The news that one of the girls who made history by going out to join the Isis forces wants to come home is both interesting and shocking.
Home?
I have listened to much of what we know of the present situation and like most of us who were shocked by the original determination to join the Isis troops I now wonder at her plea to be allowed back "home" .
Duty of care is being quoted as a reason for allowing her back into England.
Like most of the rest of the UK I was shocked by the original decision.
I had had ten years teaching Asian children and the girls had been giggly, typical teenagers who enjoyed wrapping their shawls around their heads whenever a male arrived in the classroom .
Their total ignorance with regard to hygiene and human biology was astonishing. It’s them I thought of when the girls flew out to join the Isis fighters.
As they had been brought up in this country the girls who rushed out to fight with Isis could not have been ignorant...they had been to school here and spoke good English so we have to believe that they knew how you got pregnant.
The girls said they were going out to fight as well as find husbands...
It would be interesting to know what happened to the other two girls but by all accounts the present one who wants to come home has not had a good time.
My first reaction to hearing this story was to think, "What a cheek!"
If we do agree to let her back in she would presumably be kept in isolation.
This would be an expense but to keep her under some sort of scrutiny seems essential.
I have no idea whether we will let her back in but if we do I think she will need watching..
I’m glad the decision isn’t mine...because my Christian charity is clashing with my need for rough justice.
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I'm also glad it's not my decision. I sympathise with whoever has to.
My immediate reaction was as " No way. You made your bed, you lie in it."
Perhaps setting up a little residence on Rockall would be a solution with weekly airdrops of food.
She would be back in Britain but not having a negative impact on the live of others.
This a comment from Ray. Sorry Ray my finger slipped and I accidentally deleted your original comment.
"I also heard the news with a similar reaction. She does appear to have had a rough time, if her story is true of course.
She has apparently had and lost two previous babies and now clearly wants, needs the care of the NHS for her third.
One part of me is screaming "she is still little more than a child we should offer support, whilst another more basic instinct says "she has said she regrets nothing, what is she really up to?"
If she is allowed back ( by whom) you are right she must be watched.
Just washing my hands. ,
More will follow. Rearrange this well-known sentence: "Wedge the of thin end"
Some background to this. The news said that as many as 40 former suspected IS fighters are already back in the UK? Who are all being closely monitored by police and the security services.
These are people, who took the same path as the three teenage girls, and they presumably should all be locked up, but there isn't enough evidence to incriminate them, or alternatively, with already crowded prisons, they don't want to have them in positions to radicalize other prisoners, which appears to be going on with those already in prison, able to spread their poisonous beliefs to others.
As for Miss Begum, she, having chosen to leave the security and comfort of the UK to fight with a terrorist organisation, surely forfeits any right she has to return?
The government appears to be taking a hard line, perhaps she should offer herself to the mercy of the US hard line and spend the rest of her life in a prison in Cuba.
The humanitarian issue is her unborn child, who did not choose its mother. I suspect that the child might enjoy British nationality through her - does that mean that we should separate mother and child, leaving the mother in the camp, while bringing the child home to her UK family? A question for the politicians to answer.
I have no thoughts either way. But if Miss Begum returns with her child, its is obvious that separation will be on the cards, because she has not demonstrated that she is a suitable person to raise a child in the UK.
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