Wow, just wow. Shamima Begum, the notorious schoolgirl who fled the country at 15 to join IS can’t come back to the UK to face justice.
The Supreme Court has ruled that she cannot set foot on British soil to fight for reinstatement of her passport.
I’m not a hand-wringing liberal who sees the good in everyone, far from it.
Like the majority of people, my knee jerk reaction when I first heard about the runaway schoolgirl was to demand her head.
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“She was old enough to know what she was doing, she admitted she wasn’t fazed by decapitated heads in the bin, she makes the rest of us moderate Muslims guilty by association, she is evil through and through.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
But we don’t revoke the citizenship of other criminals, no matter how heinous their atrocities.
We respect the law and try them in court.
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You could argue that Ms Begum didn’t respect the innocent victims of IS; the Yazidi women who were raped and kept as sex slaves, the gays who were flung from buildings, anyone who didn’t adhere to the contorted, extremist view of Islam.
You still follow the law.
Well, not any more.
The real message from this nonsensical ruling is that if you are brown you are not really British.
After decades of facing the wrath of racists and trying to continually prove our allegiance to this country, it turns out that we aren’t accepted at all.
This is the green light that racial extremists have been waiting for, for the right to send us back to where we don’t come from and it makes me sick.
