Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
As we have been unusually quiet on this subject I thought I would start off with the question is she a traitor or a victim as some see her.
I see her as a young woman, we all know that at 15 we understand right from wrong and can hold strong views that others might not agree with. She knowingly decided to support a group of foreign religious extremists who terrorised all who opposed them and supported and or backed bombings in this and other countries. This would have been labelled as treason in previous war situations.
From the reports I have seen she does not come across as the poor misjudged person that some believe she is. The cold way she describes the decapitated heads in bins as if that was in no way wrong struck me as frightening.
If or when she returns, as undoubtedly she will, I hope she ends up in court and is locked up for a long time.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I read the original interview in the Times and she came across as a cold fish with no sign of contrition.
The Home Secretary has said that she won't be allowed back in but if she was what could she be prosecuted for? Any crimes committed should be dealt with in the country where they were carried out in my view.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the hague would be a better place to try her.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
Not sure why there's a great fuss about this one. Returnees are not a new thing: around half (over 400) who left for IS have already been allowed back. It is, though, a great opportunity to manufacture a bit of outrage, sell a few papers and allow the school-kid Javid to blow hard.
Some facts about returnees to EU countries here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-47252164'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,848
You ain't seen nothing yet!
President Trump has told the UK and other European allies to take back and put on trial more than 800 Islamic State (IS) group fighters captured in the final battle against the group.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47269887"Shall we go, you and I, while we can? Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds"
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
Trump yet again sticking his nose where it is not needed but I suppose it takes the focus off his wall problems for a little while.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,823
interestingly it appears the US may be correct just this time.
maybe they should be tried in there own countries
this is another story that will go on and on
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
I can't see there is anything they can charge her with here in the UK. She claims that she was just a housewife living in the Caliphate and if she is not telling the truth it would be very difficult to get proof and/or witnesses. I suspect that other European countries are in the same boat hence not wanting to take their own ISIS fighters back.
It seems that the Home Secretary has been talking out of his bottom and we have to take her back so a suggestion from me would be have her interviewed then have her sectioned as unstable and hand the baby over to the grandparents.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Having just watched the interview with the poor misunderstood child on Sky News I suspect it's only a matter of time before there is a campaign for her face appears on a new £50 note. My heart bleeds. As a society we are ALL guilty.
(Where IS the emoticon for sarcasm?)
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Now here's a funny thing. Some low-life brother of two blokes who died fighting 'for an Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group in Syria' has been stabbed to death.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-47270417
The original tale merely stated that the 'Brighton teenager' had been 'in Syria with his two brothers to fight a "dictator". Surprised there was not a call for a statue to him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-27076266
So that's all right then.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,782
I have no sympathy at all for a dead drug dealer never mind who the rest of his family support.
From the Captain's first link....."Mr Deghayes, who was jailed in 2017 for drug dealing,"
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#12, Captain, the sarcasm one is:
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Tks. I now hear Shamima is booked for Bake Off.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,294
On a slightly wider point, how long are we going to be subjected to the media mutual back slapping/trying to “out-Begum” each other for finding her and getting an interview? Enough already!
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 2,979
Long may it continue: I'm enjoying the faux outrage, lame jokes, confusion about foreign-sounding names and, best of all, the herds of high-horses.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
I understand that the Home Secretary has today revoked her British citizenship.
Should open a right can of worms.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I bet she's as mad as a box of frogs.
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