Blame Begum’s family
‘PARENTS FAIL TO CHECK WEB KIDS’
A TOP Muslim comic has criticised Shamima Begum’s parents for failing to monitor her internet use.
Guz Khan said the family of the Islamic State bride should take responsibility for their daughter. The 33-year-old, who starred in hit BBC comedy Man Like Mobeen, believes they could have prevented her from being radicalised if they had kept a closer eye on her internet usage. British-born Begum, 19, fled the UK in 2015 aged 15 to join Isis in Syria.
Coventry-born funnyman Guz said: “If you give your child access to the internet, you have to do your due diligence.
“I don’t believe you can be radicalised by any far-right group, Muslim or nonMuslim, if your family are doing their due diligence. We have a generation of young people who don’t respect their elders. That is a societal breakdown.”
The comic also hit out at right-wing white extremists, saying: “I want to punch those f***ers in the face and I probably will.”
He criticised the move by Home Secretary Sajid Javid to strip Begum of her British citizenship, claiming that it could push more people into being radicalised.
The schoolgirl, of Bethnal Green, east London, married terrorist Yago Riedijk within 10 days of arriving in the country.
She is now living in a Syrian camp with her third child after her first two children died.
Begum is thought to have used the internet in Britain to research Isis. Former teacher Guz is working on a third series of Man Like Mobeen, about a street thug who works in a care home.