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Shamima Begum, Who Joined the Islamic State, Has “No Regrets” But Wants to Come Home (Part 2)

Feb 21, 2019 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Social services would also certainly step in to consider whether her child should be removed to protect him or her from radicalisation.

In an interview with the Times, Ms Begum, who married an IS fighter, showed little remorse for her involvement with the terror group and said she was not fazed by seeing “beheaded heads” in bins.

“I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago,” she said.

No, four years later, she’s not “that same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl,” but a silly little and morally moronic 19-year-old adult who saw the Islamic State from within for four years, and apparently did not object to anything she experienced. She was not fazed by the decapitations she witnessed, nor by the heads piled high in bins. She summed up her four years with ISIS:

“I don’t regret coming here.”

However, she said that after the “shock” of losing two children to illness while living in Syria, she was scared her unborn baby would also die if she stayed in the refugee camp to which she fled last month.

She said: “I’ll do anything required just to be able to come home and live quietly with my child.

Ms Begum said life in the one-time IS stronghold of Raqqa had lived up to her expectations: “The life that they show on the propaganda videos – it’s a normal life.

“Every now and then there are bombs and stuff. But other than that…”

Ah, yes, that “normal life” that “lived up to her expectations.” If it were a Yelp review, she’d give the Islamic State five stars. “Met or exceeded expectations.”

But she said she felt the IS “caliphate” was at an end.

“I don’t have high hopes. They are just getting smaller and smaller,” she said. “And there is so much oppression and corruption going on that I don’t really think they deserve victory.”

So she doesn’t have “high hopes” that her beloved Islamic State can hold on: the territory it controls is “just getting smaller and smaller.” Sad. But perhaps Allah wanted it this way, for she suggests that those now ruling IS “don’t really deserve victory.” Not because they have committed thousands of murders of innocents — that doesn’t bother her — but because there is “much oppression and corruption.” By “oppression” Shamima Begum means the threats ISIS, now desperate, has to use to keep its fighters, and their families, from running away, and by “corruption” she means those ISIS members who have taken possession of property left behind by fleeing Syrians, or who have pocketed bribes by those who want to be allowed to flee the Islamic State’s territory.

Ms Begum’s family have appealed for the teenager to be shown mercy.

Her brother-in-law Mohammed Rahman, 36, told the Times: “She was so young – I don’t think she had the life experience to make those decisions.”

“I think the hope would be that she would be allowed to return home, as long as the government is satisfied she has turned her back on their ideology,” he said.

But everything Shamima Begum has said shows she is still in thrall to, and enthralled by, that ideology. Has Mr. Rahman forgotten that she has “no regrets” and found living in IS, where heads were regularly chopped off, as  perfectly “normal”? Keep that in mind: “The life they show on the propaganda videos — it’s a normal life.”

Ms Begum was one of three schoolgirls, along with Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, from Bethnal Green Academy in east London, who left the UK for Syria in February 2015.

She escaped from Baghuz – IS’s last territory in eastern Syria – two weeks ago.

Her husband surrendered to a group of Syrian fighters as they left, and she is now one of 39,000 people in a camp in northern Syria.

Diane Foley – whose son James, an American journalist, was kidnapped and beheaded by IS seven years ago – said that the group’s supporters did not “necessarily” have to be treated as criminals and deserved a trial.”

She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that she felt “very strongly that Isis continues to be a threat,” adding: “It’s very difficult to discern how much of a threat they continue to be when they want to return home. “We have to be very careful and very vigilant with any of these folks who have been involved in so many human rights atrocities.”

Diane Foley is far too generous: she apparently feels that because Shamima was “only” a supporter of ISIS, and not a fighter, she “did not necessarily have to be treated as a criminal and deserved a trial.” Here is where she differs, alas, from Sajid Javid, who believes that if you leave your country and go off to join the Islamic State, knowing full well of its atrocities, and if, further, you remain loyal to the Islamic State for four years, that is until it totally disintegrates,  and you have “no regrets” for doing so, and want to return to the U.K. only in order to guarantee the safe delivery of your baby, then you should be treated not just as a criminal, but as someone who must not be allowed back into the country you so obviously hate.

But what if Shamima “promises” to undergo a “deradicalisation” program in order to return to the U.K. “War is deceit,” claimed Muhammad, and of course Shamima Begum will say whatever she needs to, to prove that her “deradicalisation” has worked. For four years she was an enthusiastic supporter of, and accomplice to, the mass murder of Yazidis, Christians, and Shia Muslims at the hands of Islamic State fighters like her husband. She still claims the sight of severed heads in a basket left her indifferent. She has “no regrets.” Does such a person deserve to be admitted back into the U.K.? Or to keep her citizenship?

Shamima Begum became a traitor to her own country the moment she left to join the Islamic State. She had four long years to reconsider her enthusiasm for the Islamic State, when every sort of atrocity was being committed by its fighters, including her husband. She never did. Even now she wants to be readmitted to the U.K. not because of any change of heart, but only because she is pregnant and, having lost two children to illness in the Islamic State, wants to ensure that her third child survive, thanks to the National Health Service that British Infidels fund.

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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 10:16 am

    Nazis also had no regrets concerning their crimes, but they received 20 year sentences or the death penalty.

    She reminds me of the female guards at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Stutthof, Majdanek and Ravensbrück.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:34 pm

      +1

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 10:49 am

    Imagine the year is 1945.

    A woman born and raised in the US, and who had left the United States to voluntarily help the Nazis has returned to the United States wearing a full Nazi uniform of the SS-Helferinnen …

    What is wrong with the picture of an SS-Helferinn returning to the US in full SS uniform?

    Isn’t wearing the uniform of ISIS similar?

