Precedent, that's why.
If she is allowed to return, it will open the gates for others to follow, opening our borders to some very bad people. Terrorists could exploit this.
As for 'how did this happen'? Radicalization! This is no excuse though. Would we excuse a suicide bomber? I imagine the same principles applied when she was 'mind controlled' into going to join Isis.
No precedent has been set that is going to make any real difference though? As I recall, she used her sisters passport to leave the country. So if she used her own, shed be fine to just come back. Hell, she could have got a fake one and just come back. Her actual passport wasnt revoked until after she was found in a detention camp. How many others have gone and come back without any problems?
The flood gates are already open as people come and go all the time. Have done for years. Currently theres 40 brits in a similar boat to her being held in camps for Isil fighters, jihadi brides and their children in northern Syria. 40 people isnt really a flood. And its certainly nothing to how many come and go already.
"Radicalization" doesnt actually tell us anything. Surely we want better details than that? If it was my daughter, Id want to know how, who, what and where. And youre right, we wouldnt be doing this is it was a bomber. So why are we doing it someone who stitched suicide vests on to bombers? Its weird, IMO.
The precedent that is being set here, is that the UK wont deal with its own shit. Shes ours, whether we like it or not. She can be charged with ‘preparation of terrorist acts’ under Section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006, which can carry a life sentence. Why arent we doing that? Why are we avoiding going after a terrorist??? Shes already detained. Lets go get her, charge her, and set her up at her majesty's pleasure for a long stay.
Come on... a 15 year old kid doing something stupid...something very, very stupid...
I feel sorry for her.
At some point, I dont know when, we all agreed that being 15 meant that you didnt know or understand right from wrong. Having been a 15 year old I know that to be false. So you can say that she was tricked or conned or radicalized or groomed, and youd be correct. But that doesnt really take away from what she did, and that makes it hard to feel sorry for her. She still isnt renouncing what shes done. And while I accept that might be just because of where she is, and a threat of harm might be present if she does. Shes still publicly in favour of terror.
The one that I feel sorry for are her three dead kids. If nothing else, when she was found her child should have been taken as a british citizen and allowed to be with the family. 3 weeks old and dead of pneumonia. Thats fecking heart breaking.