Isis bride should rot in Syria

DEFENDERS of Isis bride Shamima Begum say she should be allowed to return to the UK because she was just 15 at the time she ran away.

I have some sympathy: every parent of teenagers knows how stupid they can be. But it’s one thing to go a bit off the rails, quite another to join a death cult with an explicit agenda to torture, maim and kill.

But the most compelling reason why she should not be allowed to return is that she has not shown an ounce of genuine regret. Indeed, when she was interviewed in 2019, she claimed that the murder of 22 people – many of them young girls like her – at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester was ‘fair justification’ after Western air strikes against Isis in Syria.