Why is Jerah Begum dead?
Jerah Begum, son of the "jihadi bride" Shamima Begum, would not be dead in an ideal world.
Obviously, we do not live in an ideal world. But in a fairer world, the many Yazidi children who were killed or enslaved by ISIS, and their parents, would have benefited from the same publicity given the Begums by a slick media campaign.
Britain did revoke Ms Begum's citizenship, but thus far the UK is signatory to the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which binds contracting nations to refrain from making people stateless. Ms Begum has dual nationality, but the other nation of which she is a citizen, Bangladesh, refused to allow her entry. The reason is telling: Bangladesh has enough problems with jihadis entering the country masquerading as Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
We gain an insight here into why Ms Begum was refused permission to enter the UK. Jerah, that poor innocent child, would have been held up as a jihadi Messiah before, had he lived, he could have learnt to talk. And anybody who voiced concern at this would have been branded Islamophobic, Islamophobia being one of a growing list of cultural and political phobias that have never seen a diagnostic manual.
In an ideal world, Shemima Begum would have been brought back and either deradicalised or kept in preventative custody until she was ready to engage with deradicalisation, and her son would have been fostered out with a changed name. But, in the world we have, she would in reality have been on the streets in days thanks to the good offices of human rights lawyers who never seem to ponder the fate of jihad's victims in the UK and abroad. She would be continuing to preach, as she has been doing, that Britons deserve to be bombed. And her son would have had no chance to experience life as an integrated citizen because he would have been brought up in a toxic brew of extremism.
The tragedy is that Shemima Begum is herself technically innocent. She was radicalised by her father while a minor and, in an altered mindset, she set off to join a terrorist organisation where she was further radicalised with every day that passed. It is not her fault that she was turned into a jihadi firebrand. Nevertheless, she is too dangerous to be allowed back into the UK, because predominantly non-Muslim politicians and their fellow-travellers have allowed radicalisation to mushroom into jihad on our streets and have used a perverted version of diversity theory to silence those of us with a vision of a peaceful, pluralistic democracy.
There are many factors contributing to the death of this blameless child, but in the UK the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of those who promote the rights of the few over those of the many in the name of forced social change in pursuit of their strange utopia. They have ensured that we are further from an ideal world than ever. They are the prime reason why Jerah Begum is dead.
RIP Jerah Begum.
Obviously, we do not live in an ideal world. But in a fairer world, the many Yazidi children who were killed or enslaved by ISIS, and their parents, would have benefited from the same publicity given the Begums by a slick media campaign.
Britain did revoke Ms Begum's citizenship, but thus far the UK is signatory to the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which binds contracting nations to refrain from making people stateless. Ms Begum has dual nationality, but the other nation of which she is a citizen, Bangladesh, refused to allow her entry. The reason is telling: Bangladesh has enough problems with jihadis entering the country masquerading as Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.
We gain an insight here into why Ms Begum was refused permission to enter the UK. Jerah, that poor innocent child, would have been held up as a jihadi Messiah before, had he lived, he could have learnt to talk. And anybody who voiced concern at this would have been branded Islamophobic, Islamophobia being one of a growing list of cultural and political phobias that have never seen a diagnostic manual.
In an ideal world, Shemima Begum would have been brought back and either deradicalised or kept in preventative custody until she was ready to engage with deradicalisation, and her son would have been fostered out with a changed name. But, in the world we have, she would in reality have been on the streets in days thanks to the good offices of human rights lawyers who never seem to ponder the fate of jihad's victims in the UK and abroad. She would be continuing to preach, as she has been doing, that Britons deserve to be bombed. And her son would have had no chance to experience life as an integrated citizen because he would have been brought up in a toxic brew of extremism.
The tragedy is that Shemima Begum is herself technically innocent. She was radicalised by her father while a minor and, in an altered mindset, she set off to join a terrorist organisation where she was further radicalised with every day that passed. It is not her fault that she was turned into a jihadi firebrand. Nevertheless, she is too dangerous to be allowed back into the UK, because predominantly non-Muslim politicians and their fellow-travellers have allowed radicalisation to mushroom into jihad on our streets and have used a perverted version of diversity theory to silence those of us with a vision of a peaceful, pluralistic democracy.
There are many factors contributing to the death of this blameless child, but in the UK the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of those who promote the rights of the few over those of the many in the name of forced social change in pursuit of their strange utopia. They have ensured that we are further from an ideal world than ever. They are the prime reason why Jerah Begum is dead.
RIP Jerah Begum.
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