Brendan O’Neill Brendan O’Neill

The shame of those siding with Shamima Begum

issue 23 February 2019

At last, having kept pretty shtum about it for the past few years, the virtue-signalling set has mustered up some sympathy for women caught up in the horrific Isis vortex.

Unfortunately, though, their sympathy isn’t for the Yazidi women who were burned alive after refusing to become sex slaves for Isis jihadists.

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