London is not taking back the 19-year-old British woman who returned from ISIS

British authorities want to strip Citizenship Shamim Begum - a resident of London, who went to Syria with her friends in 2015, to join the terrorist group ISIS, and in 2019, she gave birth to a child there and asked to return to the United Kingdom.

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Begum, who was 2015 years old in 15, flew from London Gatwick Airport to Turkey with two classmates, and from there went by bus to the Syrian border. In Syria, they were going to meet with Sharmina Begum (namesake of Shamima Begum), who left in 2014 year. Later, she said that the ideas of LIH, she imbued after watching propaganda videos on the Internet, writes Rtvi.

After Begum and her friends Amir Abaza and Kadiz Sultan left for Syria, nothing was known about their life there. In February, 2019, a pregnant Begum, was found in the Syrian refugee camp by a reporter for the British Times. 18 February it became known that she gave birth (two more of her children died in infancy). Whether Abaza is alive, it is unknown, Sultan died in 2016 year

According to Begum, after arriving in Syria, each of her friends married an ISIS militant. With her husband, who accepted Islam by the Dutchman Iago Riedeykom, Begum lived in Rakka. She describes her life in ISIS as "mostly normal." Begum several times witnessed reprisals against the "enemies of Islam", but took them for granted.

Video with reprisals against journalists and Western citizens Begum in a conversation with the Times also justified. Journalists, in her words, are “a threat to the security of the caliphate.”

Begum said that, along with her husband, she moved from Raqqa to another Syrian city of Baghuz, which remained one of the last territories under ISIS control. When the Kurds began attacking him in February with the support of Western forces, she fled from there. According to her, she was frightened for the life of her child, who was about to be born. Begum's friends decided to stay at Baghuz.

Then Begum found herself in a refugee camp in northern Syria in the city of Al-Hul. Her husband had surrendered to the fighters of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" - an alliance of opposition forces. In a conversation with the Times, the Briton said that she knew how she was related to her at home now, but she still wanted to return, that she was “quietly raising a child.”

In the interview Sky News Begum said that people should show sympathy for her for all that she experienced in four years. “I didn’t know what I was getting involved in when I left [to Syria],” she explained. Begum reiterated that she had nothing against executions, because "Islam permits this." She claims that all four years she was an “ordinary housewife”, did not do anything “dangerous” and did not call for joining ISIL.

In an interview, Begum largely contradicted herself. At first she asked for compassion, but immediately said that she did not regret her trip to Syria, and then she asked for forgiveness for having left.

Begum’s request to let her return to her homeland did not seem to have made any impression on the British authorities. A week after the Times material, the Foreign Office notified her family of its intention to deprive Begum of British citizenship. She was offered citizenship of Bangladesh, where her parents were from. The British, who still remains with the child in the refugee camp, said when she learned about the position of the Foreign Office that she was not “shocked” by this, but reading the official letter was “heartbreaking.”

“I heard that people are being sent back to the UK and I don’t understand how my case is different,” she said.

Now Begum wants to try to get the citizenship of the Netherlands, where her husband comes from. The legal adviser to the Begum family called the decision of the Foreign Office excessive. He noted that Britain had allowed several hundred ISIL militants who had directly participated in hostilities to return home. Liberal Democrats and Scottish nationalists also criticized the position of the British authorities. They demand that Begum be allowed to return home and conduct a full investigation.

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