Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 15-02-2019
Questions have been raised about whether an 19-year-old British woman should be allowed back into the UK after she fled to Syria to join ISIS.
Shamima Begum and two of her fellow Bethnal Green academy students, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, made headlines when they flew from Gatwick to Turkey in February 2015, then entered Syria to join the terror group.
Begum says she has no regrets, but wants to return to the UK.
In an interview with the Times Begum talked about seeing “beheaded heads” in bins – but says that it “did not faze her”.
Speaking from a refugee camp in Syria, she said she was nine months pregnant and wanted to come home for her baby.
Anthony Loyd of the Times says he doesn’t know whether Begum would be allowed back into the UK.
“She doesn’t know. She’s very worried about it. She wants to come back to the UK to give birth to her child. While I think it’s so imminent, I don’t think that’s going to happen. She doesn’t want her third child to die in Syria. She’s worried she’ll be separated from her baby, she’s worried she might go to prison. She doesn’t know what her legal status is and neither does anyone else.”
Begum says Sultana was killed in an air strike on Raqqa, the stronghold of the ISIS.
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