Will anyone have the wit or courage to investigate how Shamima Begum got that idea? Who taught her Islam? What does her mosque in the U.K. teach? Does anyone know? Does anyone care? Or are such questions “Islamophobic”?
“Jihadi Bride: I Thought Joining ISIS Was ‘Doing the Right Thing as a Muslim,’” by Victoria Friedman, Breitbart, September 15, 2021:
Former teen jihadi bride Shamima Begum claimed that she joined the Islamic State terror group in Syria because she thought she was “doing the right thing as a Muslim” and she did not know ISIS was a death cult, thinking it was only “an Islamic community”.
Speaking during her first live television interview to ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Wednesday, Begum appeared to be continuing to market herself as, not so much as a rehabilitated extremist, but a naive teen groomed by the terror group and manipulated her into agreeing to leave her London home to marry a jihadist in Syria aged 15.
Far from the hijab-clad woman Britons saw when reacquainted with the then-19-year-old during her first interviews with The Times from the notorious Al Hol refugee camp for ISIS family members in 2019, Begum continues to sport her rebranded appearance — a flesh-exposing top, branded baseball cap, loose hair, and makeup — that the mainstream media appeared to fawn over when the look was first debuted earlier this year.
Now living at the Al Roj refugee camp in northern Syria, the 22-year-old said that she did not intend to join the terror group “for violent reasons” and “not because I wanted to be a terrorist. It was because I thought I was doing the right thing as a Muslim. I did not want to hurt anyone in Syria or anywhere else in the world.”
Asked to elaborate on how it was “the right thing” as a Muslim to join a death cult, Begum told Good Morning Britain‘s Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley: “At the time, I did not know that it was a death cult. I thought it was an Islamic community that I was joining.”
Begum went on to say that she had been “groomed” by extremists online “and taken advantage of and manipulated into coming”….
CogitoErgoSum says
So what can she tell us now about what she got wrong about ISIS? How did the members of ISIS get it so wrong to believe that the Koran was the word of Allah telling Muslims to FIGHT until everyone in the world has submiited to Islam in one way or another? Why did they make some people pay the Jizya? She disagrees with all that. Okay, so WHY? Why should verse 9:29 of the Koran NOT be taken at face value? Why should Muslims completely ignore one of the last things Muhammad is supposedly to have told Muhammad? Why? Why? Why? And why can no one answer this?
CogitoErgoSum says
Correction: Why should Muslims completely ignore one of the last things ALLAH is supposedly to have told Muhammad?
mortimer says
Agree. The final chapter of the Koran (chapter 9) is the JIHAD chapter that abrogates all the verse of ‘peaceful’ or ‘tolerant’ Islam. Begum knew this.
Mohammed said that JIHAD is a required part of one’s commitment to Islam.
Narrated Mujashi: My brother and I came to the Prophet and I requested him to take the pledge of allegiance from us for migration. He said, “Migration has passed away with its people.” I asked, “For what will you take the pledge of allegiance from us then?” He (Mohammed) said, “I will take (the pledge) for Islam and jihad.” – Bukhari 4,52,208
In the above quote, Mohammed says that allegiance to Islam includes a commitment to the political action of jihad.
Mohammed is the expert on Islam.
Jerry says
Allah, the 360th Idol of the Kaaba, even upon the say so of the self proclaimed Plunderer for Profit, never told Mohammad anything.
Even bases on his own uttering, Mohammad was supposed to have received his so called revelations from Jibril – the Arch Angel Gabriel.
Whether or not “Jibril” was truly Sstan in disguise or the toxic evil Ideology of Islam was the original invention of the Plunderer for Profit is still under debate.
In contrast recall the Biblicsl Testament about Bslaam, a hired hit man who went on his mission to put a curse upon the Jews mounted on.his.donkey, a “She Ass”.
On the way an angle of YAHWE with his sword drawn, blocked their way, on the edge of the precipice but only the female donkey could see him, and no matter how hard Balssm whipped her, she wouldn’t budge.
Eventually, the Good Lord opened the mouth of the She Ass and she spoke in human voice and language.
