Jihadi bride dad whose daughter joined ISIS with Shamima Begum claims girls ‘pose no threat’ and should be allowed home
Abase Hussen, 52, has repeatedly blamed cops and the government after his daughter Amira Abase fled the UK to join Syria when she was 15
THE dad of a jihadi bride who fled the UK with Shamima Begum to join ISIS has argued the girls pose "no threat" and demanded they be allowed home.
Abase Hussen has repeatedly slammed cops and the government for failing to stop his daughter Amira from joining the terror group when she was 15.
Now the 52-year-old claims his daughter and heavily pregnant Begum, who is begging to come home to have her baby, should be allowed to return to the UK.
Currently, the pair face up to ten years in jail if they return to Britain after running away from home in Bethnal Green, East London, in 2015.
Hussen, who has previously been filmed on marches clutching a burning US flag as he protested alongside Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebowale, said he hasn't spoken to his daughter for a "long time".
The security guard told Sun Online today: "As a father, what I say to the British government is to let these girls into the country.
"Give them some kind of teaching. As a teenager, you can do anything - I did too. They are not a threat."
As far as I know my daughter is very charitable. So she’s very soft when she sees someone suffering
Abasse Hussen
Hussen, who came from Ethiopia via Germany to UK in 1999, also said he is "glad" both his daughter and Begum are still alive as he said "come please to us".
The dad-of-three added: "As far as I know my daughter is very charitable. So she’s very soft when she sees someone suffering. She’s generous in nature.
"Nowadays, all parents, they don’t know their children. I believe that. They don’t know them. They don’t let you know what they are doing."
But he argued all children "are very secretive" as he remembered his daughter as a "generous and a good student"
He added: "She was a very good daughter."
'REMEMBER HOW WE LOVE YOU'
Amira fled the UK with two Bethnal Green Academy pals, Kadiza Sultana and Begum, in February 2015.
The three girls all married ISIS fighters but Sultana was reported to have been killed in an airstrike on Raqqa in May 2016 while Abase could still be alive.
Her dad had made an emotional appeal for her to come home a week after she joined the barbarous terror group, saying: “Remember how we love you”.
Holding a teddy bear wearing a Chelsea shirt, he said his family “cannot stop crying”.
But just weeks later, pictures emerged of Hussen chanting “Allahu akbar” at a demonstration as he marched with hate preacher Anjem Choudary and Saiful Islam, who has praised Osama bin Laden.
He has constantly refused to take any responsibility for his daughter’s disappearance and has instead blamed the police, teachers, and Turkish officials.
Hussen even told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee that he did not to know what Islamic radicalisation is, saying: “As for me, I don’t know the symptoms even — what radicalisation is.”
BEGGING TO COME HOME
It comes after Begum, now 19, says she doesn't regret her decision to join the barbarous terror group but is begging to come home so she can have her third baby in Britain.
She was been discovered by a in a Syria camp filled with refugees escaping the battle for the final ISIS stronghold.
More Brits - mainly women - have also been found at different camps in the war-ravaged country, reports.
There are only believed to be a "small number" but there could be more British nationals who are yet to be identified.
Begum married a Dutch fighter ten days after arriving in Syria and enjoyed a “normal” life except for the "bombing and stuff", but he is said to have surrendered himself.
GRISLY LIFE WITH THE TERROR GROUP
She is now due to give birth to her third child, after her first two children died of starvation and illness, and wants the baby to have a decent life with her in the UK.
But the warped jihadi bride has calmly revealed grisly parts of her life with the terror group - saying that the first time she saw a severed head “didn’t faze me at all”.
She added: "It was from a captured fighter seized on the battlefield, an enemy of Islam.
"I thought only of what he would have done to a Muslim woman if he had the chance."
Unrepentant Begum also described herself as “weak” for leaving ISIS and praised those brave enough to stay.
She added: “In the end, I just could not endure anymore. I just couldn’t take it. Now all I want to do is come home to Britain.”
But the teen slammed the group’s oppression and corruption saying they didn’t “deserve victory”.
'I'M NOT THE SAME SILLY CHILD'
She added: “I know what everyone at home thinks of me as I have read all that was written about me online.
"But I just want to come home to have my child. I’ll do anything required just to be able to come home and live quietly with my child.”
But she insisted: “I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago and I don’t regret coming here."
'COMPLETELY UNREPENTANT'
Anyone who returns to the UK after travelling to ISIS territory faces a criminal investigation and up to ten years in jail.
But critics have today argued Begum's lack of remorse shows she is a danger to Britain - but will be allowed back in the country because of the baby.
Dr Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office and Counter-Terrorism Minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said: "She sounds to be completely unrepentant, she sounds cynical, she said she wasn't phased 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 that will swing into action to get this girl home on humanitarian grounds.
"There's not going to be many people with great enthusiasm for bringing her back, but I suspect she will make it in the end."
I am not putting at risk British people’s lives by going to look for former terrorists
Security minister Ben Wallace
Security minister Ben Wallace has also weighed in on the debate - saying he will not risk the safety of Brits.
He told the BBC: "Actions have consequences.
"I am not putting at risk British people’s lives by going to look for former terrorists.
"We have a duty to the UK citizens here to make sure we take measures to keep the safe. We have to mitigate the threat if she comes back."
He said that "as a British citizen she has the right to home here" but he added: "Anyone who goes to fight for Isis, a dreadful, horrendous group, should expect to be interviewed and potentially prosecuted."
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Times war correspondent Anthony Loyd, who found Begum, told Today she was "two things".
He said: "She is the 15-year-old schoolgirl who was groomed and lured to the caliphate, and four years later, with that background, she is an indoctrinated jihadi bride.
"She didn't express regret, she said she had no regrets, she was calm and composed but she was also in a state of shock - she had just come out of a battlefield, nine months pregnant, many of her friends dead and she's gone through air strikes and all the rest of it - so I wouldn't want to rush to judge her too harshly."
Leading security expert Will Geddes has also warned Begum could be an "extreme challenge" to de-radicalise and said she should still be considered a "potential combatant".
But reformed extremist Hanif Qadir, who now runs the Active Change Foundation, says she should be allowed to "turn her life around" and return to the UK as she is a "victim".
