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ISIS bride who says she misunderstood Islam and wants to return to UK was part of rifle-toting morality police

Apr 15, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

Shamima Begum claims: “When I went to Syria, I was just a housewife. I just stayed at home and looked after my kids. I didn’t do anything dangerous. I never made propaganda, I never encouraged people to come to Syria. They don’t have proof that I did anything dangerous.”

But now we learn that she “was witnessed preparing suicide vests for would-be martyrs” and “served in the terror group’s ‘morality police’ and had worked to recruit other impressionable women.” She “was permitted to carry a Kalashnikov rifle while going about her duties as an ‘enforcer,’ imposing the IS laws around dress code.”

“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268).

“Jihadi bride stitched suicide vests: In chilling briefing to Prime Minister, spy chiefs reveal how Shamima Begum served in ISIS’s ‘morality police’ and helped terrorists prepare for attacks,” by Harry Cole, Mail On Sunday, April 14, 2019:

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum stitched suicide bombers into explosive vests, spy chiefs have told Theresa May and Sajid Javid.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that the Prime Minister and Home Secretary have been briefed by the intelligence services about claims that British-born Ms Begum was witnessed preparing suicide vests for would-be martyrs – sewing them on to the bombers so that the devices could not be removed without detonation.

Intelligence sources told this newspaper they have been informed of her chilling role in Syria actively preparing jihadis to take their own lives as Islamic State collapsed.

If the allegations prove to be correct, they will shatter the claim by the teenager from East London that she was nothing more than an IS fighter’s wife after she enlisted with the death cult while still a schoolgirl in 2015.

It is understood the information was gleaned by allied spy agencies – believed to be the CIA and Dutch Military Intelligence – from interrogation of other Western IS converts. It is not known whether Ms Begum was a willing participant in the acts.

Furthermore, sources told The Sunday Telegraph she had served in the terror group’s ‘morality police’ and had worked to recruit other impressionable women.

Sources told the newspaper she was permitted to carry a Kalashnikov rifle while going about her duties as an ‘enforcer,’ imposing the IS laws around dress code.

After being found by journalists in a camp in northern Syria in February following the collapse of IS’s grip on the region, Ms Begum, now 19, insisted she had never ‘done anything dangerous’ during her time with the terror group and begged to be allowed back into Britain. But Mr Javid branded her a danger to the UK and revoked her citizenship.

She said: ‘When I went to Syria, I was just a housewife. I just stayed at home and looked after my kids. I didn’t do anything dangerous. I never made propaganda, I never encouraged people to come to Syria. They don’t have proof that I did anything dangerous.’…

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  1. Uriah Sheep says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 9:06 am

    Now we do have the proof…

    • mortimer says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 9:17 am

      Yes, proof of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. Syria and Iraq have the right to prosecute them for breaking their national laws. It probably won’t happen, but my deepest desire is for such war criminals to stand before the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes.

      This would show Muslim finally that Islam CANNOT BE PRACTICED in the modern world and thus, Islam is NOT ETERNAL and PERFECT, but flawed in logic and in ethics.

    • Joss says

      Apr 16, 2019 at 6:50 am

      But, Uriah, will our UK politicos, with their heads in thr sand, listen, or even care?

  2. C.Bradley says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 9:08 am

    She is using “Taqiyya”to protect Islam.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 9:21 am

      … lying to protect her own neck. I doubt she cares about the reputation of Islam anymore. That is clearly in ruins around the world. Muslims know that no one respects Islam now, not even the Leftards … not after ISIS.

      There was ZERO protest by Muslims against ISIS … there was not even ONE SINGLE MASS RALLY to protest ISIS by Muslims.

      Ergo … ISIS = PURE ISLAM.

      • Russell says

        Apr 15, 2019 at 10:16 am

        Spot On!! When the Manchester bombings took place no Muslim country sent condolences or even condemned it.No flags at half mast in any Muslim country.

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Apr 15, 2019 at 12:49 pm

        Mortimer, I wish you were right about no one respecting Islam any more. And certainly no one should at this point. But what I see in the mainstream media tells me that the politically correct still hold Islam (and Muslims) in high esteem. Same is true with most European politicians, bureaucrats, & police departments.

        The “Office of Diversity & Inclusion” at the local university here is still quite busy hiring Muslims and admitting them as undergrads & med students — clearly in preference to all others. The place is now swarming with bearded, military-age Muslim men. (Nothing to worry about there, I’m sure!) I get the feeling that this organ of Islam-friendly political correctness is the most cherished part of this once-great university, as far as the idiots in charge are concerned.

        Respect for Islam & Muslims is still alive & well among many millions of PC sheeple, as far as I can tell. Ask Ben Affleck if his views have changed at all in the last two years, since he dressed down Bill Maher & Sam Harris with his angry, self-righteous, profoundly ignorant raving. The PC idiots of the Regressive Left seem determined to ride the “Islam Is Peace” Train until it goes right off the rails.

