I don’t know where to go with this, there’s so much going on. We’ve heard so much about Shamimma. Social media is hot with it, not everything you read is true. One social media fact is that she got out of the country without a passport. Please. Her father who lives in Bangladesh with another wife is a radical Muslim. The truth of it all is a needle in a haystack.
What is true, is, a fifteen-year-old British girl was groomed and enticed into being a Jihadi Bride. The word groom has been used a lot recently, more notably young people being lure into the sex trade or drug trafficking. What we must look at is what this word really means. It means brainwashing, controlling your mind, controlling your actions, controlling everything in your daily life, withdrawing choice. All this for a group of people you haven’t even met. Her and her friends were possibly lured by social media, in her very own bedroom, where she should have been safe. She was sold an ideology, a utopia. She was brainwashed into a religion. (We hear about religious cults, it’s unfortunate that this one is mainstream, it espouses racism and violence. There are stories of parents breaking into compounds to kidnap their children and to try to deradicalize them through therapy.) there is a lot of talk about how grown up fifteen-year olds are nowadays. I don’t think so, because her groomers made her believe she was grown up enough to make her own decisions, doesn’t mean that she was. She has paid a heavy price for a teenager making wrong decisions. She must have been frightened out of her wits when she realised being a Jihadi Bride wasn’t all it was copped out to be. If we are to believe her husband, she sat at home all day and played house. She must have loved that. This girl had three babies by the time she was nineteen. She endured the trauma of all of them dying. She wanted to come home with the last one. We watched a shell of a young woman being interviewed by the BBC. This was used to highlight how evil she was, how she didn’t care about the criminal acts of her husband and ISIS, how it was normal to see human heads in dustbins, what happened in war was normal, civilian casualties are an unfortunate reality of war. We were watching a young woman living the life of someone who had been groomed. There was no one around to free this young woman who was vulnerable and disenfranchised from life. Shouldn’t we look at ourselves? I don’t know, I can predict though, that sometime in her future, the ISIS Bride will have to face the hell she is trying to wallpaper over now. Her three babies will haunt her forever. It will hit her like a brick one day that opening your rubbish bin and seeing severed heads in it isn’t a normal. Those ghosts will jump into her psyche when she least expects it. Having said all that, I understand the don’t let her back in the UK opinion. I do. She is a threat to our national security. We don’t know what she’ll do next. We don’t owe her anything. She can go to Holland where her husband has nationality. She could go to Bangladesh where her father is. I don’t know the answer, clemency or retribution?
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AuthorI enjoy writing short stories and reading yours. I'm always amazed at where our mind can take us. I think it is therapeutic to let your mind wander off and free itself of personal drudgery. Archives
March 2020
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