ISIS bride Shamima Begum still SUPPORTS rape and murder of Yazidi sex slaves
ISIS bride Shamima Begum has said she still supports the rape and murder of Yazidi sex slaves, it is reported.
The teen has also apologised for joining the brutal terror group and finally admitted she was one of its "poster girls".
The Yazidis, a religious minority in northern Iraq and Syria, suffered many of the worst atrocities of any group subjected to ISIS rule.
Many women and children were sold as sex slaves in auction similar to cattle markets, while thousands more were slaughtered in a campaign the UN described as a genocide.
In many cases, the wives of ISIS fighters became jealous of their husbands' Yazidi sex slaves, and therefore showed little concern to their treatment.
According to BBC Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville, Begum "still believes IS propaganda".
He said: "When I asked her about the enslavement, murder and rape of Yazidi women by IS, she said 'Shia do the same in Iraq'.
"She had little to offer in way of apology to the millions of Iraqis and Syrians whose lives were destroyed by IS."
Sommerville interviewed Begum at the refugee camp where she was discovered last week.
Yesterday he tweeted: "IS supporter Shamima Begum admits to BBC News she was a poster girl for IS recruitment, apologises to Britain for joining IS and says she is ready to face prison if she’s allowed to return."
It comes as...
- Piers Morgan says Shamima should 'go f**k herself' and 'rot in hell'
- Manchester Arena terror attack survivors pray that she is banned from the UK
- Shamima has said 'she's ready to face prison' if she's allowed back to Britain
Ms Begum added in his interview: "I actually do support some British values and I am willing to go back to the UK and settle back again and rehabilitate and that stuff."
She added: "The poster girl thing was not my choice."
Begum also discussed watching propaganda videos put out by the terror group, along with al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Sommerville said that she knew "of the ISIS-inspired attacks in Manchester and elsewhere, but hadn't realised women and children were killed."
During the wide-ranging interview, Begum left momentarily to “feed her two day old baby boy”, according to Sommerville.
He added: “He is under her abbaya [full-length outer garment]. She says she hopes her family will gain custody of him if she is imprisoned.”
The claims come just 24 hours after the Brit indicated she was little more than a "housewife" during her time in battle-hardened Syria.
Begum told Sky News yesterday: "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."
Last week Begum, who fled to Syria as a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2015, caused uproar when she demanded to be let back into Britain to have her third child.
Begum was married off to Dutch convert Yago Riedijk, 27, within 10 days of arriving in Syria but has not seen him since he was arrested.
She's since given birth to a baby boy in a refugee camp in Syria and claims she "can't stay in this camp forever".
But experts are divided on whether she should be allowed to return and international law says British citizens have a right to come back to the UK.
If people are deemed a serious threat to the country the Government can strip them of their citizenship - but only if they have another nationality.
Begum's lawyer Tasnime Akunjee has claimed she is "traumatised" and compared her to a "shell shocked" soldier from the First World War.
Mr Akunjee also called for an "urgent inquiry" into how Begum and the other schoolgirls were able to travel to Syria.
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has today warned Begum of "consequences" should she attempt to return to Britain.
Answering a question in the House of Commons, he said admitted the government could not prevent her return due to international laws against leaving people "stateless".
However, he added the Commons "will have seen the comments of Shamima Begum in the media and it will have to draw its own conclusions".
"Quite simply - if you back terror, there must be consequences."
Referring to the other British nationals who joined ISIS and are believed to still be in Syria, he added: "Whatever role they took in the so-called caliphate, they all supported a terrorist organisation and in doing so they have shown they hate our country and the values we stand for.
"This is a death cult that enslaved and raped thousands of Yazidi girls and celebrated attacks on our shores, including the tragic Manchester bombing that targeted young girls."