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Shamima Begum tells @BBCNews it is wrong she’s being deprived of her citizenship without anyone from the home office speaking to her first 
“ I wasn’t born in Bangladesh, I’ve never seen Bangladesh, and I don’t even speak Bengali properly, so how can they claim I have Bangladeshi citizenship”
““This is a life changing decision and they haven’t even spoke to me”
“I have one citizenship... and if you take that away from me, I don’t have anything. I don’t think they are allowed to do that”.
“I was hoping Britain would understand I made a mistake, a very big mistake because I was young and naive”
Shamima Begum said when she left Britain she never expected to come back, “I thought I’d go there and be killed and that was the end of it”. But she says she didn’t stay with IS, stopped supporting them, and didn’t die for them.
She says she had a change of heart about IS after they imprisoned and tortured her Dutch armed jihadi husband. Escape was impossible, she claims. “They’d kill you if you tried”.
Reacting to the anger about her wanting to come home, Shamima Begum said “I understand why you don’t want to be sympathetic because of everything IS did... and claiming it’s all for the sake of Islam... it’s really not”.
Her and her husband escaped with 50 others from IS territory via a people smuggler. Her last words to her IS fighter husband before they were separated: “I still love you”.
