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British IS schoolgirl 'wants to return home'

One my kids teachers used to be her tutor . They were not aware of anything amiss with her before she skipped the country
Except the school was asked to warn the parents because one of their previous pupils had gone to Iraq and was grooming her friends to join her, they gave the girls letters to bring home to their parents these three girls didn't being those letters home. Instead of posting those letters directly to the parents they gave them to young children being groomed by Isis recruiters and pedophiles.
 
Quite.



So we are absolutely clear that her birth was registered at the Bangladeshi consulate.

You have evidence of this...?

No, we're absolutely clear that, under Bangladeshi law, registration is not required for citizenship by desent where a parent is themselves a citizen by place of birth.

5. Subject to the provisions of section 3 a person born after the commencement of this Act, shall be a citizen of Bangladesh by descent if his 4[ father or mother] is a citizen of Bangladesh at the time of his birth: [then it goes on to set out a requirement for registration only in cases where the parent is Bangladeshi by desent, rather than place of birth]

I.e. because her parents are Bangladeshis born in Bangladesh, she was Bangladeshi from birth. Whereas, her children would only have been Bangladeshi on registration (because their mother was Bangladeshi by desent, rather then by virtue of being born in Bangladesh).

It's all covered in the judgements.
 
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No, we're absolutely clear that, under Bangladeshi law, registration is not required for citizenship by desent where a parent is themselves a citizen by place of birth. It's all covered in the judgements.

5. Subject to the provisions of section 3 a person born after the commencement of this Act, shall be a citizen of Bangladesh by descent if his 4[ father or mother] is a citizen of Bangladesh at the time of his birth: [then it goes on to set out a requirement for registration only in cases where the parent is Bangladeshi by desent, rather than place of birth]
I remember finding this quite useful when I first read it:

Bangladeshi or Stateless? A Practical Analysis of Shamima Begum’s Status
 
I think the nub of the issue is that people are mistaking law, ethics and safety .

The Supreme Court says this is lawful. Personally I feel safer knowing she is not in the UK. Nowhere do I argue that either of these is the ‘ethically right’ outcome.

But there isn’t one. I’m slightly more in favour of the rights of 15 year old women to go to shit pop concerts without being maimed or killed than to go and support a feudal apartheid Caliphate and then, a few years later when said theocracy has been bombed into a few camps, pop back, do three three years inside and then cost the public sector probably the same as a medium size secondary school English or Langauge departmrnt to monitor indefinitely. But I’m not saying that makes me a good person.
 
i think they'd imbibe fewer bad ideas from begum
No, cos Bojo would wave you off, send your child to bed and then get one of his mistresses round to shag on your sofa after drinking all your good scotch and eating half the contents of your fridge. Then he’d try to screw you for extra pay and taxi fare for being home seven minutes after midnight...
 
You do know the same government that is making an example of this woman has also presided over 100,000 preventable deaths in the past year right?

But as long as you feel safe.
I reackon it will probably be closer to 150,000 preventable deaths. And they are’t gripping any long term IS solution for the camps so stacking up trouble for later. Also Bojo’s a cunt. What do any of those things have to do with this?

Also where do I say I feel safe?I say consistently I feel more safe with her there than I would here. That isnu the same thing.

Whilst you’re on why not tell us what your solution is?
 
Given they're often posited as the alternative I'm interested to read some stuff on the effectiveness of the de-radicalisation programs, as what I've heard from what other people have read, and the little I've read myself, is that they're not very effective at all.
 
No, cos Bojo would wave you off, send your child to bed and then get one of his mistresses round to shag on your sofa after drinking all your good scotch and eating half the contents of your fridge. Then he’d try to screw you for extra pay and taxi fare for being home seven minutes after midnight...
He'd read to the child from Priti Patel's book of horrors
 
I reackon it will probably be closer to 150,000 preventable deaths. And they are’t gripping any long term IS solution for the camps so stacking up trouble for later. Also Bojo’s a cunt. What do any of those things have to do with this?

Just have a look round at who you're agreeing with is all I ask. You're agreeing with a state run by mass murderers about who is or is not an existential threat to you.
 
