Tasnime Akunjee representing the Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old, who left London four years ago to marry a Daesh fighter in Syria, triggered controversy when he made the dubious comparison.
Speaking to the hosts of Good Morning Britain, the lawyer compared Begum, who has just given birth in a Syrian refugee camp and has appealed to return to the UK but still pledge support to Daesh ideology, to a “shell-shocked World War I soldier.”
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I'm appalled that #ShamimaBegum 's Lawyer Tasnime Akunjee likened her situation to that of our First World War Soldiers. She CHOSE her path, our WWI soldiers had no choice. An atrocious comparison! Our soldiers are the antithesis to her evil ilk @telegraph https://t.co/FksSlclAsy
— HunkyPunks&Gargoyles (Snorlax is my spirit animal) (@BritonHunkyPunk) February 18, 2019