ISIS’s bride, Shamima Begum, has abandoned her traditional Islamic attire for Western doubts in her Syrian refugee camp: she looks more like a toned British tourist, a striped T-shirt and a zipped sweater.
The 21-year-old’s ensemble in the Al Roj camp contrasts with the black niqab she was wearing when she was found in 2019, when she expressed support for the terrorist group.
Begum is trapped in the detention camp after the UK Supreme Court unanimously rejected her request to return to Britain.
She shook hands with the Telegraph on Sunday, but politely declined to be interviewed, citing legal advice, although she agreed to be photographed.
Begum was only 15 when she and two other schoolgirls from London traveled to Syria to join the jihadists.
Their citizenship was revoked for national security reasons in 2019. The other two are believed to have died during the fighting.
He has lost three children born in recent years, the latest a child born in 2019 after marrying an ISIS fighter from the Netherlands. That year he told Sky News that his first two children died “of illness” in a camp.
On Monday, a lawyer for her family accused Britain of racism for its treatment, calling it a “tragic scapegoat”.
“What happened to Christian forgiveness? Doesn’t it apply to a woman and a dark-skinned one? Different rules seem to apply, “lawyer Tasnime Akunjee and sculptor Anish Kapoor said in a joint statement, the Agence França-Presse reported.
“Is it possible that some of us are more British than others? Shamima is of Bangladeshi origin, does this change his right to British nationality? “they said.
“I am tempted to think that it does so mostly in light of the Supreme Court ruling,” the two added.
Kapoor – well known for his conceptual art installations – and Akunjee called the UK’s stance “a shameful accusation of our national conscience”, suggesting that “no doubt” it would be four young white schoolgirls. ”From a less ethnically diverse area outside London. .
“This is ‘dividing and governing’, the horror that the British Empire maintained for 200 years. Have we stepped back to practice it now on the domestic turf?” They asked.
Eight other British women also turned down interviews with the Telegraph on Sunday, and several cited legal advice.
Camp director Nora Abdo said British women in the camp routinely reject media requests based on legal advice, adding that they are well-behaved and do not cause problems.
Abdo told the media that some women in the camp have rejected extremist ideology.
“We’ve noticed the change in her clothes,” she said. “They want to go home. They say they are prepared to pay the punishment for their crimes. Some are thinking about the future of their children.