The racist, colonial arrogance of the Brits over this Shamima Begum case is fucking astounding.
“Hey, Bangladesh, listen up! We’re stripping this brown girl of her citizenship - explicity against our own counter-terrorism strategy - and we expect you, our former colony, to pick up the tab and take her in. We don’t care that she’s never even been to Bangladesh. This is on your heads now. Know your place, piccaninnies, and do what your rightful master Britain tells you to do.”
“Oh, and any chance of a favourable trade deal, while you’re at it?”
The lesson here is that racist, imperialist scumbags like you think it’s just fine for Britain to pass its own security problems onto former colonies, despite those former colonies having absolutely nothing to do with them.
Because, they’re, well, little people.
And sure all those Muslims and brown people are the same, really, aren’t they? Or something something.
Bullying a former colony? I haven’t heard that interpretation before.
I’m just asking if you think banglagesh are tacist for not wanting her. If she has a right to claim citizenship…
It’s amazing how you’re focussing on her supposed eligibility for Bangladeshi citizenship and blaming Bangladesh for this case.
Bangladesh understandably do not want to take in somebody who has travelled to Islamic State territory, and who has never even been to Bangladesh.
While you simultaneously completely neglect the fact that she is a British citizen only, born and brought up there, and imply that Britain should be able to wash their hands of her and pass her on to a former colony which has nothing to do with her.
That’s the sort of thing I’d expect from somebody such as, oh, Ruth Dudley Edwards.
I expect in Bangladesh they certainly do consider Britain’s pathetic attempt to pass their security problems on to them as racist, and they’d be dead right.
I’d expect imperial apologists would see no problem with it, however.
She’s British. A citizen of Britain. They have responsibility for her. If she gets deported from somewhere, anywhere, she is shipped to Britain. That is how this works. A country can’t decide to make someone stateless.
I see the point, but legally they’re on safe enough ground if she can claim citizenship elsewhere…according to some international lawyer on the nolan show last night.