Shamima Begum has no remorse
We need to hear less from her
“I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake.” Shamima Begum thinks she was a normal teenager. Wearing a baseball cap, skinny jeans and white t-shirt, looking – and sounding – every inch the trendy young Londoner, she tells interviewer Andrew Drury that she was simply “really naive” when she left Britain to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) aged 15.
Let’s face it, we all did dumb stuff when we were young. I took up smoking and nicked a lipstick from a posh department store. As for being ‘really naive’? Well, getting drunk and cycling home the wrong way down a dual carriageway probably wasn’t a great idea. But running away to join a murderous, jihadist cult? Sorry Shamima, that’s not relatable.