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UK: ISIS bride’s lawyer admits ‘there’s always a possibility’ she’s a terror threat, still fights for her return

Nov 28, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams 16 Comments

The case of Islamic State bride Shamima Begum should have been closed long ago, but it drags on, lining the pockets of her lawyer. In an obvious admission, Begum’s lawyer has admitted that “there is always a possibility” that his client could be a terror threat if she retuyrns to Britain, but still insists that she should be allowed to return.

Some facts about Tasnime Akunjee:

  • He once stated that “Muslims should not co-operate with the Government’s Prevent counter-terror strategy, which he claimed was ‘straightforward, paid-for spying on the community.’”.
  • He defended one of Lee Rigby‘s killers.
  • He has been linked to the human rights group CAGE, whose leaders were once branded “terror apologists” by Boris Johnson.
  • He accused M15 of “creating” Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo by “making his life so difficult.”
  • He once suggested that former Prime Minister Theresa May had “Nazi blood” for “trying to root out extremists and urged Muslims not to co-operate with police.”

Akunjee is clearly not looking out for the interests of the British people, but for those of the jihadist enemies of Britain. Shamima Begum poses a real danger to the UK, even if she goes to prison, as British prisons are hotbeds of jihad recruitment. Begum has stated that she had “no regrets” for having “faithfully” served the Islamic State. She was stripped of her British citizenship while her lawyer relentlessly fought for her, despite the dangerous nature of Islamic State brides, who have often proven to be no less brutal and threatening than their male counterparts. The children of these women are known as “cubs of the caliphate,” and are conditioned and groomed to wage jihad against infidel individuals and nations.

Shamima Begum has for quite some time wanted to return to the UK, not because she considers it home, but because “there is more safety in a British prison, more education and access to family.” UK taxpayers should not be funding her or any other jihadi.

“Jihadi Bride’s Lawyer Admits ‘There’s Always a Possibility’ She’s a Terror Threat”, by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, November 25, 2020:

Lawyer Tasnime Akunjee admits that “there is always a possibility” that his client Shamima Begum is a terror threat, but maintains the jihadi bride should be allowed to return to the UK to contest the deprivation of her British citizenship.

The remarks were made on the second day of hearings in the UK’s Supreme Court on whether the 21-year-old Islamic State member can return.

When asked if the ISIS bride was still a threat, the Begum’s family lawyer told Good Morning Britain on Tuesday that “There is always a possibility [she is a threat].”

The Home Office cited an MI5 report on Monday, telling the Supreme Court that Begum poses “a real and current threat to national security” due to her long-term commitment to Islamic State and her “desensitisation to violence”.

Mr Akunjee then attempted to compare his client’s position to the brother of Salman Abedi, Hashem — who was an accomplice in the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack and was extradited to the UK to stand trial for crimes that had already been committed on British soil — as justification for inviting further terror risk into the country.“If you compare her situation to the brother of the Ariana Grande concert bomber, Mr Abedi, the British government spent a lot of time and effort securing Mr Abedi in Libya and then extraditing him back to the UK where he faced trial for 22 counts of murder. He was subsequently found guilty, and will spend the next 55 years of his natural life in prison,” the lawyer said.

Ms Begum had some observations on the terror attack that targetted women and children, rationalising that she could see the “justification”, comparing it to women and children allegedly being killed in Syria by forces fighting the terror group.

Referencing the Western-backed Syrian Democratic Forces’ offensive in an Islamic State stronghold of Baghuz, Begum had told the BBC in February 2019: “It’s one thing to kill a soldier, it’s fine, it’s self-defence. But to kill people like women and children just like the women and children in Baghuz who are being killed right now unjustly by the bombings — it’s a two-way thing really because women and children are being killed back in the Islamic State right now.

“It’s kind of retaliation. Their justification was that it was retaliation, so I thought, okay, that is a fair justification.”….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United Kingdom Tagged With: Baghuz, MI5, Shamima Begum, Syrian Democratic Forces, Tasnime Akunjee


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  1. Brando says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 9:03 am

    The only way is to convince her Islam is false.She thinks MOHAMED is Prophesized in the Torah and Gospel because of CHAPTER 7:157.

    It is false,Muslims wish they could find Mohammed’s NAME in the OT.However:

    ONE REASON WHY JESUS THOUGHT HE WAS THE MESSIAH

    I believe the Historical Jesus believed he was the Messiah because of this:

    THE PASSAGES IN ZECHARIAH

    That give us the NAME of the Messiah:

    ZECHARIAH 3:8 and ZECH 6:11-13 combined.

