Find it astounding that people can talk about the Rotherham girls of the same age being groomed and no one sane says “they knew what they were doing”. But the exact same thing with this girl and it’s “fuck her she knew what was what”. The hypocrisy is ridiculous.
She’s our mess. She’s a UK citizen. You can’t just wash your hands of people and leave them to war torn countries to look after.
String her up, lock her away, throw cabbages at her for life if you want. But the attitudes here are disgraceful IMO, both from a child protection and global politics standpoint.
Maybe she's not and never has been mentally fit to make these decisions for herself, and why she was able to be recruited to extremism. That is another kettle of fish and arguably one that her lawyers may argue in the future too.
But on the face of it for me at least the issue is her lack of remorse since. When she left I did feel they were impressionable schoolgirls who'd been hoodwinked into a cause and once there the reality would set it and they'd realise it'd been a terrible mistake.
That doesn't appear to be the case with her. She still seems absolutely fine with the ideals of ISIS, Islamic extremism and the barbaric rules and methods of enforcement they use. This is a danger to the public. If she wasn't a UK citizen (which she now isn't by the sounds of it) would you be suggesting we let her in? I agree it's not fair to let a war-torn poverty stricken country deal with her, but it's not like Syria is blameless.
If she'd done the interviews and said things like "sorry" "I made a mistake" "they're just barbaric" "I want to help fight extremism and stop other people getting caught up in it" then I'd be more than happy to say let her back in, question her and obtain as much information as possible etc. and let her try to piece her life back together. But she didn't, so it's on her. If by the age of 19 you don't know that chopping peoples heads off for not agreeing with you is totally unacceptable you're never going to get it.