It is a no brainer to figure out which of the two, the desert plundering Warlord and fake prophet, or Balaam’s female donkey was the true authentic Messenger of God.
David says
I think you were right the first time! Is not Allah a figment of Muhammad’s imagination?
Is Begum still in the camp, but wearing Western clothing? This will not go down well with her fellow inmates.
Johnny B says
Apparently nobody told her that ISIS and terror has nothing to do with Islam. If she’s looking for an Islamic community in order to live a “pure Islamic life”, then there are plenty of opportunities in the Middle East or North Africa. It makes no sense she should to allowed back to Britain where she’s not able to do that unless it’s because she expects the British people to pay for her and risk getting blown up because of her.
Kenneth J Johnson says
I find her story very hard to believe..Ken
somehistory says
One of the main things mozlums do…all of them…is lie. There may be some who have never killed anyone, some who have not beaten or raped anyone…but they are taught so many ways to deceive others, have different terms for their lies, but they are all taught to lie.
No one should believe this woman. Once someone lies, trust is not easily restored, and she is a mozlum, taught to lie.
When people make choices, they must deal/live with the consequences…some good, others less so and still others, bad.
So, this mozlum woman made choices the rest of us would not have made; other mozlum females made the same choices; and they must all…**all** suffer the consequences of their choices.
Just because she is now saying “sorry, I didn’t know people were killed, I didn’t know women and children were killed, I didn’t know….” and claiming that she can ‘help’ in the battle against terrorism, she shouldn’t be trusted….and, she should have to suffer the consequences of what she did.
No matter whether the U.K. government allows her to return, our Creator will hold her accountable for her decisions and her actions and her lies.
tim gallagher says
Well I guess that, logically, she is telling the truth when she says that joining in with the murderous, sadistic scum of the earth vermin that composed ISIS was doing “the right thing” as a Muslim. It is all there in the Koran. That’s the problem for all of us who have to put up with the existence of this foul, evil ideology, islam.. Being a devout Muslim means being an evil, totally barbaric and inhuman monster by any civilised standards. It is Islam that should have been consigned to the rubbish bin of history centuries ago. And this Muslim creature should stay in some Muslim country for the rest of her useless life.
Walter Sieruk says
There is an old wise saying, which is that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
gravenimage says
Dear Walter, I would not apply that here. To the foolish people who want to give this vicious Jihadist a second chance, yes, but not to Shamima Begum herself.
Raja says
“She thought she was doing the right thing”
Since when pious Muslims started doing the right thing? Even the most pious Muslims have poor morals, otherwise they would have left islam before being immersed in poisoned.
The media/press should not use her to further the cause of islam through taqiyya. They will do well to take a refresher course on islam and detoxify Left ideologies, both detrimental to the life on earth.
James Lincoln says
Raja,
The more pious the muslim, the more dangerous for society.
fadeye@yahoo.com says
Somebody (maybe one of the founding fathers) said, “Beware the Christian who Doesn’t follow his religion…but be More wary of the mozlem who Does!”
Jerry says
Name and destiny change would be in order:
Let Shamima Begum
be
Sharmutta Be Gone
gravenimage says
Muslima from UK says she joined ISIS because she thought she was ‘doing the right thing as a Muslim’
……………….
And this is indeed true.
A tougher interview than I expected, I’m heartened to see.
And her saying that she was unfazed by seeing bins full of heads is quite recent. The idea that she had to say this sort of thing because unnamed women were watching her is implausible, to put it mildly. She simply could have said that she never saw or even heard of anything like this. But she gave herself away that first time.
Rotten Eye says
Her body language is dripping with “I am lying”. Notice her eye contact, continually adjusting her hair when she is giving an answer that she knows is a lie.
Interrogate her attached to a lie detector instrument – it would probably bounce off the ground.
L.Dunn says
Innocent people die because of this death-cult called Islam. Leave the little terrorist wannabe out in the desert. That’s where she belongs. She is an adult and she made her choice.
David Foot says
Originally she said that she was unrepentant of what she did, she has also said a load of other things.
UK citizenship was really valuable, but now she is an ISIS citizen and she should claim to the UN.
What to do if your nation vanishes?
She might get a UN passport and be gone!