Jihadi bride Shamima Begum ditches traditional Islamic dress for Western clothes as she fights to return to Britain
JIHADIST bride Shamima Begum has ditched traditional Islamic dress for Western clothes as she fights to return to Britain.
Striking photos today showed the 21-year-old strolling through a Syrian refugee camp wearing shades and a T-shirt.
The pictures hint Begum is trying to convince the world she has now cut her ties with her terrorist past.
By contrast, she wore a black headscarf and robes when she was found and interviewed in a refugee camp in 2019 in northern Syria.
Then, she made no secret of her sympathy with the IS death cult, revealing how she had sewn bombers into their suicide vests. Begum has since fought to return to Britain to challenge the Home Office’s removal of her UK citizenship.
But last month the Supreme Court unanimously threw out her bid, leaving her in legal limbo and consulting lawyers on next steps.
Begum was 15 when she quit the UK to join IS in Syria in 2015.
She was with two teenage pals — Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase — both presumed dead. Begum, from Bethnal Green, East London, married a Dutch IS fighter and had two children, who both died. She was pregnant with her third when she was found in the al-Hawl refugee camp but the baby died soon after.
Today, her lawyer issued a joint statement with Olympic tower sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor, condemning her treatment.
The pair claimed white schoolgirls would be treated differently.
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