(Paris) The story of 33 year
old Emilie König has transfixed france. The daughter of a policeman from Brittany, she converted to Islam as ateenager. In 2010 after the French banned the Niqab , she took to wearing it
simply to wind non-Muslims up. She married, had 2 children, yet in 2012, she
left everything behind, including her children to live in a pure Islamic under
the remit of ISIS carved out of Syria.
She was going to marry one of the fighters out there, but he
died before she arrived, yet she still had 3 more children and took to working for
ISIS with gusto, she adopted the combat name of Ummu Tawwab and regularly
posted images of herself online, where she was armed and entirely covered. Not only did she promote ISIS propaganda she became involved in helping to recruit jihadists
from France which got the World to add her onto the list of ISIS terrorists
wanted for questioning and so she lived a happy of life of jihad hating the
West, Non-Muslims and even Muslims she deemed not pious enough until her whole
world caved in when the 1000 year caliphate ISIS was building didn’t last more
than a couple of years. She was captured in full combat gear by the Kurds (with
her 3 children) and now instead of facing Islamic justice in an Islamic land,
she wants to return back to France in which to pick up her old life. As
mentioned her story has divided France, her mother who has looked after her 2 children
she left behind for the past 5 years has spoken to her on the phone and related
to the media:
“She would like to come back; she has asked for pardon from
her family, her friends, her country,”
However, the government is keeping pretty tight lipped about
what to do with the approximately 690
French foreign fighters in Syria and of which about 43 percent — 295 — are
women. Whilst President Macron has said that decisions on allowing women and
children to return from Iraq and Syria would be made on a case-by-case basis. Benjamin
Griveaux, the government spokesman said:
France favours having its citizens tried where they are
caught, but only “if there are judiciary institutions today that are able to
grant a fair trial.”
A quandary which is been repeated all across Europe and
which will garner a lot more attention these coming months. Naturally the
do-gooders will be screaming ‘Think of the children’ But that is an issue which
can be easily resolved, the question the world should be asking is, what do we
do with the parents. I know my answer.