      • windrush48 says

        Apr 16, 2019 at 7:16 am

        If she were ‘male’ …. upon death, she would immediately go to “paradise” and be welcomed by 72 ‘virgins’ …….. since she is no more that ‘property’ where does that leave her when she dies …. does she ‘wink out of existence’, or is she one of the 72?

  3. Paul says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 9:22 am

    The purpose of stitching them into the suicide vest was to prevent them taking it off. If they did it went bang and they had 72 virgins or boys like scattered pearls to play with.

    There was a photo sequence of a kid at an Israeli check point who lost faith and revealed he had a vest. General confusion as to help the kid you had to risk your life for someone who had intended to kill you or others.

    They are evil and we don’t need her or her friends in this country.

    Paul

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 9:25 am

    Where is ‘lebel’ telling us that Shamima Begum did not practice real, authentic Islam, but that she ‘distorted’ her religion?

    Even the heads of Al Azhar University and Saudi sheikhs said that the IDEOLOGY of ISIS was IDENTICAL to classical Sunnite teachings !

    So, lebel, how did Shamima Begum stray or err from Islam?

    Please quote a SHEIKH who agrees with you.

  5. Ashley says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 9:37 am

    And yet…

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47934721

    • Yokel says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 12:24 pm

      Legal aid is only for the “destitute” it seems. Most people, especially anyone with any savings, is expected to fund all their own legal action or get it on “no win, no fee” terms.

      As has been discussed here many a time, this is just lawfare. It will soak up the taxpayer’s £(GBP) for as long as we have an Islamophile government.

      • Deborah Edwards says

        Apr 23, 2019 at 2:55 am

        Go to Petitions on the UK gov website I have set up Stop Shamima Begin getting Legal Aid ..it’s disgraceful and please share

  6. Ashley says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 9:56 am

    Oh, boy…

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/shamima-begum-isis-syria-morality-police-suicide-belts-a8869016.html

  7. Ashley says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 10:17 am

    And now she has secured legal representation…

    https://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm?blog_id=68269

    • Yokel says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 12:49 pm

      And to use my grandmother’s turn of phrase, that lawyer is “a particularly nasty piece of work”. He has been around the family for years, seems a fully fledged lawyer jihadi and is from his current activities unrepentant.

      I was going to post so many links I would be quarantined in moderation for ever! Instead, just try this search link and click on as many results as you have stomach for:
      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Tasnime+Akunjee%22&t=ffsb&ia=web
      It being duckduckgo, you will probably get the same set of results as I.

  8. elee says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 10:24 am

    Where did we fail her? Did we not provide adequately for her in the richest society that has ever existed? Is there an alienist in the house? Did her parents pump her full of this s**t? Somebody write a book about this kind of occurrences, it’s pretty incomprehensible with mere facts and logic. So now do we take her back and try to deprogram her, or leave her out there to spawn a dozen more poisonous little martyrs?

  9. Rosie Barnes says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 10:41 am

    As others have noted, she (or more likely, her lawyers) asked for – and has been given legal aid.

    Legal aid: ‘financial assistance provided by the taxpayer’. I know of a disabled person denied legal aid to fight welfare cuts, and as the Guardian reported: “The total number of disabled people granted legal aid in welfare cases has plummeted from 29,801 in 2011-12 to just 308 in 2016-17, cutting some of the most vulnerable people in society adrift without expert advice in often highly complex and distressing cases.”

    Where are our priorities?

    • Yokel says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 12:53 pm

      Rosie, your having to ask the question tells us what the answer is!

      • Rosie Barnes says

        Apr 15, 2019 at 4:34 pm

        It was a rhetorical question, and you are right, I know exactly what the answer is! Britain has gone so far down the political correctness/multiculturalism/diversity road there is no way back and stories like this will just multiply.

  10. Tom says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 10:42 am

    This proof of lies and deceit should be enough for the west to step back and reconsider its policies regarding allowing those who were involved with ISIS or other Islamic terror groups back into our countries.

    If they were in the area of terror groups they were either part of their reign of terror or victims who were oppressed and killed for not being muslim. There is no grey area in such conditions.

    She, and most others who are attempting to get back to their country of origin after being under ISIS control is muslim and most likely encouraged or sympathized with the terrorists. The victims in this would be the non muslims who suffered under the reign of ISIS terror.

    Letting terrorists return to our country is like allowing the fox into the henhouse expecting it to act like a chicken and not the predator that it really is.

    We must stand up to politicians who want to allow such people back amongst us by voting NO to their re-election.

  11. James Lincoln says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 11:10 am

    “she was permitted to carry a Kalashnikov rifle while going about her duties as an ‘enforcer’”

    From Wikipedia, and I trust this particular citation: “A Kalashnikov rifle is any one of a series of automatic rifles based on the original design of Mikhail Kalashnikov.”

