Two young girls . . . but only one was truly a victim
JiHADi bride Shamima Begum said she is no longer the ‘silly little 15-year-old girl’ who let herself be groomed by islamist militants. When i read that, i thought back to the plight of another 15-year-old.
Almost two years ago, Olivia Campbell-Hardy went to the Manchester Arena to watch an Ariana Grande concert.
However, along with 21 people — including other children as young as eight — the Bury schoolgirl was killed when a terrorist exploded a bomb packed with metal bolts and screws.
Told of her death, her grief-stricken father said: ‘The ones suffering most are the young people in our family. Their world has changed for ever. Suddenly it is not so full of joy and possibility.’
iSiS claimed responsibility for the massacre. This is the same murderous organisation Ms Begum, now 19, was with for four years.
She insults our intelligence to claim she was just a ‘silly’ 15-year-old.
Having been brought up in london and groomed online, she must have been well aware that islamic extremists killed more than 50 people on the capital’s Underground trains and a bus in the 7/7 terror attacks.
Since Ms Begum has been in Syria with iSiS, as well as the Manchester Arena bombing, there have been multiple killings on london’s Westminster Bridge and in Borough Market. Many will feel that, as a jihadi bride, Ms Begum is complicit in all these murders.
Despite Home Secretary Sajid Javid saying he’ll ‘not hesitate to prevent’ her return to Britain, i’m sure she will, as she hopes, ‘come home’.
indeed, the head of Mi6 says nothing can be done to stop British fighters and their wives returning to the UK. Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money would then be spent on Ms Begum — on policing, a possible criminal prosecution, nHS treatment, childcare, housing and even providing her with a new identity.
Of course, the usual bleeding hearts say she’s a victim.
no she isn’t. Olivia Campbell-Hardy and all those others killed or injured (and their grieving families) are the real victims — butchered by a murderous cult which Shamima Begum still shamefully refuses to disown.