  3. Renate says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 10:53 am

    Sounds like if ISIS were still strong even in any small part of Syria, she’d still want to be there, but since they aren’t, she wants to “come home”.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:37 pm

      *Exactly*, Renate.

    • libertyORdeath says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 5:14 pm

      My thoughts exactly, opportunism at its worst

  4. paul says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 11:06 am

    Mortimer, you hit the nail on the head! we’ll see how the left and groups like CAIR defend the terrorist and say she should be able to come back to America. NO!!!

  5. R Russell says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 11:16 am

    It looks like the ‘non-practicing’ Muslim Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, ‘is softening his stance’ about this terrorist.
    I never doubted that she would be allowed back into the UK.

    The UK government which allows Muslim extremists to enter the UK to preach hatred and jihad at mosques would be acting out of character to keep this woman out.
    This is the dhimmi government who wouldn’t allow Aasia Bibi to enter the UK for fear of Muslim unrest at home and at British embassies overseas.
    I wonder why they weren’t afraid of Muslim unrest if they kept this woman out?
    I would guess that it was because they never intended in keeping her out in the first place.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:40 pm

      I hope you are wrong.

    • IanB says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 5:56 am

      I think you are spot on with that analysis. These were my thoughts exactly. Takiyya in action.

  6. Arthur says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    what did her husband do in ISIS? how many people did he kill, rape, behead?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 2:42 pm

      Good question, Arthur.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 2:30 pm

    Shamima Begum keeps changing her story line. One time she say she has “No regrets’” another time she said that” I was young and naive” Something is wrong, very wrong .

    Nevertheless , regarding the second of her two completely contrasting statements , it may be the result of the j ISIS jihadists have rather new sly way of recruiting and exploiting young women for the jihad for Islam. Therefore, it might be that this “new sly way” swayed that young Muslim female Shamima Begum, who lived in England the embark on a fools quest to travel to Syria to join ISIS. It seems that ,while with the ISIS jihadists, she might have had , and that is “might”, have has a reality check in Syria by first observation of the Islamic “state ” as then understood that ISIS is totally evil and dangerous .

    Now she has said that at that time she traveled to Syria to join ISIS , she was 15 years old and said the she was young and naïve.” Well that might has been so .Foe example , a number of young naive and impressionable girls of and in the West had been duped, beguiled and deceived by the enticement of the ISIS propaganda machine on internet. For it gave the false offer to those young gullible girls who were willing and able to leave the West and travel to the lands controlled by ISIS “a grand place to live that gives meaning to life.” Those girls who are taken by the lying words of ISIS and travel to ISIS controlled lands Do soon have a very harsh reality check when they discover, to their horror, that all the promises made by ISIS were bogus. In other words all the promise of ISIS are nothing but total falsehood and lies. The deceitful and lying wolfs of ISIS do awful and terrible harms to those girls they deceive, beguile and betray.
    Therefore, the old poem of wisdom should be repeated.

    “Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon you way. Never trust a stranger –friend; No one knows how it will end. As your pretty, so be wise; Wolves may lurk in every guise. Handsome they may be, and kind, gay, or charming never mind ! Now , as then , ‘tis simple truth- the sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth !”

  8. gravenimage says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 2:47 pm

    Shamima Begum, Who Joined the Islamic State, Has “No Regrets” But Wants to Come Home (Part 2)
    …………………….

    She joined the *most horrific terror state of our times*–worse, even, than Afghanistan under the Taliban or Somalia under Al-Shebaab–which is saying a great deal.

    That she does not regret doing so is enough in and of itself to keep her from returning to the civilized world.

  9. Crusades Were Right says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 3:59 pm

    I have a bad feeling about this. My prediction? She’ll eventually be readmitted to the UK, given a whopping payout for being deprived of her “rights” as a UK citizen, become a darling of MSM, and then a Labour MP and spokesperson for human rights.

    [Kinda meant the above as a joke (partly), but the more I think about it…]

  10. Charlie Martel says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    She was a sociopath long before she went to Syria. To render her safe would take hundreds of hours of psychiatric treatment. Who on earth would consider that a fair allocation of resources when innocent children go hungry every day in the UK.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 21, 2019 at 4:13 pm

      I’m not sure there is enough psychiatric treatment possible that would render Shamina Begum safe…

  11. Crusades Were Right says

    Feb 21, 2019 at 5:05 pm

    Has anyone suggested to her that she might swap the Islamic garb for Western clothing, disavow Islam, and beg for mercy?

    Sorry, I forgot I was talking about a member of the “best of people”!

    • CRUSADER says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 8:47 pm

      Crusades ARE Right !!!
      ++++++++++++++++++

  12. Save Europe says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 12:31 am

    Perhaps the authorities should monitor the entire family as her father took her to an Anjem Choudry gathering, which the killer of Lee Rigby also attended.

    She’s a POS and Muslim Nazi. Don’t let her return!!!

  13. Gus says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 5:22 am

    Why is the notion of her “repatriation” even an option? Articles such as this should be obsolete.

  14. Terra Nova says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 7:02 am

    And the taxpayer can pay for it all , the psychiatric treatments, the housing, the food, medical bills, again.
    She had it all before. Good luck UK, I will read it in the paper when you collapse economically and when you collapse mentally too. Good luck, but it does not matter, your doctors bills will be payed, by the government, so by you yourself.

  15. SamB says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 8:58 am

    Ah shame she’s so young, all she want to do is radicalize her son in a Birmingham or London mosque. He needs to to be a future terrorizer of infidels, Javid let her them in!!

  16. Meturaf says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 9:58 am

    A possible sleeper agent to come back and be mobilized when needed.

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