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British IS schoolgirl 'wants to return home'

editor said:
Have you watched it? I don't think I can muster up 90 mins of interest for the programme unless enough people tell me it's really worth watching.
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Yea, it's unreal.

I didn't follow the story at all but I'll bet even people who think they know everything don't. I find it difficult to think anyone could watch it and not feel some sympathy for her. The level of trauma she's experienced is beyond what most of us could comprehend and her interviews need to be considered in that context.

Fuck knows why she hasn't killed herself.
 
Definitely worth a watch and agree it’s hard not to sympathise with someone who made such a catastrophic decision at such a young age. There are missing pieces though, things I didn’t believe and a strange disconnect that I found a little uncomfortable. But yh, she’s been through the wringer since she was 15. Wasn’t expecting her Dutch ISIS hubby to be interviewed too, which was interesting; weird so many young people from all the world deciding the caliphate was the answer. And I get the impression she knows she’s not coming back to the UK, which must be hard to face.
 
It was an excellent doco. The guy spent a year making it.

There were moments of sympathy for her. But overall she just comes across as pretty dim. The government's argument that she prevents a risk to the british public is absolute nonsense. We aren't talking Bin Laden here.
 
I get that it would have set a dangerous precedent. Theres many more less high profile cases who would have been watching this closely and would argue that if she's allowed back in why arent they. But it's still very sad to see.
 
Oh well how sad never mind.

Maybe all these concerned people can focus on helping the thousands of people (some just on our doorstep in Calais) who didnt make catastrophic and selfish life choices but whose lives have still been ruined since 2015. Oh wait they dont happen to be British so who cares right?
 
Petcha said:
I get that it would have set a dangerous precedent. Theres many more less high profile cases who would have been watching this closely and would argue that if she's allowed back in why arent they. But it's still very sad to see.
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The dangerous precedent was set when her youth and Bangladeshi ancestry were weaponised against her to take away her UK citizenhsip.
 
Riklet said:
Oh well how sad never mind.

Maybe all these concerned people can focus on helping the thousands of people (some just on our doorstep in Calais) who didnt make catastrophic and selfish life choices but whose lives have still been ruined since 2015. Oh wait they dont happen to be British so who cares right?
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But Wat about are OWN BRITLISH homeless/?

Come on you know perfectly well this is a shit false equivalency. Don't be that person.
 
Latest interview with her shows fuck all remorse even when the words she speaks are supposed to make that impression she makes little effort to feign authenticity
No doubt further appeals will be bankrolled by the shitheads and idiots who can't resist defending anyone that gets a hard time from right wing cunts just because
 
Or... it doesn't matter what she is like. Weaponising her youth and ethnicity against her was wrong and this kind of misuse of power by government needs to be opposed. You don't only oppose it when you like the person who's fallen victim of such actions.
 
I've watched the BBC documentary and have been listening to the podcast and it's really hard to deny that she was groomed and sex-trafficked - it's really disgusting and beyond belief how a child, a girl, who made a very very stupid mistake, can be treated like this. She's also lost three children in the process - but through it all she really refuses to act like a victim or feel sorry for herself - would it be different if she was crying her eyes out in despair?

A sad day for the British government, and obviously for Shamima. People are too quick to judge before even getting her side of the story.
 
girasol said:
I've watched the BBC documentary and have been listening to the podcast and it's really hard to deny that she was groomed and sex-trafficked - it's really disgusting and beyond belief how a child, a girl, who made a very very stupid mistake, can be treated like this. She's also lost three children in the process - but through it all she really refuses to act like a victim or feel sorry for herself - would it be different if she was crying her eyes out in despair?

A sad day for the UK government.
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Was she 15 when she left? Seems a weird stance for the government to take. Putting the grooming issue aside (which it shouldn’t be), legally we’re seen as unable to make loads of decisions relating to body autonomy and/or significant life changes
when we’re under the age of 16 years old. But she’s seen as competent in making the decision as a minor to leave the UK to join ISIS… :hmm:
 
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