Shamima Begum

I agree, she is British and she should be brought back to the UK. I've not got much sympathy for her, she was showing no remorse up until the point where she started fighting to be brought back. But she's British and she should be treated as such.

Who wants to live Nextdoor to her? Have kids in the same class? Have the people she will consider friends on your street etc?

She was a child, there are children who commit horrific crimes than cannot be forgiven just because of age.

The time for her to return to the UK and the rest of us not be at an increased risk is a long time gone.

If she was white, blonde and middle class she would have been back in the UK years ago.

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Is there intelligence/allegations about her role in ISIS and whether she inflicted harm on others (including other women?)

I agree with you OP. I don't think this punishment in line with punishments for other people who actually fought with isis. And I don't think it's right that in the UK, you can be effectively punished your entire life for actions committed when you were 15. The 'she made her bed now she has to lie in it' doesn't apply for life foe any other crime committed by a 15 year old

She’s definitely a scapegoat but not enough people really care that much because she isn’t particularly likeable.

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Bangladesh have said that she is not eligible for citizenship, and she would not be allowed in. She is stateless.

I feel so sorry for her. She was a child and has been through so much. She should be allowed back.

Especially young Muslim men who are being told they're not welcome here. It pushes them into their open arms

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Leave her there. She's being treated a lot better than the people she condones the murder of.

Trouble is she’s the poster girl for punishment. I understand that other women, and plenty of men (obviously) have made their way back from Isis, and other terrorist organisations, but without the fanfare.

She also is composed, and not crying and beating her breast with shame and remorse, which is what society seems to demand.

Of course she should be returned to stand trial, and then the key thrown away, if necessary. She is, rather unfortunately admittedly, a citizen of the UK.

Ironically I can help but think that growing up in a U.K. with racist riots going on is likely to push more youngsters into the hands of radical groomers

What she did is irrelevant. Yes she should keep her British citizenship. It is a basic tenet of international law that you cannot make a person stateless which is that the UK government has decided to do. To do so is utterly irreponsible.

Her age and what she may or may not have done is irrelevant. She is (was) a British citizen and as such is our responsibility. If she committed crimes then bring her back and put her on trial for those crimes.

Im on the fence.

On the one hand, she was 15 and groomed. However, unlike others in that situation she doesn't appear to have learnt anything and doesn't appear able to reflect on what she's done. If she did, I'd be more sympathetic.

Do you really think that with people from ISIS presumably looking on while she is interviewed she will be free to slag them off and say how stupid it is to actually join them?

What would happen to her after the cameras stopped recording if she said the wrong thing? These are not kind people who will offer comfort and solutions.

I got involved with Christian fundies in my teens, and suffered greatly for it. I was an idealistic kid who didn't like the way the world was going, and when someone came along with an alternative vision that sounded appealing, I jumped in and gave it my all.

She's done something pretty similar. It's had far worse consequences for her, but I see a lot of me in her, and as such think she's been treated abominably badly. I think she deserves another chance.

She admitted a lot of it, practically bragged about it in interviews.

she was groomed and trafficked. And I understand that there were opportunities to prevent her and her friends leaving the country, which were purposefully not taken. I find that unforgivable in the case of minors being permitted to travel abroad without their families' knowledge or consent.

I have no idea whether she is a 'good' person or what her personal beliefs now are but she should never have been made stateless.

Do you say that about all teenage girls who are victims of grooming?

What evidence do you have for this?

She stayed willingly when she was an adult, she saw peoples heads being put in bins and didn't care, she helped fit people with suicide bombs, she only wanted to come back after ISIS was pretty much defeated, she would have happily stayed there helping them otherwise. I feel sorry for the child she was, not for the adult she became and I don't want her back in the UK, possibly stirring up hatred.

This. THEY should of brought her back much sooner as well.

Who did she kill?

I agree, OP. She should be brought back and monitored, with rehabilitation.

I don't care what anyone thinks of me saying that. She was a child (15?) when she went out. Since then she has been forced into terrible marriages and all three of her babies have died.