Shamima Begum: Woman who joined ISIS as a teen loses challenge against the removal of her UK citizenship | CNN
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Shamima Begum, who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15, has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship, according to PA Media.

A woman who left the United Kingdom to join ISIS at the age of 15 has lost her Court of Appeal challenge over the decision to remove her British citizenship.

Shamima Begum flew to Syria in 2015 with two school friends to join the terror group. While there, she married an ISIS fighter and spent several years living in Raqqa.

Begum then reappeared in al-Hawl, a Syrian refugee camp, in 2019. She made international headlines as an “ISIS bride” after pleading with the UK government to be allowed to return to her home country for the birth of her son.

Then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid removed her British citizenship in February that year, and Begum’s newborn son died in a Syrian refugee camp the following month. She told UK media she had two other children prior to that baby, who also died in Syria during infancy.

  • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.mlEnglish
    577·
    10 months ago

    At least in my opinion, Hamas is the good guys. They are also labeled as an extremist group. So are we actually wrong to say ISIS is universally bad? I mean, both groups took power is response to foreign invaders just full on wrecking their shit constantly. Both groups employed Gorilla warfare to most effectively damage a far superior military. I’ve been recognizing more and more lately that America is almost always the bad guys in wars. So does that imply that ISIS was actually the good guys?

    • Municipal0379@lemmy.worldEnglish
      344·
      10 months ago

      Yeah……you need to go outside and touch some grass. Literally everything you just said is wrong.

      • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.mlEnglish
        542·
        10 months ago

        Damn, I really should have explicitly formulated that comment as a question asking whether my current beliefs are wrong, rather than stating incorrect opinions as a fact. Wait, hold on a second… I did do that!

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      76·
      10 months ago

      No no, man. Hamas is morally grey. ISIS is just bad. Like “gets declared kaffir by other Muslims” bad.

      If Hamas is the IRA during the troubles, ISIS is the Wehrmacht.

    • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      435·
      10 months ago

      You are kinda glossing over an awful lot of wholesale slaughter carried out on civilians. It doesn’t count as “guriella war” war when the people you are shooting are civilians, not soldiers.

      The state of Israel and the IDF are undertaking a colonial, genocidal war in Palestine. That doesn’t make Hamas the good guys.

    • sierraoscar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      10 months ago

      My dude, ISIS was literally burning people alive in cages. That’s not even the worst thing they’ve regularly done. They are literally evil incarnate.

      Hamas is not as bad but that’s really not saying much. They still actively want to commit genocide. ANYONE who openly calls for genocide is a piece of shit in my book.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      10 months ago

      ISIS and Hamas are entirely different.

      If anything ISIS seems like an israeli proxy created to destabilize other countries in the region and attack their government. ISIS never attacks israel. And recently they attacked Iran instead of israel which is very questionable.

      And ISIS treats their soldiers in israel… and receives money from israel…-.

      Hamas is not interested in attacking other countries or expanding their Lebensraum. Hamas is very comparable with the ANC in South Africa, or the IRA in the UK. Their people were oppressed and they started asking for their rights a little less nicely.

    • athos77@kbin.social
      72·
      10 months ago

      does that imply that ISIS was actually the good guys?

      For me, it comes down to how much damage the group does to the people under it’s control. ISIS and the Taliban seem to be rather brutal and repressive to the civilians, especially women: women must wear Islamic clothes, can’t go to school for long, can’t go out alone, etc etc. Admittedly I’m less familiar with Hamas, but I just haven’t seen stories of that kind of brutality from them.