Shamima Begum made her choice and Britain owes her nothing… we need to be honest about what bringing her back would mean
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WE should be getting used to the Americans meddling in our affairs, yet this one really stuck in the craw. Right-wing TV pundit turned junior Trump official Sebastian Gorka says Britain should take back Shamima Begum as a goodwill gesture. The ISIS poster girl, who was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019, is now a bored 25 year old rotting in a Syrian refugee camp and hopefully regretting her life choices.
![[Shamima Begum in a Syrian refugee camp.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1de336e8-b7da-4d45-a0cc-40a1c06374cd.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Inevitably, Mr Gorka has triggered another round of handwringing. But his lecture may have carried more weight had the US not held a dozen terrorists without trial for nearly 25 years now. That is not how we do things over here, so I would politely suggest he butts out.
![[Shamima Begum at Roj Camp in Syria.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bdc252bc-1eb9-4bf5-9d66-4a7f12f2c93c.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
For now, Labour are talking a good game. As the Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “She’s not a UK national. We will act in our security interests.”. Now I am not averse to us taking responsibility for innocents, but security is the nub of it. The truth is, we have already repatriated British orphans from the Syrian camps and put them into the care system.
These blighted terror tots, who found themselves in a living hell through no fault of their own, were successfully extracted by British troops. They were the children of our dead citizens who turned their back on the West to take the knee to a bloody death cult.
Many of these maniac mums and dads met their fate at the sharp end of an RAF Reaper drone, and rightly so. But their kids had no choice, and it is right that we have brought them back to whatever tiny chance they have to recover from the most horrific and cruel start in life.
