Brit ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s dad now says Britain MUST take his daughter back and was wrong to revoke her citizenship
Ahmed Ali performed a dramatic U-turn despite originally agreeing with Sajid Javid's decision to block Begum from returning to the UK
SHAMIMA Begum's dad has now begged Britain to take the ISIS bride back as he slammed the government for stripping her citizenship in a dramatic U-turn.
Ahmed Ali has admitted his daughter did make a mistake when she left London for Syria in 2015 to join the bloodthirsty terror group.
Speaking from Bangladesh, he told AFP: "The British government should take her back because she is a British citizen.
"If she has committed any crime, they should bring her back to London, to her country, and punish her there."
'WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES'
Ali spoke out yesterday after his daughter's citizenship was stripped - saying he was "on the side of the government".
He also condemned her lack of remorse for what ISIS has done as she spoke from a refugee camp in Syria.
But the 60-year-old said today: "To err is human. You and I can both can make a mistake. It is OK to commit an error, all humans do that. One feels sad if a child commits a mistake."
BEGGING TO COME HOME
Ali last saw his daughter in Britain two months before she fled to Syria with fellow Bethnal Green schoolgirls Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase.
Unrepentant Begum - now 19 - has begged to come back to the UK so she can raise her baby son Jerah - named after a 7th century Islamic warlord.
She has finally said sorry for her "mistake" in joining ISIS as she pleaded for a second chance.
The ISIS bride also said how her "fame" led to her being given a new, better makeshift home in the camp - but that angry neighbours "want to burn it down".
She says jealous jihadi wives and Islamist hardliners have scorned her for appearing in multiple TV interviews without covering her face in line with extreme Islamic law.
"Now a lot of women hate me, I’m afraid of a lot of people," she said.
The British government argues it is legal to strip her of UK citizenship because she is eligible for Bangladeshi citizenship - although Bangladesh has said it will not accept her.
Home Secretary Sajid Javid's decision has met with opposition from critics who argue she should be potentially put on trial in Britain.