    VERY COMMON NAME

    Jesus in his language, Aramaic, is YESHUA, and in Hebrew it is JOSHUA.

    From archeological and other evidence we know JOSHUA was  one of the 10 Most Common Jewish Names in Palestine in the 1st century.

    WHO WAS THE MESSIAH?

    Basically a DESCENDANT of king DAVID,whose father was called JESSE.

    1. JEREMIAH 23:5″

    “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will raise up for DAVID a

    RIGHTEOUSBRANCH ( descendant )( branch is Hebrew is NETZER )

    a KING who will reign wisely,and do what is just and right in the land”

    2. JEREMIAH 33:15

    “In those days and at that time, I will make a RIGHTEOUS BRANCH from DAVID’s line; 

    he will do what is just and right in the land.”

    THE DAVIDIC BRANCH AGAIN

    ISAIAH 11:1

    “A shoot will come up from the stump of JESSE ( My Note;Father of DAVID)

     from his roots a BRANCH will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding”

    ISAIAH 4:2

    “In that day the BRANCH of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.”

    Reply
    • Brando says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 9:06 am

      WHAT JESUS DID

      1.By then NETZER ( branch) had become a CODE WORD for MESSIAH

      2.ZECHARIAH was a man who lived in the Time of the Second Temple ( 5th century BC ) and he wrote:

      ZECH 3:1

      “Then he showed me JOSHUA the HIGHT  PRIEST standing before the angel of the Lord”

      Then ” MY SERVANT, the BRANCH”

      ZECH 3:8

      “Listen, HIGH PRIEST JOSHUAH, you and your associates seated before you, who are men SYMBOLIC of THINGS to COME:

      I am going to bring MY SERVANT, the BRANCH”

      Then Jesus read:

      ZECH 6:11-12

      “Take the silver and gold and make a CROWN (My note: Symbol of a KING )

      , and set it on the HEAD of the HIGH PRIEST, JOSHUA son of Jozadak.

      Tell him this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘HERE is the MAN

      ( My note: the man is JOSHUA the High Priest )

      whose NAME ( My note: the name JOSHUA) is the BRANCH,

      and he will branch out from his place and build the temple of the Lord”

      Jesus read it and saw that the Name of the Messiah would be Joshua/Yeshua,his own name.

      Reply
      • mortimer says

        Nov 28, 2020 at 9:19 am

        Brando, we are discussing Tasnime Akunjee and Shamima Begum.

        Reply
        • Brando says

          Nov 28, 2020 at 2:02 pm

          Well,regarding them and ISIS: at its peak,ISIS had 33,000 soldiers,in 2015.

          Since Turkey invaded Syria last year and took over whole areas,some 30,000 ISIS soldiers have simply de facto become the allies of Erdogan. They are now protected by the Turkish army.

          CONCLUSION: Erdogan invaded to save them from being entirely eliminated by the Kurds and the Syrian army.

    • Keith O says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 4:01 pm

      Brando, quoting Biblical passages does not detract from the fact that this female willingly became a brood mare for a terrorist group.
      Nor will any attempt to convert or deprogram her work.
      The only ways to fix problems like her is to keep her out of any civilised country or a lump of fast moving lead behind the ear coated in pig fat.

      Reply
      • Brando says

        Nov 29, 2020 at 8:59 am

        I have to agree you are right,it is also bigger,few people (lack of interest)know the following,which comes from ALEXANDRE DEL VALLE(French scholar):

        1.This is Not a Conspiracy Theory Affirmation.In 2001,after 9/11,in ITALY,they raid the house of a Muslim BANQUER in the town of LUGANO,

        YOUSSEF NADA, president of TAQWA BANK.

        2.They suspected him of financing 9/11.

        3.They discovered a 14 PAGE document entitled THE PROJECT.

        4.The document has a DATE: December 1982.

        5.It outlines the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’s plan to PEACEFULLY conquer Europe via INFILTRATION

        and making ALLIANCES with intellectual and leftist groups.

        6.Youssef Nada said he did NOT know the author,it is unsigned.

        HOWEVER

        1.The ideas in it are the SAME as those by SAID RAMADAN,written in his journal in Geneva, Switzerland , AL-MUSLIMOUN,during the 1960s.

        2.Said Ramadan (Egyptian ) was the SON-IN-LAW of HASSAN AL-BANNA,the Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928,in Egypt.

        3.And Said was the father of TARIQ RAMADAN.

        4.And one reason Al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood was the RESTORE the CALIPHATE,which had been abolished in 1924.

