A remorseless schoolgirl who fled London to join ISIS but wants to return so the NHS can care for her baby should be banned from Britain, critics said today.
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum was just 15 when she and two classmates Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase travelled to Syria in February 2015 but speaking from a refugee camp after the caliphate's collapse she said: 'I don't regret coming here - now all I want to do is come home to Britain'.
Security minister Ben Wallace admitted she has the right to return to the UK but would not help her and said: 'I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to go and look for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state'.
Begum is the only known survivor of the three friends from Bethnal Green and her two children died of disease and malnutrition before the age of one as the caliphate fell apart around her.
The schoolgirl claims she lived a 'normal life' in ISIS' capital Raqqa and was 'not fazed' by the brutal execution of its enemies, recounting how she once found an 'an enemy of Islam's' decapitated head in a bin.
But with her third baby now due any day and her jihadi husband Yago Riedijk captured, she has decided to quit and now wants to 'live quietly' back in the UK and ensure her baby survives with the help of the NHS.
In an extraordinary interview with The Times' Anthony Loyd, she said: 'I don't regret coming here. But I have to think about my baby as well. After my two kids died I'm scared this baby is going to get sick - that's why I really want to get back to Britain because I know it will be taken care of. Healthcare-wise at least'.
But critics says her lack of remorse proves she is a radical and potential danger to Britain, who should be barred from returning or arrested and prosecuted at the very least.
Dr Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office and Counter-Terrorism Minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said today that Begum shouldn't be let back into the country - but will use her baby to get in.
He said: 'She sounds to be completely unrepentant, she sounds cynical, she said she wasn't fazed by the sight of these heads in a bin as she described it. And now she wants to take advantage of the NHS. You can bet your bottom dollar there will be a lobby to get this girl home on humanitarian grounds'.
Nigel Farage said: 'This woman shows no remorse for her actions, remains a committed jihadist and is totally unsuitable to come into our country'.
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