Dr Anna Rowlands comments on Shamima Begum case

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In a message on Twitter today, Dr Anna Rowlands, the St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham University, flags up a piece she has written for Church Times about the case of the London teenager Shamima Begum, who ran away from home to Syria with friends at the age of 15, four years ago, to live in the Islamic State - and now is appealing to come home with her newborn baby.

Dr Rowlands writes: "I wrote this blog piece on Shamima Begum before knowing Home Office decision to move in direction of de-citizenship. I suggest such a move places us on wrong side of history of force & therefore distances us from a politics of both justice and restoration."

Read her Church Times article here: www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/22-february/comment/opinion/shamima-begum-and-the-possibility-of-restoration

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