    Most likely an AK-47.

    • I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 12:44 pm

      It is
      An AK-47 is the most preferred weapon among the terrorists

  12. EVILSPEAK says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 11:12 am

    Oh great, Miss Piggy’s back with another round of Taqiya. The sooner she’s reunited with her three kids the better .

  13. FYI says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 12:27 pm

    “She misunderstood islam”

    She must have mistakenly thought it was a Religion of PEACE dedicated to aiding orphans,the homeless and endangered women as islam couldn’t possibly have anything to do with terror.

    That must be her misunderstanding….

  14. Naram-Sin says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    BEGUM: Okay, okay. I made a few suicide vests, but I never actually pushed the button on one. And yes, I occasionally shot a few infidels in the back of the head during the day, but I never cut anyone’s head off. I only filmed beheadings, the men were responsible for the actual cutting; I had to cook the food. You “don’t have proof that I did anything dangerous.” So, people should be more understanding and let me back into the infidel infested hellhole you call home and convert to Islam. In the mean time, give me welfare and maybe I’ll take a class on integrating back into society. I promise not harm any of the apes and pigs walking around London these days; maybe just stab them a few times so they know there place. I’m not a threat to anyone. So, let me back in and give me an apartment! You dirty racists.

  15. Crusades Were Right says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 2:30 pm

    Revoking UK citizenship isn’t enough. There are literally BILLIONS of people in the world who don’t have UK citizenship – and they didn’t do anything wrong. Haw Haw would have been laughing (no pun intended) if he had only got “de-Britification” for punishment!

  16. TKF says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 3:35 pm

    If this evil Muslima is ever allowed into a Western country, they are crazier than she is.

  17. Jack Cade says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    She’s a traitor and needs to be punished as a traitor. She can come to the UK to be executedor stay in the shithole she went to.

    • James C says

      Apr 15, 2019 at 10:44 pm

      The zeal with which some idiots in the UK befriend sand-Nazi thugs, while refusing asylum to persecuted Christians, is a disgrace. The greater the criminal, the more kindness they are shown.

  18. James Hilborn says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 5:52 pm

    It’s the man’s fault. Classic Romans defense.

  19. Halal Bacon says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    The UK has set such low standards with regards to shitslam, so why is anyone surprised?

  20. Max says

    Apr 15, 2019 at 6:57 pm

    I just stayed at home and looked after my kids while waiting for my many blood-thirsty Muslim husbands to come home with blood on their hands. They explained to me how they beheaded those disgusting non-believers while they pleaded for their lives and I screamed in delight. This proves that I am entitled to go home to collect welfare provided by the non-believers while teaching my many Muslim sons what is expected on them in the future.

  21. Marigold says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 3:04 am

    One could argue that this ghastly problem is another result of colonialism.The British had to let migrants into the mother country who were part of the old British Empire many of whom were Muslims.Since Muslims do not integrate into Christian majority countries easily because the culture is so different some of these migrants children became radicalised and went off to become fighters or brides of jihadists when another caliphate was declared by a militant arm of ISLAM which we know as ISIS.After a few years ISIS is defeated and after all wars there is an horrific mess to clean up.Just as they had to de Nazify the German population post world war 2 and rebuild Germany so they will have to de- radicalise their nationals who were ISIS supporters and rebuild the territory they occupied.

    Deciding the future of women like MSE Begum is just one task since it can legitimately be argued that the Koran sanctions what ISIS did.Also since ISLAM doesn’t have one leader above all others there can never be any semblance of unity in Islam about how the Koran is interpretated.Even though there are divisions in Christianity all the branches agree on the core beliefs of Christianity depicted in the Bible such as the Trinity, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection ect., The Catholic Church also has the Pope.For example when the Pope speaks on faith and morals ex -cathedra or from the chair of Peter,,which he rarely does, he is said to be infallible.I hasten to add the Pope is not infallible every time he speaks and some popes have definitely lacked wisdom.

    As a Christian If I had anything to do with Begum’s repatriation I would show mercy.After all she was born in Britain.However, I would insist on the condition that she denounces Islam and sheds the ridiculous garments she wears which don’t belong in a Westernised society.I would also have her monitored to make sure she was abiding by the rules laid down.

    As for colonialism.It was a policy followed in previous centuries by all major powers not just Britain for social,economic and political reasons.It has run its course and we are reaping the consequences of its effects.However,like all events of history one cannot expect people in past centuries to think and act as they do in the 21st century.It is easy to be wise in hindsight

  22. LR says

    Apr 18, 2019 at 2:33 am

    Just depends on what the definition of ‘dangerous’ is – in her mind anyway….If she didn’t behead someone, or die herself sewn into a suicide vest – then she didn’t do anything ‘dangerous’…

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