«Breaking News» Father of ISIS bride Shamima Begum says Britain must take her back

Britain is duty-bound to let ISIS bride Shamima Begum return to the UK before deciding her punishment, her father has said.

Ahmed Ali admitted his daughter made mistakes when she fled east London for Syria in 2015, but stressed she is a British citizen who has every right to return.

Ali has initially told the Mail on Sunday that he agreed with Home Secretary Sajid Javid's move to strip his daughter of her citizenship, but now says he was 'misquoted'.

Shamima Begum must be allowed to return to the UK, father Ahmed Ali says, after she ran away to join ISIS in Syria and married a jihadi fighter

Ali said that his daughter - pictured with her week old son in Al Hawl camp for captured ISIS wives - has a right to return to this country, before being punished

Ali initially told the newspaper: 'I know she is stuck there [in Syria] but that’s because she has done actions that made her get stuck like this.

‘I am on the side of the Government.

‘I can’t say whether it is right or wrong, but if the law of the land says that it is correct to cancel her citizenship, then I agree.’

But speaking to AFP from his village in northeastern Bangladesh, he recanted, saying: 'The British government should take her back because she is a British citizen.

'If she has committed any crime, they should bring her back to London, to her country, and punish her there.'

The 60-year-old added: 'I don't think that (to revoke Begum's citizenship) was a right thing to do.

'To err is human. You and I can both can make a mistake. It is OK to commit an error, all humans do that. One feels sad if a child commits a mistake.'

Begum left the UK for Syria with two schoolfriends in 2015, when she was just 15, and her case has caused political divisions in Britain.

It highlights a dilemma facing many European countries, divided over whether to allow jihadists and IS sympathisers home to face prosecution or bar them as the so-called 'caliphate' crumbles.

Public sentiment hardened against Begum after she showed little remorse about IS attacks in media interviews from the camp in eastern Syria, where she arrived after fleeing fighting between the terror group and US-backed forces.

However, in an interview with the Daily Mail, she showed repentance and said she would like to serve as an example to other women thinking of joining a terror group. 

Market day in Al Hawl camp, where Shamima is being held. The camp is squalid, poorly supplied, and rife with violence

Women buy basic supplies at the camp, having fled the last remaining pocket of ISIS territory as the caliphate collapsed 

‘I am hoping to be given a second chance’, she says quietly.

‘I’d like to be an example of how someone can change. I want to help, encourage other young British people to think before they make life- changing decisions like this and not to make the same mistake as me.

‘I can’t do that if I am sitting here in a camp. I can’t do that for you.’

Ali, who lives with his second wife in the village of Daorai in Sunamganj district, said he felt sorry for his daughter and believed she may have been brainwashed into joining IS.

'It was certainly a mistake to go to IS. Perhaps it was because she was a child. She may not have gone there (Syria) willingly. She may have been ill-advised by other people,' he said.

Ahmed last saw his daughter in Britain just two months before she fled to Syria with Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase in March 2015.

He says she did not show any sign of having been radicalised. 'I did not see any such thing at all.'

He also highlighted how the Bangladesh government has declared that Begum would not be allowed into the country.

The British government reportedly believes that Begum was entitled to claim Bangladesh citizenship, though this is disputed by the South Asian country.

'She can't come to Bangladesh since she is not a citizen of this country,' he said.

Tasnime Akunjee, a lawyer for Begum's family, earlier said the teenager was born in Britain and had never had a Bangladeshi passport.

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Main photo article Britain is duty-bound to let ISIS bride Shamima Begum return to the UK before deciding her punishment, her father has said.
Ahmed Ali admitted his daughter made mistakes when she fled east London for Syria in 2015, but stressed she is a British citizen who has every right to return.
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