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100: Shamima, Smollett and Soubry

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🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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ISIS brides, hate-crime hoaxes and the Independent Group. Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and we're welcome to the Spiked Podcast I'm Fraser Meyers and with me today are deputy editor of Spiked Tom Slater.

0:06.4

Hello?

0:06.9

I know Ella Wheeling this week so we're joined by Spiked editor Brendan O'Neill.

0:11.1

Hello? Coming up on the show today,

0:13.3

Shamima Begum,

0:14.4

Jussie Smollett, and the anti-Brexit independent group.

0:19.8

I think a lot of people should have like sympathy towards me

0:22.0

for everything I've been through, you know.

0:24.0

We cannot ignore the threat posed by those who chose to leave Britain to engage with the conflict

0:30.1

in Syria or Iraq.

0:32.0

Quite simply, if you back terror, there must be consequences.

0:36.0

He has no proof that I'm a threat, other than that I was in ISIS, but that's it.

0:50.0

The Home Secretary Sajid Javid has revoked the citizenship of Shamima Begum. The ISIS bride from Bethnal Green was discovered in a Syrian refugee camp by the times.

0:54.8

She has given multiple interviews pleading to come back home to Britain.

0:58.4

Tom, can you tell us a bit more about this case?

1:00.9

Yeah, so Shimima Begham for just to remind people was one of three girls who left Beth

1:05.8

McGreen in East London who were age about 15-16 back in 2015 who left for Syria effectively to go and become jihadi brides.

1:15.0

The other two girls were Amira Abassi and Kadiza sultana.

1:18.0

Cadiza, I think has already been killed in an air strike but these two were still there just no one had heard of them.

1:22.0

That was until last week when someone from the time in an air strike but these two were still there just no one had heard of them.

1:22.6

That was until last week when someone from the Times actually discovered came across

1:27.6

Shemeyma Begum in a refugee camp in northern Syria. She'd been split apart from her husband who was a Dutch

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