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Originally Posted by Dezzy
Yup, common sense and morality doesn't come into it. It's just all about appealing to people's lowest vindictive instincts. I'll keep saying it until the end of time but if this situation was reversed and we couldn't deport a terrorist supporter because their country stripped them of their citizenship then the same people who support it in Begum's case would be screaming bloody murder if the shoe was on the other foot.
Regardless of anything else, we can't strip someone of their citizenship, especially when their only other tie to a country is through a husband to which she was trafficked into a marriage in which she was basically a sex slave.
Let her come back, have her face a trial, have her serve out her sentence and try to deprogram any radicalism. Not taking responsibility is a childish response.
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It is and when "the voters won't like it" starts dictating the outcome of diplomatic and legal decisions, the drawbacks of democracy really start coming into focus. The Internet plays a part too, to be honest. A couple of decades ago she'd have been brought back, questioned and given a prison sentence and 99% of the public wouldn't have batted an eye... or probably have heard about it at all.