ISIS bride Shamima Begum put on her traditional Islamic dress for Western dude at her Syrian refugee camp – more like a British tourist in shades, a striped T-shirt and a zippered sweater.
The 21-year-old’s ensemble in the Al Roj camp was in stark contrast to the black niqab she wore when she was found in 2019, when she expressed her support for the terrorist group.
Begum is stuck in detention camp after the British High Court unanimously rejected her request to return to Britain.
She shook hands with the Telegraph on Sunday, but politely refused to be questioned, citing legal advice, although she agreed to be photographed.
Begum was just 15 when she and two other schoolgirls traveled from London to Syria to join the jihadists.
Her citizenship was revoked in 2019 on the grounds of national security. It is believed that the other two died in the fighting.
She lost three children in the years that followed, the last one born in 2019 after marrying an ISIS fighter from the Netherlands. That year, she told Sky News that her first two children died in a camp due to illness.
On Monday, a lawyer for her family accused Britain of racism over her treatment and called her a ‘tragic scapegoat’.
“What has become of Christian forgiveness? Doesn’t that apply to a woman – and a dark-colored woman to it? It seems that different rules apply, ‘said lawyer Tasnime Akunjee and sculptor Anish Kapoor in a joint statement, reports Agence France-Presse.
‘Is it perhaps that some of us are more British than others? Shamima is of Bangladeshi descent, does that change her right to British nationality? They said.
“I’m tempted to think it’s doing so especially in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling, ‘the two added.
Kapoor, best known for his conceptual art installations, and Akunjee call the UK’s attitude ” a disgraceful accusation of our national conscience ”, suggesting that ‘four young white schoolgirls’ from a less ethnically diverse area outside London ‘no doubt’ would be treated differently. .
“It is ‘divide and rule’, the terror that sustained the British Empire for 200 years. Did we return to practice it at home now? they ask.
Eight other British women also turned down interviews with the Telegraph on Sunday, citing legal advice.
Camp manager Nora Abdo said the British women in the camp regularly turned down media requests based on legal advice, adding that they behaved well and caused no problems.
Abdo told the newspaper that some women in the camp had rejected extremist ideology.
“We noticed the change in their clothes,” she said. “They want to come home. They say they are ready to pay the penalty for their crimes. Some think of the future for their children. ”