daftandbarmy
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I have a few issues with this.
First, what does citizenship by birth in your home country mean if it can be taken away? We can agree with the legal premise for doing it in this case, but what future crime could it become a sanction for under the right (or wrong) circumstances?
Second, it leaves her stateless, which should always be avoided in operations of law.
Third, and I think most compelling: she was a youth. She was 15 when she made her horribly poor decision to do what she did. Teenagers are idiots, and are vulnerable to ideological exploitation, which is what happened with a lot of these cases of young women who traveled to join ISIS and marry fighters. Kids need to be protected, including from themselves.
Many will disagree, but that’s how I see this one. And I’m not at all naive to the reality of what these extremist travelers chose and did.
She's no ordinary kid, apparently:
I know Shamima Begum better than most - we need to stop saying she was some kind of victim: 'Danger tourist' who befriended ISIS bride in prison camp says she 'isn't a dumb kid' - and wonders if she was trying to groom him during time together
A tourist who befriended ISIS bride Shamima Begum has urged people not to treat the jihadi as a victim.
Father-of-four Andrew Drury, 56, is a 'danger tourist' from Surrey who has travelled to destinations including North Korea, Chernobyl and Iraq.
He formed a 'strong friendship' with Begum over the last two years, meeting her first in June 2021 at the al-Roj prison camp in Syria, before he spoke to her via WhatsApp and kept visiting her.
The jihadi bride today lost her bid to strike down the Government's decision to revoke her UK nationality for travelling to join ISIS aged 15.
Mr Drury wrote in The Spectator: 'We need to stop saying that Shamima was some kind of teenage victim.
'Everyone is an individual, responsible to some degree for their own actions.
'She was certainly mature enough to get herself through airports and over the Turkish-Syrian border.
'This isn't a dumb kid.'
Mr Drury last saw Begum in June 2022 and has since wondered if she was trying to groom him during their time together.
He said while he has 'mixed feelings' about her citizenship being revoked the Isis bride has 'shocked' him by saying she was 'over' the death of her children.
I know Shamima Begum - we need to stop saying she was a victim
Father-of-four Andrew Drury, 56, from Surrey, got to know Isis bride Shamima Begum (pictured together) over the last two years after he met her at a prison camp in Syria.
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