OP-ED: The dilemma of Shamima Begum

There are several ways of looking at the plight of Shamima Begum, who went to Syria to later become an IS bride at the age of 15. Now, 21, Shamima has lost her appeal to come to Britain to fight the decision by the British government to revoke her citizenship.

From one angle, Shamima is a radical who denounced the land where she was born and grew up to associate with extremists. But from another perspective, she is a teenager who was most probably proselytized into taking the path which has now left her in no man’s land, without any formal identity.