'YOU SHOULD HAVE SYMPATHY FOR ME'
Isis bride's shocking plea
ISLAMIC State bride Shamima Begum last night said she was not a danger and just a housewife.
The 19-year-old repeated that she had no regrets at fleeing the UK for the terror stronghold in Syria.
She gave a TV interview just after giving birth to a son in a refugee camp in the north-east of the country.
Shamima said: “I think a lot of people should have sympathy towards me for everything I have been through.
Tougher
“I didn’t know what I was getting into when I left.
“I was hoping that maybe for the sake of me and my child they’d let me come back. I can’t live in this camp for ever.”
Shamima added: “They don’t have any evidence against me doing anything dangerous.
“When I went to Syria I was just a housewife for the entire four years. Stayed at home took care of my kids.
“I never did anything dangerous. I never made propaganda. I never encouraged people to come to Syria.”
She said living under Isis had made her “stronger, tougher”. Asked if she wished she had not gone to the war-torn nation, the teenager said: “In a way, yes, but I don’t regret it because it’s changed me as a person. It’s made me stronger, tougher, you know.
“I married my husband, I wouldn’t have found someone like him back in the UK.”
The family lawyer Tasnime Akunjee said: “We understand that both she and the baby are in good health.
“As yet we have not had direct contact with Shamima, we are hoping to establish communications soon.”
Shamima fled Bethnal Green, east London, four years ago and wed a Dutch Isis fighter called Yago Riedijk three weeks later.
Shamima had two other children with the fighter but they both died.
She has named the little boy after her late son although her husband asked her to.
The family said her baby had “every right as a total innocent to have the chance to grow up in the peace and security of this home”.