IT’S YOUR FAULT!
Dad of ISIS bride Shamima Begum blames BRITAIN for letting her join fanatics in Syria saying she should never have been allowed to leave country
Ahmed Ali, 60, said his daughter was 15 and 'immature' when she fled London in 2015
THE father of Brit ISIS bride Shamima Begum today said it's Britain's fault she joined the terror group in Syria.
Ahmed Ali, 60, said his daughter should never have been allowed to leave the country when she and two East London school pals fled home after being groomed online.
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He also said the Government was wrong to strip her of her UK citizenship and she should be brought home and punished.
Mr Ali, who lives in Bangladesh, claimed British authorities had failed to deal with the issue of teenagers trying to join ISIS.
He said today: "One girl went there a month ago (before Shamima).
"The British government should have been alarmed about the matter, and they should have also inquired at the school to find out how she fled, since she was a student.
"Then a month later, three more students fled. The authorities should investigate at the school why these students fled. They were not adults.
"The British immigration system is very informed, the most informed system in the world.
"I always say how did Shamima get there using another one's passport? She doesn't even have her own passport."
RAN AWAY WITH SCHOOL PALS
It is thought Shamima used her older sister's passport to fly from Gatwick to Turkey with two other teenage girls in February 2015.
She was smuggled over the border to Syria and within weeks was married to a Dutch jihadi.
Mr Ali went on: "My child was only 15 years old when she fled. She was immature.
"I would ask the British government not to cancel her citizenship, to return her citizenship, and if she is guilty, bring her back to Britain and give her punishment there."
Mr Ali had previously said the Home Secretary was RIGHT to take away her citizenship.
But the next day he did a U-turn and said Britain should take her back.
Mr Ali, who moved to the UK in 1975, has returned to his home country where he lives with his second wife.
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Shamima, now 19, resurfaced at a refugee camp in Syria last month and told reporters she wants to come home.
But her brazen lack of remorse sparked fury as she said the Manchester Arena suicide bombing was justified and claimed she deserves more sympathy.
She gave birth to her third child in the camp – after her first two died of disease and malnutrition – and hopes the child will be her passport back to the UK.
Her ISIS fighter husband Yago Riedijk – currently held in a Kurdish-run jail – says he wants to take her and the newborn to the Netherlands.
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Shamima Begum's husband Yaho Riedijk says 'we've made a mistake' and hopes to be given a second chance after 'miserable live' in ISIS
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