From the BBC
A British mother who took her toddler son to Syria, has been found guilty of membership of so-called Islamic State. Tareena Shakil, 26, is the first British woman to return from the self-declared caliphate to be convicted of the offence.
Shakil, of Birmingham, has also been found guilty of encouraging acts of terrorism through messages posted on Twitter. She denied the charges. She had admitted travelling to Syria.
But following a two-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court, the jury rejected her claim that she had only wished to live under Sharia law.
The jury was shown her tweets, messages and photographs, including images of the black flag of IS and passages calling on people to “take up arms”.She had also stated her wish to become a “martyr”.
The jury was told to not think about membership in terms of belonging to a library or a gym. Instead, they had to decide whether Tareena Shakil voluntarily went to be with IS in Syria, knowing its aims, how it would achieve them and, crucially, seeking to associate with like-minded individuals.
She is due to be sentenced on Monday.
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One Response
A fitting punishment would be to publicly and ceremoniously strip her and her child of her British citizenship and passport – burn the papers in front of her – and send her back to Syria.
And… raid and surprise search whatever mosque or mosques (and all associated premises and businesses) she and her family attend/ attended. Find anything… er…suspect… shut it down. Permanently.
Then – having turfed out two Mohammedans and, very probably, gotten rid of a mosque – get in touch with the Barnabas Fund “Operation Safe Havens” and offer a visa to Britain for a bona fide Assyrian *Christian* family. Barnabas can, I am certain, tell the difference between real and fake.