Diane Foley, whose son, American journalist James Foley was beheaded in 2014, the jihadists in Syria, says 19-year-old widow of an ISIS fighter Shamima Begum and other supporters of a terrorist state deserve a fair trial.
Let’s all stand with Diane Foley, mother of murdered #journalist James Foley. We must ensure his legacy lives on pic.twitter.com/ROgAxaIG8c
— Irina Bokova (@IrinaBokova) February 5, 2016
James Foley, who worked as a correspondent in the territory covered by the fighting in Syria, was captured by militants in 2012-m to year. His execution in 2014 year, the ISIS videotaped and distributed on the Internet to intimidate their opponents. His mother, Diane Foley, then saw this video and was deeply shocked by the brutality and barbarism of these people. But now the woman suddenly commented on the history of British women Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old widow militants of ISIS, pregnant with my third child.
IS bride Shamima Begum has insisted she is not ‘a threat’ to the UK and has spoken of her regret at joining the jihadi fighters in Syria https://t.co/V8wfaratdv pic.twitter.com/vTBIFmMDKs
— ITV News (@itvnews) February 18, 2019
The story of Begum received mixed talk and outrage many people — it appealed to the public and to the British authorities with a request to allow her to go to England to birth in normal conditions. Speaking in the «Radio four», she told me that she went to Syria when she was 15 years old, and was too young. After the defeat of most of the forces of ISIS and the deaths of most of his fighters in Syria remains a huge amount of their widows and wives, including children and pregnant women. Tens of thousands of women are in hard conditions in various camps to determine their own destiny. Many of them are citizens of different countries to Syria many years came to become wives of jihadists, women from around the world.
«I understand very well that ISIL continues to pose a threat, and it is very difficult to determine what threat are they when they want to return home, said today Diana Foley, you have to watch them very carefully and to follow any further radicalization or penetration of their ideas.» According to Foley, the civilized countries should address this issue in a civilized manner and be responsible for its citizens, including criminals: «Everyone deserves a trial. These people should be responsible for what they did. But the court must be transparent and individual. Each country must take responsibility for its citizens who commit crimes».
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— Natalie Barker (@natjbarker82) February 18, 2019
According to Foley, Britain could take the Begum to its territory for trial and to allow her to give birth there. This weekend the US President Donald trump spoke more — «the United States is asking the United Kingdom, France, Germany and other European allies back ISIS fighters captured in Syria, and to bring them to justice. The end of the Caliphate is coming», said the President of the United States, noting that, if the militants not to repatriate them, «do you have to release, and this is a bad alternative.»
Although, the specific situation with Begum turned out to be somewhat more complicated, her parents are citizens of Bangladesh, and British officials believe that sending her to their historic homeland would be preferable and has all legal grounds.