Given they're often posited as the alternative I'm interested to read some stuff on the effectiveness of the de-radicalisation programs, as what I've heard from what other people have read, and the little I've read myself, is that they're not very effective at all.
This is an article about Kazakhstan. They are probably the world leaders in this wrt ISIS returnees. Too early to tell how effective this programme is going to be, but it appears a well-thought-out scheme, one that balances the need for maintaining security with the desire to help and truly change people. It makes an interesting distinction between disengagement from violence and true deradicalisation - letting go of the belief system - which is harder to achieve.

As much as governments and the public want to be protected against terrorism, most don’t want security considerations to dominate every aspect of society and life, and they don’t want the fear of terrorism to quash humanitarian responses and human rights. Many governments and civil society organizations also want to appropriately and accurately distinguish between terrorists and their victims while acknowledging that some persons returning from the Islamic State may have been both. Many countries support using psychological and social means to help returnees and other vulnerable persons to avoid falling prey to extremism and violence.

The activity currently taking place on the steppes of Kazakhstan aims to build a model that strikes the right balance between governmental and non-governmental actors, between security and human rights, and between a focus on social and psychological drivers and one that primarily targets ideology.

Rehabilitating the Islamic State’s Women and Children Returnees in Kazakhstan
 
This is an article about Kazakhstan. They are probably the world leaders in this wrt ISIS returnees. Too early to tell, mostly, exactly how effective this programme is going to be, but it appears a well-thought-out scheme, one that balances the need for maintaining security with the desire to help and truly change people. It makes an interesting distinction between disengagement from violence and true deradicalisation - letting go of the belief system - which is harder to achieve.



Rehabilitating the Islamic State’s Women and Children Returnees in Kazakhstan

Thanks. What made me think about it was I was talking to a clinical psychologist who was saying that there's increasing research that shows the programs designed for pedophile rehabilitation are increasingly shown not to work, and in some instances even encourage the behaviour and enable them to do things like exchange methods of evading detection. Various suggestions as to why this might be, just thought there might be some interesting possible similarities.
 
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This is an article about Kazakhstan. They are probably the world leaders in this wrt ISIS returnees. Too early to tell how effective this programme is going to be, but it appears a well-thought-out scheme, one that balances the need for maintaining security with the desire to help and truly change people. It makes an interesting distinction between disengagement from violence and true deradicalisation - letting go of the belief system - which is harder to achieve.



Rehabilitating the Islamic State’s Women and Children Returnees in Kazakhstan
You say it's too early to tell how well this programme works but you rely on a 2019 article when there's this Could Kazakhstan Efforts to Repatriate Foreign Fighters Be a Model? from a month ago (other more recent articles available)

People were talking about a need for rehabilitating women like sb seven years ago (eg Female Members of ISIS on JSTOR) so it's rather dispiriting but predictable that a considered solution to this issue hasn't been arrived at
 
Thanks. What made me think about it was I was talking to a clinical psychologist who was saying that there's increasing research that shows the programs designed for pedophile rehabilitation are increasing shown to not work, but in some instances even encourage the behaviour and enable them to do things like exchange methods of evading detection. Various suggestions as to why this might be, just thought there might be some interesting possible similarities.
An aspect of the Kazakh programme that I like is that they appear very willing to change their programme as they go. They seem to have a certain humility as they don't start off assuming they know how to do this. At the very least, that seems the right attitude to have.

In lectures and discussions with the staffs of these centers, I have shared the experiences of other programs that have shown it is often more feasible to get individuals to relinquish active support for violent action (disengagement) than it is to persuade them to relinquish their belief system (deradicalization).

The rehabilitation and reintegration practitioners in Kazakhstan are working by trial and error but learning lessons every day that they want to share. In turn, they are eager to receive advice from foreign specialists, even when the specialists come from countries such as the United States that have not had nearly as many returnees.
 
An aspect of the Kazakh programme that I like is that they appear very willing to change their programme as they go. They seem to have a certain humility as they don't start off assuming they know how to do this. At the very least, that seems the right attitude to have.
Maybe your opinion might be weightier if you read articles about the scheme published this decade
 
Has anyone offered evidence to show she was groomed into this? It keeps getting repeated along with the insistence of conferring victim status on her.

