Shamima Begum: supreme court refuses to hear citizenship appeal

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1. Probably not the best time for her to pop back into the news…

2. Now that Bangladesh is about to become Iran 2.0 they will welcome her back with open arms.

3. Good. People can disagree all they want on the rights and wrongs of how she was treated but it was entirely legal and the courts have repeatedly affirmed this.

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5. The only reasonable and common sense reaction from goverment/system these days. Sun is shining.

6. Are people on Reddit going to say that the courts are wrong and stripping her of UK citizenship is actually illegal again like they did all the other times she lost her legal cases?

7. Im always surprised at the level of spite directed at someone who was deliberately groomed and radicalised as a literal minor.

   Being made stateless is cruel and unusual punishment, and the collective British psyche has a punitive streak a mile long.

8. As soon as she is back they will claim a legal precedent has been set and every other ISIS fighter who lost citizenship should come back.

   As soon as she and the others are in the country they will be in the Mosques making speeches that stop one tiny little full stop before praising ISIS and constantly on TV claiming everything is Islamophobic.

   People like her love the lifestyle in the UK and hate the social and political culture that makes it possible.

9. Imagine we tried to pull this ‘lol, we took her citizenship, she’s your problem now!’ on a country that wasn’t as fractured and struggling as Syria. Or if another country tried to pull that on us.

10. Funny. Our forces fought along side ISIS against the Syrian government but she is persona non grata for joining ISIS.

11. She was born in the UK, raised in the UK and she’s done probably one of the worst things anyone can do and her citizenship was revoked simply because she is eligible for Bangladeshi citizenship through her father, even though she’s never been there before…this is a dangerous precedent to set. This essentially is saying that she and any other first/second/third generation immigrant isn’t “British enough” that if they do something extremely bad they’re at risk of losing their citizenship. Hopefully labour does something about this.

12. Not surprised by this outcome but even so :

    – she was groomed at **15**.
    – has lost three children who all died young. 

    Anyone who thinks she needs to be punished should realise she’s likely been punished enough already without us lifting a finger.

13. Absolutely right, anyone who supports or has supported those scum deserve to never set foot in the uk

14. Pop the champagne. All the far right morons aside, this is about keeping us safe and expelling terrorists.

15. Hopefully we’ll no longer see her name pop up every now and then in the news. Good riddance.

16. Think it’s very nationalistic the way we deliberately tie Britishness to ideas of righteousness and good in this country, while also being something that can be stripped away on a whim if we have to take responsibility for a Briton’s actions.

    I also doubt we’ll ever see it be done to someone who is white, no matter what they may have done.

17. Why do so many redditors have sympathy for a terrorist lmao

18. From reading about it it’s pretty clear that it’s lawful under UK law but only because the courts don’t have the power to overturn a decision made by the government (in this case at least), because previous legislation gave the home office more extensive powers to do things like this. It’s possible that it never would have happened had she actually had a trial. It wasn’t a legal decision to remove her citizenship but a political one.

    Regardless, it does seem like she has been effectively made stateless (as Bangladesh won’t recognise her as a citizen), which is illegal – but I think it would have to go to an international body to make a decision? This whole saga will probably keep going on for years. The govt took away her citizenship because it could and because it wanted to appear tough on those that had gone to join IS, not because a fifteen year old girl was a real risk to national security. Personally, I think she’s the UK’s responsibility, and the removal of her citizenship was irresponsible.

19. Maybe we can just use the money we gave to Rwanda to make all U.K. criminals eligible for Rwandan citizenship. Then we can deport them all and strip them of their U.K. citizenship.

    That will help deal with the recent riots.

20. jesus christ could you imagine letting her back in during this riot period we’re in? the country would probably reach french levels of protesting.