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by macliam » Tue Feb 19 2019 11:20pm
I'm in two minds about all this.....
My inclination is to be merciful, but I am well aware that some Islamists would regard that as proof of the weakness of the West. I am somewhat surprised that the government moved so quickly to remove her citizenship - but they do have prior on that, don't they. It's also possible that the action could be overturned, because that wouldn't be the first time either.
However, we are being drip-fed the facts, as usual. Firstly, it seems that removing her citizenship will not automatically make her stateless either due to her marriage or by inheriting the nationality of her own mother - but dumping her on Holland or Bangladesh seems a dubious course of action, particularly as she has never even been to either country. As for the child, I wonder if it will also be a race between the UK and Holland to see who removes citizenship first, since his father is Dutch ........ either way, he seems a likely candidate to be weaponized by radicals in a few years time. What it says about Javid is that he's quite happy to keep her in a refugee camp for the foreseeable future, rather than dealing with the issue of returning Islamists now.
So what is her crime? Daesh being what it is, it seems likely she was never more than a brood mare for this foreign fighter - married 10 days after arriving in 2015 and then bearing three children in four years, there would be precious little time for anything else, but who knows? From her comments, I doubt she would be calling on the UK, if she could still be living in the caliphate as she seems to have thought her life there was quite "normal" - and again, I have known a Muslim who took his family off to live in Saudi, to ensure they lived under Islam, even though he knew that they were likely to be treated worse than in the UK. I'd also be interested in the timeline of her "escape" and her husband's surrender - because if he surrendered first, I'd surmise that she had no choice but to go on the run as daesh wouldn't be too well pleased, or too merciful on a deserting fighter's family.
I don't think this is going to go away any time soon............
Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get me