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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
she didn't help her cause by how she came across in previous interviews, that's for sure, but, we won't let her back in the country, yet we free a known child killer. It all seems wrong to me. We care about murderers and rapists and favour their route to rehabilitation above the safety of the general public but there is no route back for her
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Realistically there's probably no route back for her because she's in a position where she's at risk in most communities. At risk from the general public in mixed communities, and (frankly) now also at risk from fringe Islamic elements in insular Muslim communities.
She doesn't come across massively well in most interviews to be honest, but not in terms of "still an extremist/dangerous", but rather that she clearly feels quite bitter about all of it as she thinks of herself as a victim (which she is in many ways) but she doesn't show any real introspection into why people think she should also show remorse. But then... she's a 22 year old who has been living in a prison camp since she was a teenager, and had no education since she was a child. In little flashes she comes across as a petulant teenager but that shouldn't really be surprising. Again that's of course a big problem with public perceptions of how things should go - "Maybe if she was more likeable..." - which obviously has nothing at all to do with her being a risk. Unlikeable people aren't necessarily dangerous - and vice versa, some extremely charming, affable people can be very dangerous.