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Shameless Shamima Begum moans she couldn’t watch Friends reunion inside ISIS camp
SHAMIMA Begum has moaned about not being able to watch the Friends reunion from her ISIS camp during an interview with British press.
The 21-year-old jihadi bride fled Britain to join the militant group in 2015, when she was 15, but says she was not a terrorist.
Shamima Begum said her favourite Friends character was Chandler[/caption]
The former ISIS member she still watches Friends[/caption]
The 21-year-old said she was a ‘dumb kid’ when she joined ISIS[/caption]
The Londoner fled her Beth Green home in 2015 to join ISIS[/caption]
Shamima is currently being held at the al-Roj camp in northern Syria[/caption]
In an interview with British journalist Andrew Drury, Shamima said she missed the Friends reunion.
“I wished I could have watched but I heard it wasn’t that great anyway,”she said.
She is currently being held at Al-Roj prison camp in Syria after she was stripped of her UK citizenship.
In her latest interview, Shamima told journalist Andrew Drury: “I don’t think I was a terrorist. I think I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake.”
She also added she does not need to be rehabilitated – but would like to help others with rehabilitation instead, the Daily Mail reports.
Shamima said: “I personally don’t think that I need to be rehabilitated, but I would want to help other people be rehabilitated. I would love to help.”
I don’t think I was a terrorist. I think I was just a dumb kid who made one mistake
Shamima Begum
When asked what she would say to people who do not want her to return to the UK, she said: “Can I come home please, pretty please?”
The ex-jihadi bride has also started wearing Western-style clothes, including jeans and baseball caps.
She explained: “I wear these clothes, and I don’t wear a hijab, because it makes me happy. And anything in this camp that makes me happy is like a lifesaver.”
Shamima said in the camp she enjoys listening to Kanye West’s music and followed the news of his divorce from Kim Kardashian – and she even watched re-runs of Friends.
The former ISIS bride with journalist Andrew Drury[/caption]
Shamima says she doesn’t need to be rehabilitated[/caption]
Shamima at Al-Roj prison camp in Syria[/caption]
Shamima had her British citizenship stripped by then Home Secretary Sajid Javid in 2019[/caption]
The Londoner recently spoke in a new documentary, The Return: Life After ISIS, claiming she and her friends were recruited online, the Mail Online reported.
She said she was “young and naive” when she decided to leave the UK and join ISIS.
She added: “I knew it was a big decision, but I just felt compelled to do it quickly. I didn’t want to be the friend that was left behind.”
Shamima said recruiters preyed on the guilt they felt at seeing Muslims suffer in the Syrian conflict.
A filmmaker who met her at a refugee camp in Syria last year said she is not a threat to anyone, but is broken and needs help.
Can I come home please, pretty please?
Shamima Begum
Spanish director Alba Sotorra told The Times: “In the beginning, Shamima was like a ghost just sitting there, covered, lifeless, like a marionette, a doll.”
He added: “Her lack of ability to express her feelings made me feel deeply sad for her.
“Then, maybe two or three months after I met her, we had this game with the kids.
“The kids were playing with kites. Shamima was always very silent.
“And she sat on one of these carts watching. I saw a teardrop fall from her eye. It was the first time.”
Begum was 15 when she left Britain to join ISIS in Syria[/caption]
Shamima gave birth to three children in Syria but all of them died.
In a documentary, which was shot in 2019, she said that after the death of her third child, a son, she stayed up all night with his body.
She said: “He was my last hope, he was the only thing keeping me alive. I didn’t know how.
“That day I just cried for all my children. I cried for all of them. No one could help me, no one could do anything.”
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Shamima was defeated in her legal battle to return to the UK for a court appeal over the removal of her British citizenship earlier this year.
The Supreme Court uninamously ruled in favour of the Government and said Shamima cannot come back to the UK for a court case to reclaim her British passport for the safety of the public.
Delivering the ruling, Lord Reed savaged a previous judgement by the Court of Appeal and said it had “made its own assessment of the requirements of [national] security” without any “relative evidence”.
She insisted she was ‘young and naive’ when she joined the militant group[/caption]
