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SHAMIMA Begum's family lawyer has compared the jihadi bride to a WWI SOLDIER as he backed her pleas to be allowed to return to Britain.

Tasnime Akunjee described the 19-year-old as 'someone who has been through trauma' after fleeing to Syria to join Islamic State in 2015.

Shamima Begum gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp over the weekendCredit: Anthony Loyd / The Times / News Licensing

Shamima, who ran away from her home in Bethnal Green, London, has now begged to be allowed to return home after giving birth to a baby boy four years later.

Mr Akunjee claimed the teenager should be treated as a victim as he appeared on Good Morning Britain today.

Responding to presenter Richard Madeley's claims she didn't appear traumatised in interviews, he said: "You might have said the same thing about First World War soldiers in the middle of shellshock."

Madeley, whose grandfather fought in the war, was left bemused by the comparison and asked the lawyer to take it back.

But Mr Akunjee sneered: "OK. That's your view. I'm sure you have a TV show because you think you're right all the time."

In a way, yes, but I don't regret it because it's changed me as a person. It's made me stronger, tougher, you know.
ISIS bride Shamima Begum

On Sunday, the 19-year-old smirked through an interview on Sky News in which she said it would be "really hard" to rehabilitate in UK - and boasted she had a "good time" in Syria.

The 19-year-old who fled the UK in 2015 claims she "never did anything dangerous" and whined: "I can't live in this camp forever".

Asked if she felt she made a mistake travelling to Syria, she said: "In a way, yes, but I don't regret it because it's changed me as a person. It's made me stronger, tougher, you know.

"I married my husband, I wouldn't have found someone like him back in the UK.

"I had my kids, I did have a good time there, just at the end things got harder and I couldn't take it any more.

"When I went to Syria I was just a housewife for the entire four years. I never did anything dangerous. I never made propaganda. I never encouraged people to come to Syria."

The runaway schoolgirl said she wasn't fazed by seeing severed heads in the bin, claiming it "made her stronger."

She said she had been seduced to run away by ISIS videos online.

And speaking to next to her newborn son she said people "should have sympathy towards me for everything I have been through".

DESPERATE TO COME HOME

The Brit, 19, fled to Syria when she was 15, with two friends from Bethnal Green high school, East London, and married a Dutch ISIS fighter.

She was found by a Times journalist last week in a refugee camp.

The 19-year-old, who has called herself "weak" for wanting to return to her home country, had previously given birth to two children who died from malnutrition.

MPs and Muslim groups warned of the danger of welcoming back the mum - who has not shown any remorse since she was found in Syrian refugee camp last week.

Shamima needs to show humility and condemn IS
Mohammed ShafiqChief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation

Tory David TC Davies told The Sun: "I would be very cautious about letting her come back - She doesn't seem to be expressing any regret for what she has done.

“The only thing she regrets is that ISIS lost.”

Mr Mohammed Shafiq, Chief Executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, added: “Shamima needs to show humility, condemn IS and promise to work to return back to the mainstream of Islam which totally rejects their barbaric practices and propaganda.”

FLED TO JOIN ISIS IN 2015

Begum left London in February 2015 with two school friends to follow another classmate to Syria.

She said one friend, Kadiza Sultana, had died in an airstrike but the other Bethnal Green girls, Amira Abase and Sharmeena Begum, had stayed with ISIS in Baghuz.

She said she feared she will never see her husband, the Dutch jihadist Yago Riedijk again, whom she still loved “very much”.

Riedijk, 26, a convert to Islam who grew up in a middle-class family home in Arnhem, is suspected by police of being involved in a terrorist plot in the Netherlands. He was convicted in his absence last year of membership of a terrorist group.

Questions have been raised over whether Britain would be able to prevent Begum's eventual return to the UK.

Shamima's parents are consulting their lawyer about legal action against the government to force it to allow the teenager back into the country.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid has warned he "will not hesitate" to prevent the return of Britons who travelled to join ISIS.

However the government's tough stance was undermined when Alex Younger, the head of MI6, said British citizens "have a right to come to the UK".

Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said anyone linked to terrorist groups "should be fully investigated and where appropriate prosecuted" but added: "We are not in favour of making people stateless."

Chief executive of counter-extremism organisation Quilliam, Haras Rafiq, said he "absolutely" understood the public would be concerned about the prospect of Begum's return, but the "intellectual and right thing to do" was for her to go before the courts.