The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been accused of giving terrorists a platform following the release of a new 10-part podcast with former British national Shamima Begum. Many are questioning why the BBC is using taxpayers’ money to promote the account of a known jihadist who abandoned Britain to join the Islamic State death cult.
FRONTPAGE MAG – Hugh Fitzgerald (h/t Nita) Shamima Begum is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants to the U.K. She fled the U.K. in 2015 with two other Muslim girls to join the Islamic State death cult in Syria and, following its demise, sought to return to Britain. Her citizenship was revoked by then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid, a decision that was upheld on appeal to Britain’s top court in February 2021.
Inspired by tales of Islamic State fighters decapitating Infidels, Begum immediately set out with two classmates from school to join the paradise on earth being created by her Muslim soul mates in the Islamic State. She later told a British journalist that she had no qualms or doubts about that practice of decapitating enemies; it was a matter, she said, “of Islam.” When asked in an interview with Sky News in 2019 if she was aware of beheadings conducted by IS, Begum replied: “Yeah, I knew about those things, and I was okay with it… In Islam, that is allowed. So I was okay with it.”
A week after she arrived in Islamic State territory, she married an ISIS fighter and had the first of three children she was to have by her ISIS husband. All three died in childbirth. More on the hapless, hopeless, morally moronic Shamima Begum, who is now trying to be allowed back into the U.K. can be found here: “British public broadcaster gives platform to banished jihadi bride Shamima Begum with 10-part podcast,” by Thomas Brooke, ReMix News, January 11, 2023: In other words, the BBC will have aided and abetted her efforts to make us forget her involvement in crimes, including the genocidal attempt by the Islamic State to wipe out the Yazidis.
Begum’s attorneys have argued that she was not a citizen of Bangladesh, so that stripping her of her British citizenship would leave her “stateless.” But the judges of Britain’s High Court did not agree; they insisted that held dual citizenship, and would not be made stateless by the action taken by the U.K. Home Office. They upheld the revocation.
The BBC is now promoting a 10-part podcast with the former ISIS bride, who married Dutch convert Yago Riedijk in an Islamic ceremony in Syria back in 2015. However, the broadcaster has come under fire from many on social media who accuse it of giving a platform to a known terrorist.
Wasiq Wasiq, a fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, tweeted: “While the victims of grooming gangs are still trying to be heard and get justice, Shamima Begum manages to land 10-part podcast on the BBC.
“The BBC has used license fee payers’ money on giving terrorist Shamima Begum a podcast in which she says ‘I’m so much more than ISIS,’” commented the Defund the BBC campaign, which called on Brits to “switch to on-demand and stop paying this anti-British corporation.”
Diane Abbott is wrong. Shamima Begum was not a “desperate groomed teenager.” No one “groomed” or inveigled Begum to leave Britain and join the Islamic State. She told an English journalist that she had gone of her own volition. On February 13, 2019, The Times’ war correspondent Anthony Loyd found Begum at the al-Hawl refugee camp in Northern Syria. He reported that she wanted to return to the UK to raise her child, but did not regret her decision to join ISIS. She said she had been unfazed by seeing the head of a beheaded man as he was “an enemy of Islam,” but believes that the Islamic State did not deserve victory because of its corruption and oppression.
Come again? Yes, you heard right. Shamima Begum did not regret joining the Islamic State; she still supported the decapitation of “enemies of Islam.” What bothered her were not the mass murders, some by beheading, of Yazidis, Christians, and Shi’a Muslims, nor the mass rapes of Yazidi women and girls. All of that was fine; she was “unfazed.”
What did disturb her was the “corruption” and “oppression ”of ISIS. The “corruption” meant that ISIS leaders helped themselves to whatever property they had seized from the Infidels they had killed or driven out. By “oppression,” Shamima Begum meant the mistreatment of their own women and girls by Islamic State fanatics; something she was not prepared to endure.
At the time of the revocation of Begum’s citizenship, Sajid Javid told the House of Commons the decision was “morally right, absolutely right, but also legally correct and the right one to protect the British people.
“I won’t go into details of the case, but what I will say is that you certainly haven’t seen what I saw,” he told lawmakers, adding: “If you did know what I knew, because you are sensible, responsible people, you would have made exactly the same decision – of that I have no doubt.”
Sajid Javid no doubt knows far more than he is revealing, about Shamima Begum’s activities in the ISIS-supporting phase of her wretched existence. Perhaps she watched with pleasure, or just possibly, took part herself in the sexual abuse of Yazidi girls. There is something in her Islamic State past that Sajid Javid feels must not be made public, but that has convinced him that under no conditions must she be allowed back into Britain.
Former Intelligence Officer Phillip Ingram warns that Begum most certainly has “blood on her hands”.
Hartmut says
Good thing is her careless talk risks her neck, which is returning to Britain in this case.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
All i want to do to her is that someone holds her down and i will let her meet mr. rat just like the vietcong (a vet knows) did then only the best is good enough for her.
Az gal says
This one and that other Muslum bitch Hoda, think we are stupid enough to fall for “I want to teach against extremism” BS. This one even ditched her garbage bag & lost weight she is so desperate to get on welfare in the UK. Don’t believe for a minute she or any Muslum had a problem with “corruption” supposedly meaning ISIS taking booty from “infidels”- that is very Islamic. Ya, she us supposed to have been on the ISIS women police force. You know what that means.
Stewart - South Africa says
Good to hear that she will be “okay with it” if someone took her head!
allanivarsson says
Expel her permanently from the West.
Jack Rider says
Her desire to return to the U.K. is not based on a new found rejection of ISIS’ jihadist savagery but simply on her desire to re-situate herself within the UK’s comfortable taxpayer supported welfare state. As said, she was unfazed by the beheadings. It was all accepted as part of her religion. Nothing to reject there! And her disappointment with ISIS’ corruption is part of her lies. She benefited from that system. She was supported by that system when her paramours went to fight and died. She is brainwashed and stupid enough to think that that may be offered as an acceptable explanation for her claimed desire to leave Syria and return to the U.K.
Me 'at the burning mosque' says
Thank goodness I don’t pay the British Bullshit Corporation’s television tax.
Back in ’94 the last person from their “pay up or else” department who turned up at my door asking why not, soon left pretty rapidly when I showed him the business end of my (legally owned, I might add) double- barrelled shotgun.
Owning my own farm was hard work back then but those special days made it all worthwhile. Now happily retired, just watching the world go to hell in a handbasket.
Betty says
And she wants what ??? Really ??
sixlittlerabbits says
Shamima is to the UK what Hoda Muthana is to the US. Both have been banned from returning to the countries they left to become willing Jihadi ISIS wives. Why the media is taken in by these vile females is a puzzle. Media is WOKE, WOKE, WOKE. Both Shamima and Hoda embraced the evils of jihad and had no problem until ISIS fell and they were reduced to eating grass. Jihadi wives had lots of power when ISIS was in charge, as the video points out.
It is disgraceful that the BBC is using taxpayer money to advocate for this female POS. She is where she belongs. If only the Kurds would hold trials and execute these killers. BTW, there is one error in the account: Her three children did not die “in childbirth,” but shortly after.