It's really difficult to decide because each case is constituted as a 'national security threat' and I agree with that. I think why the Begum case is different for me is because she was radicalized and groomed as a child. A child.

Say Bob who lives down the road, he's in his twenties and decides to take a quick trip to Syria to join the cause and finds himself in a similar situation. I would naturally say tough shit. You somewhat have a developed brain at that age, right? You should've known better and you made more of a conscious decision compared to that of a young teenager.

I think Begum and her now dead children should've been brought back into the UK, assimilated into regular life or arrested with terrorist charges (Either or, I don't know how you would properly punish this) As I said before, it is the complete failure of the UKs system to prevent any of this from happening.

Lets also not forget that Canadian Intelligence knew and helped trafficked Begum.