Common sense, not clairvoyance, is all that was needed for UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid to anticipate that the Bangladesh government was not suddenly going to welcome Shamima Begum. It was in London and online, not Bangladesh, where she and the two friends who journeyed with her to Syria, were radicalized. Her lack of empathy does not, however, alter the legal validity of her wish to return to the UK. Might things be different if Shamima was of a different racial origin? He sat on the Board of the London Pensions Fund Authority between 2001-2010 and is a former vice-chair of War on Want.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 24, 2019 18:00 UTC