(Brussels) The Belgian government decided last year that children of IS
fighters from Belgium under the age of 10 would be allowed into Belgium, However
there is a reluctance to accept the mothers too, however in late December a
court ruled in favour of two Belgian women, Bouchra Abouallal and Tatiana
Wielandt, who are being held in the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria with their six
children. The Court of First Instance in Brussels overturned a lower court's
ruling and said the women, whose husbands both died fighting for IS, must be
repatriated with their children. Failure to do so within 40 days, so by the end
of January, would result in a fine of €5,000 ($5,700) per child, per day.
But this is where it gets interesting Bouchra Abouallal and her sister in law Wielandt first went to Syria in 2013 and when her husbands died both(pregnant) returned to Belgium with their children under pressure from their family. Back in Belgium both Wielandt and Abouallal enjoyed great prestige in circles of extremists Belgium, as widows of a Syrian warriors. They made little effort to deradicalise and they gave their newborn children names that referred to the jihad. The children of Wielandt are called Mujahid (warrior) and Shahid (martyr). However they both missed the thrill of oppressing non-Muslims and so in the summer of 2015, Wielandt and Abouallal returned Syria with their two toddlers. In a Facebook post from Syria Bouchra Abouallal mocked the Belgian deradicalisation policy
“Your system has failed, oh Belgian state. You kept an eye on us 24/7, and you still have not managed to stop us. (...) We left for Syria because we believe this is a duty for every Muslim. You have given us that last nudge, "