So Shamima Begum has lost her appeal – not that she had any to begin with, I suspect.
Shamima Begum, the woman who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Syria, has lost the initial stage of her appeal against the Home Office’s decision to revoke her UK citizenship.
A unanimous judgment by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) found against Begum, now 20, on three preliminary grounds, including that she had not been improperly deprived of her citizenship. The judgment prevents her from returning to London.
Good.
Bad puns aside, there is a serious point to be made here. One minute we are told that children should have the vote and the next we are told that running off to join an enemy state that has declared war on us is merely a folly of youth and that she was too young to understand what she was doing.
Well, which is it? You can’t have it both ways.
That aside, she knew exactly what she was doing. Actions have consequences and being told to never darken our door again is a fairly minor one given the treason in which she engaged. Previous generations would have had her back – long enough to put her at the end of a rope. So, on balance, she got off lightly. She gets to live out her life in an Islamic shithole, which was what she wanted all along. Wasn’t it?
If forced to go to Bangladesh, her parents’ country of origin, she could be hanged, they told the tribunal at a partially secret hearing last October.
Oh, well, maybe she should have thought about the consequences when she fled this country to fight for its enemies. It would seem that even Islamic shitholes don’t want her either. There’s much being said about how unfair this is and how she is at risk while in Syria and there is so much danger. Well, she made a choice. She went of her own volition. No one forced her to go. She is a volunteer. Everything that has happened to her is entirely of her own doing. Actions, meet consequences.
No sympathy here. None at all.
Winning!
I am not in favour of the death penalty and have argued that case here often enough. However, if that was her fate, I won’t shed any tears. She will have brought it on herself. That is the world she wanted to enter after all.
It is the world she wanted to enter, also the world she would gladly impose on the rest of us
Well quite. Hence my absence of sympathy for her plight.
If she was allowed to come back to this country, what would happen? Being homeless and jobless, she would be given free accommodation, with council tax and utilities paid by the taxpayer; she would become a heroine amongst the tunnel visioned, single issue, left whingers and Muslims; she would probably marry someone from the Muslim community and produce a shed load of brainwashed mini jihadists and, finally, elected as the Parliamentary member for some Midlands shithole, where she would campaign constantly for sharia law to take precedence in the UK. All on the taxpayers pennies. For me, the alternative seems much more attractive.
She had no trouble going to Syria to enthusiastically support a caliphate whose prime mode of operation was to terrorise and murder other people. Why on earth should I care if she has found herself in danger?