UK-born woman Shamima Begum who joined ISIS loses appeal over citizenship removal
UK-born woman Shamima Begum who joined ISIS loses appeal over citizenship removal
She left London for Syria in 2015 when she was 15, and married an ISIS fighter. Read more at straitstimes.com.
I’m gonna agree with the UK on this one, you wanna fuck off and join ISIS you can live with the decision elsewhere.
A child who was groomed and sex trafficked by terrorists is now being punished for it. Also this is a punishment that is only being applied to her because she has Bangladeshi ancestors so the government argues she is hypothetically eligible for a Bangladeshi passport (which the government of Bangladesh has no intention of giving her), and so the Tories can pretend they're not illegally rendering her stateless.
This is literally a punishment that, by the Tories' own formulation of their rule, would not be applied if the sex trafficking victim was a white girl called Shania with English parents instead of a brown girl called Shamima.
We're supposed to be a country where people are treated equally before the law. But the Tories are now claiming that they and any future government has the right to render any Briton with some hypothetical right to a foreign passport (for example, most second generation immigrants and every single Jewish Briton) stateless at the whim of the home secretary.
Great summary, but I want to point out that the reality of why they're doing this is to pander to racist voters who were told their opinion by a highly effective villification campaign against this woman in tabloid newspapers.
Once these things gain traction, politicians always kowtow to the loudest public opinions
Should all children who are groomed and exploited be cast out? Or just those children who are groomed and exploited in specific ways?
@Zellith this, she was groomed in the UK and trafficked at age 15 by a people smuggler (who was actually a 5 Eyes/ Canadian asset, what's worse).
And "married" off a few days later.
Anyone who thinks 15 is too young for the age of consent should face the fact she wasn't capable of consenting to any of that.
Just those who joined a literal terrorist cell I’d say. It’s not their fault, but giving brainwashed, radicalized religious zealots citizenship in the very societies they left to destroy is even more wrong. And while we shield children from most consequences, some things are too heinous to forgive like that.
Play stupid games, win stupid prices.
Aka fuck around and find out.
Aka Britain foisting its problems on other countries for racist reasons
Will All British citizens who joined the IDF to commit genocide in Gaza receive the same treatment and have their British citizenship removed ? I bet not.
According to British and western double standards, you are only a criminal when your acts don't align with their interests. Fucking hypocrites.
really wild the difference in reaction to shamima begum and rhianan rudd in the uk media.
i can't put my finger on why that is...
She was a vulnerable teenager who was groomed and trafficked into a religious cult. A white girl would not have been treated like this by the law, the press and the public.
She is Bangladesh originated. Even we don't want her.
What?
I think they are conveying the sentiment in their country, Bangladesh. It's not their problem in the first place.