        Reply
  2. Jayell says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 9:21 am

    There are far too many pernicious specimens like Tasnime Akunjee who have found their way into the UK Establishment woodwork and are clearly intent on rotting it from the inside. This character clearly does not identify with the UK or its legitimate citizens at all since he’s obviously not one of them, so he comes out with preposterous garbage like admitting ‘that his client Shamima Begum is possibly a terror threat’ whilst maintaining that ‘the jihadi bride should be allowed to return to the UK to contest the deprivation of her British citizenship’ (which she literally threw away herself) and clearly showing no respect for British standards or British citizens in the process. No doubt this all accords perfectly with his track record of defending a sick murderer of an unarmed British soldier on home ground and encouraging muslim non-co-operation with the police in pursuit of public safety. If the likes of Akunjee don’t have anything in common with the UK, why don’t they just go somewhere else that’s more their level?

    Reply
  3. mortimer says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 9:23 am

    Lawyers like Tasnime Akunjee and Sadiq Khan who defend jihadists are part of the problem. Every accused person has the legal right of competent defense, however, self-declared terrorists are self-declared guilty parties. They are ‘guilty with an explanation’. However, our Western societies should not ‘buy’ the explanation that they are doing a fine religious deed when the terrorists murder us merely because we are not Muslims.

    Reply
  4. Atheist Kafir/Infidel says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 10:13 am

    What a beautiful Koranimal bint — not!

    Koranimalism delenda est!

    Reply
  5. Crusades Were Right says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 10:22 am

    UK Security vs Islamophobia Selection Form

    Please check the box that best describes your position:

    If you agree that Mohammedan terrorists of foreign extraction should be allowed to remain in / return to the UK and continue to hold British citizenship check the box immediately below.

    ☐ I am a good person who supports tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism.

    If you believe that Mohammedan terrorists of foreign extraction should be stripped of British citizenship and deported from / excluded from entering the UK check the box immediately below.

    ☐ I am a racist Islamophobe.

    lol

    Reply
  6. Infidel says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 11:10 am

    Why don’t they send her to Bangladesh? I know that at one point, the Bangladesh government said that she’d be executed if returned, but today, Bangladesh is fast becoming a lot more like her. Smuggle her into that country, and let her breed a few more jihadists there

    Reply
    • European pagan says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 11:45 am

      Execution would be the best solution

      Reply
      • citoyen says

        Nov 29, 2020 at 11:27 am

        European Pagan. I like your nom de guerre.
        Yeah …let’s roll back history to the time when there was a god flickering in the fireplace and a god whispering in the dark wood instead of as now where we are overlorded, threatened, and blackmailed, by these gigantic, gloomy, humourless, religious organisations. A grey world. And I don’t mean Facebook, Google, and Apple.
        In the far distant future of our space-faring descendants, in a galaxy far away (as far away as possible) we can give the muslims a planet all to themselves (actually at least three-Planet Sunni, Planet Shiite, and a wandering moon called Phobos for recalcitrants like what’s its name I forget, ). Of course, a big glowing gaseous Catholic one. A Protestant one made completely of “Aberdeen Granite”. For the Jews a small Mercury-like planet chosen closest to the new sun so they can keep warm while they wait (forever) for the First Coming. For the Mormons, a dry dead planet with many, many moons (for the wives and excess livestock) Then miscellaneous left over items, asteroids for the minor sects, Latter Day Saint, Falun Gong (gosh and golly, millions of those weirdos already). They can spy on each from afar with huge telescopes. Eventually each planet will descend into civil war and so more sects will arise, ad infinitum.
        But what can you say?….these people are never happy, automobiles, aeroplanes (ok airplanes), smartphones, 5G… and planets! F^ckem.

        Reply
  7. Peter WF says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 8:42 pm

    This lawyer should lead by example and house her as a resident in his home. He should follow the lead of –
    https://rmx.news/article/article/france-head-of-pro-migrant-aid-organization-murdered-in-his-sleep-by-afghan-man
    This will set a fine example to the pope who is yet to house one of the poor refugees in the vatican.

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Nov 29, 2020 at 7:30 am

      Peter WF,

      Your point is well taken.

      Until infidel / muslim apologists have some personal “skin in the game”, very little is likely to change…

      Reply
  8. Crusades Were Right says

    Nov 29, 2020 at 10:27 am

    The way things are in the UK these days, not only will they let her back – they’ll probably put out a red carpet for her at the airport! The full “victim-hero” treatment! “Anyone who objects is a …” Nah, you all know!

    Reply

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