Shamima Begum

Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

by Colin Yeo;  · 15 Feb 2020  · 393pp  · 102,801 words

been exiled on public good grounds.10 Source: FOI 38734; ‘HM Government Transparency Report 2018: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers’, July 2018. Until the case of Shamima Begum highlighted this trend in 2019, there was little or no public discussion.11 Begum was born in Britain and grew up in Britain, but aged

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technically still in force, the language is so antiquated that it is universally considered defunct. A new Treason Act would be needed. Whether or not Shamima Begum represents a threat to national security, her exile can be seen as opportunistic rather than principled. As a British citizen who was born and radicalised

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other country. Other British citizens who had acted in the same way could not be treated alike because their parents did not come from abroad. Shamima Begum is a member of a new category of second-class citizens who have family origins abroad, and it cannot be ignored that they are therefore

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, no. 326. 10 See for example ‘HM Government Transparency Report 2018: Disruptive and Investigatory Powers’, CM 9609. 11 ‘Shamima Begum: Isis Briton faces move to revoke citizenship’, The Guardian, 19 February 2019. 12 ‘Shamima Begum would face death penalty in Bangladesh, says minister’, The Guardian, 4 May 2019. 13 For example see ‘Thank God

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, Sajid Javid grasped Shamima Begum is the one person uniting Britain – against her’, Daily Telegraph, 19 February 2019. 14 For example see ‘Britain needs a new treason law to tackle

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returning jihadis’, Daily Telegraph, 17 February 2019, and ‘The evil of Shamima Begum’, Spiked Online, 11 February 2019. 15 ‘Secure Borders, Safe Haven Integration with Diversity in Modern Britain’, CM 5387, Home Office, February 2002. 16 Sajid Javid

Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists

by Joan Smith  · 5 Apr 2019

heading off for a half-term holiday or a study break to do some revision for their GCSEs. No one suspected that Amira Abase and Shamima Begum, both fifteen, and Khadiza Sultana, who was a year older, were about to give up everything – family, school, careers – to board a flight to Istanbul

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following in the footsteps of one of their closest friends, fifteen-year-old Sharmeena Begum (who shared the same surname but was no relation to Shamima Begum). Sharmeena was a vulnerable teenager who had suffered a series of tumultuous events in the year before she fled to Syria, from her mother’s

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believed she had been killed in a Russian air strike in May 2016. Her death was confirmed early in 2019 when another of the girls, Shamima Begum, was recognised in a refugee camp in Syria by a Times journalist following the collapse of the caliphate. By then aged nineteen and nine months

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146 ‘Isis Austrian poster girl Samra Kesinovic “used as sex slave” before being murdered for trying to escape’, Independent, 31 December 2015 147 ‘Isis bride Shamima Begum: “When I saw my first severed head it didn’t faze me at all” ’, The Times, 13 February 2019. 148 Landmark Cases: ‘Kunarac et al

Migrant City: A New History of London

by Panikos Panayi  · 4 Feb 2020

way to Syria in the second decade of the twenty-first century became radicalized in their London homes, including Mohammed Emwazi (Jihadi John)118 and Shamima Begum.119 REPRESENTATIVES Like their Victorian and Edwardian Marxist predecessors, the Islamists bombing London had global ties, which, in many cases, involved travelling to Pakistan and

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–216. 117. Guardian, 22 March 2017, 3 June 2017, 15 August 2018. 118. Robert Verkaik, Jihadi John: The Making of a Terrorist (London, 2016). 119. Shamima Begum’s story receives detailed coverage in The Times during February and March 2019. 120. Rai, 7/7; Leiken, Europe’s Angry Muslims; Report of the

Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain

by Ed Husain  · 9 Jun 2021  · 404pp  · 110,290 words

unable to tell a more compelling story of why Muslims should have a stake in maintaining Britain as a pluralistic, tolerant, secular democracy. After all, Shamima Begum and others went to fight for the slave-owning, people-beheading caliphate of ISIS, but when their caliphate collapsed it was telling that they sought

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

by Sathnam Sanghera  · 28 Jan 2021  · 430pp  · 111,038 words

on social networks, in endless talk of ‘second-generation immigrants’ (how can you be an immigrant if you were born here?), in the fact that Shamima Begum, one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015, could have her British citizenship casually removed by