Shamima Begum boasted that severed heads didn’t faze her after joining ISIS death cult – she deserves no home in Britain
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IN 2015, Shamima Begum left her friends, her family and her future in East London and boarded a plane to Turkey. Her final destination was Syria, and her intention to join ISIS, a jihadi death cult. Over the next few years, ISIS raped and murdered their way across the Middle East.
![[Shamima Begum, a young woman in a niqab, sits on a bench.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/shamima-begum-19-former-bethnal-655685701_823ed3.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
As their barbaric wave of extremism and beheadings spread, Shamima chose to remain a part of it. She chose to stay. Begum may have started a child. But she became a criminal. And she chose to remain with ISIS until they had been driven back, and lost all of their Middle Eastern territories in 2019.
![[Shamima Begum at Roj Camp in Syria.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2015-photographed-roj-camp-currently-797744602_6af0c6.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
When a reporter finally found her in a Syrian refugee camp, she told him that she ‘didn’t regret coming here’. She described how the first severed head she had seen didn’t faze her at all, as it belonged to an ‘enemy of Islam’, before telling the reporter that she wanted to return to the UK.
![[Shamima Begum in an interview from al-Roj prison camp in Syria.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/itv-advised-video-grabs-used-786103533.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Thankfully, that never happened. Then Home Secretary Sajid Javid made good on the decision she had made in 2015, and every year of the fighting since, by stripping her of her British citizenship and blocking her return. He said at the time that he would not hesitate to remove someone’s nationality if it was the only option left to him to protect those living in the UK.
![[Map of Syria showing control areas of different groups after Assad's fall.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KS_MAP_SYRIA090125-01-4.jpg?strip=all&w=698)
It was the right call then. It would be the right call now. That’s why I was surprised that last week, Nigel Farage softened his position on Begum and those like her, saying that he was ‘thoughtful’, and that he didn’t ‘classify her as… an all-out ISIS killer.’.
