ISIS bride Shamima Begum has abandoned her traditional Islamic clothing for Western pecans in her Syrian refugee camp – looking more like a toned British tourist, a striped T-shirt and a zippered sweater.
The ensemble of the 21-year-old from the Al Roj camp was in stark contrast to the black niqab he wore when he was found in 2019, when he expressed support for the terrorist group.
Begum is locked up in the detention camp after the UK Supreme Court unanimously rejected her request to return to the UK.
She shook hands with the Telegraph on Sunday, but politely declined to be interviewed, citing legal advice, although she agreed to be photographed.
Begum was only 15 when she and two other London schoolgirls traveled to Syria to join jihadists.
Her citizenship was revoked for national security reasons in 2019. The other two are believed to have been killed in battle.
He lost three children born in those years, the last boy born in 2019 after marrying an ISIS fighter from the Netherlands. That year, she told Sky News that her first two children had died of “disease” in a camp.
On Monday, a lawyer for her family accused Britain of racism in connection with her treatment, calling her a “tragic scapegoat”.
“What happened to Christian forgiveness? Doesn’t it apply to a woman – and one with dark skin? It seems that different rules apply, “said lawyer Tasnime Akunjee and sculptor Anish Kapoor in a joint statement, Agence France-Presse reported.
“Maybe some of us are more British than some of us?” Shamima is of Bangladeshi origin, does that change her right to British nationality? ” they said.
“I am tempted to believe that it is happening especially in light of the Supreme Court ruling,” the two added.
Kapoor – best known for his conceptual art installations – and Akunjee called the UK’s position “a shameful accusation of our national conscience”, suggesting that “four white schoolgirls” from a less ethnically diverse area outside London would be “undoubtedly” treated differently.
This is the “divide and rule”, the horror that has sustained the British Empire for 200 years. Have we regressed so far to practice this on the lawn? They asked.
Eight other British women also turned down interviews with the Telegraph on Sunday, with several citing legal advice.
Camp manager Nora Abdo said British women in the camp routinely turn down media inquiries based on legal advice, adding that they are behaving well and not causing problems.
Abdo told reporters that some women in the camp rejected extremist ideology.
“I noticed a change in their clothes,” she said. “They want to come home. They say they are ready to pay the penalty for their crimes. Some are thinking about the future of their children. ”