I just don't remember all this fuss when Alex Koti had his nationality taken away. Which does seem to have been illegally done. Where as here we have a lot of handringing about this young woman and dismissal of Bangladeshi law, as not being proper in some way.

Maybe that's all part of the sexism and racism too?
 
Has anyone offered evidence to show she was groomed into this? It keeps getting repeated along with the insistence of conferring victim status on her.

I just don't remember all this fuss when Alex Koti had his nationality taken away. Which does seem to have been illegally done. Where as here we have a lot of handringing about this young woman and dismissal of Bangladeshi law, as not being proper in some way.

Maybe that's all part of the sexism and racism too?
Never mind the sexism and racism, I'm surprised by hmg's attitude on the grounds of pragmatism alone, it being better to keep an eye on sb and women in her position rather than let them sit out among daesh loons and wait for someone to find something for her to do
 
So what would you do?

I'm not in charge. If I was, if I was a supreme court judge or a government minister, I hope I would act in a way that made people less, rather than more likely to end up hating the society they were born in. I hope I would see such a high-profile case as an opportunity to make an example of kindness and mercy.

And I'm sure the string-her-up contingent here will find that hilarious.
 
145 pages!
Has anyone got the list or definition of what offences can cause a dual citizen to lose their Uk citizenship?
If it’s pretty clearly ‘don’t join an enemy army’ then that’s reassuring.
 
Never mind the sexism and racism, I'm surprised by hmg's attitude on the grounds of pragmatism alone, it being better to keep an eye on sb and women in her position rather than let them sit out among daesh loons and wait for someone to find something for her to do

When she first appeared she was in a camp controlled and administered by Kurdish, virulently anti-IS groups in an area where IS were completely defeated. The IS people were very definitely under control - she was, as far as HMG was concerned, secure. Unfortunately, several years on and the situation has changed - IS structures have effectively taken control of the internal management of the camps, though they are still in Kurdish controlled territory, IS have very much reasserted themselves as an insurgent/terrorist group in the wider area.

HMG is pursuing a less than perfect policy because there are no perfect policies available.
 
When she first appeared she was in a camp controlled and administered by Kurdish, virulently anti-IS groups in an area where IS were completely defeated. The IS people were very definitely under control - she was, as far as HMG was concerned, secure. Unfortunately, several years on and the situation has changed - IS structures have effectively taken control of the internal management of the camps, though they are still in Kurdish controlled territory, IS have very much reasserted themselves as an insurgent/terrorist group in the wider area.

HMG is pursuing a less than perfect policy because there are no perfect policies available.

Almost as if leaving a bunch of readymade IS reinforcements lying around in the care of people with little capacity to do anything with them was a shit idea or something.
 
I'm not in charge. If I was, if I was a supreme court judge or a government minister, I hope I would act in a way that made people less, rather than more likely to end up hating the society they were born in. I hope I would see such a high-profile case as an opportunity to make an example of kindness and mercy.

And I'm sure the string-her-up contingent here will find that hilarious.

Not hilarious, just naive. The idea that these people - who cook babies alive and feed them to their mothers (women they'd already gang-raped, after beheading their sons in front of them) - would see the error of their ways from your turn-the-other-cheek example is laughable. They'd still despite you and everything for which you stand; all you'd achieve is giving them the opportunity to act on that.
 
145 pages!
Has anyone got the list or definition of what offences can cause a dual citizen to lose their Uk citizenship?
If it’s pretty clearly ‘don’t join an enemy army’ then that’s reassuring.

It doesn't work like that. The HS has to be satisfied that deprivation of British citizenship is 'conducive to the public good' - which could cover a multitude of sins!
 
Not hilarious, just naive. The idea that these people - who cooked babies alive and fed them to their mothers (women they'd already gang-raped, after beheading their sons in front of them) - would see the error of their ways from your turn-the-other-cheek example is laughable. They'd still despite you and everything for which you stand; all you'd achieve is giving them the opportunity to act on that.




Yes, much better to have them wandering the UK's streets, planning God-knows-what. :rolleyes:

Leaving them to wander the streets, as suggested by nobody.
 
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