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She was born here, she should be brought back her to face justice, no matter how horrific her deeds - and they are horrific. This isn’t, by the way, a defence of the woman - if we were going on emotions alone, I’d happily see her rot on the basis of a mere fraction of the awful things she has done.Ī friend, who visited her six times in the camps, recalls the casualness of her cruelty: how she blithely told him one day she was “over” the deaths of her three children.īut her inability not to seem charming or even human is irrelevant. Many members of Isis have been repatriated by other countries. Jihadi Jack, the Oxford schoolboy who ran away to join Isis in 2014, remains a Canadian citizen - Britain stripped him of his citizenship as well, but unlike Begum he has another passport. What is it that she has done, and all the other jihadists haven’t, that puts her in this unusually stateless position? Even her husband, the odious martinet Yago Riedijk, is still Dutch.

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In short, she’s about as western as you can get: a monster we created.īut monsters deserve justice too - our prisons are full of them. People who say they have suffered because of race or religion, but who haven’t, and who then weaponise it and turn it into some kind of acquired victimhood, while obsessing over what’s on their phones. People suffering because of race or religion. Selfish, spoilt, disaffected youth who think they deserve everything. Look at anything she has done and you will see reflected in her almost every serious problem our society faces. She is often described as a “polarising figure” but that is not true: everyone’s agreed she’s a nightmare. Of that I have no doubt.”īut what did he “see”? What does he “know”? Why won’t he tell us? If you did know what I knew, you would have made exactly the same decision. In 2021, Sajid Javid, explaining his snap decision as home secretary to remove her citizenship, which was upheld last week, said, “You haven’t seen what I saw. What kind of a regime merrily robs people of their status? Is it a civilised, mature society, or is it a despotic, insecure, failing state? It’s the manner in which Begum has been thrown aside more than anything: it’s been, if we’re generous, slapdash. But a more interesting question is: how far does our government fall into the former?

We can argue whether or not Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl, falls into the latter category.

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At the other end of the scale there is the usual toothless cabal of serial killers, terrorist leaders, Nazi war criminals: people unfit to take part in society. Anne Frank, Karl Marx, even Aristotle Onassis - all, at one point, stripped of their status by merciless, death-eating regimes. If you look down the list of famously stateless people, it is distinguished (at times) and long.