with hundreds of prisoners and their families and don't know what to do with them. Send Shamima home and let her face the music.
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