The thing is though, she voluntarily left the UK to join a terrorist State in the form of ISIS or Daesh. Furthermore, as she joined our enemies during a state of war she has committed treason and is a traitor. I'm quite sure those who are supposed to run our justice department in Whitehall or wherever they hang out can work that one out for themselves or am I wrong?
I think that may be a part of the problem, John: who exactly are our enemies? I think we have very many strange bedfellows over in that part of the world as suits the exigencies of the men in faraway lands playing war games ... only with real people.
If I recall correctly the genesis of our present bout of meddling on the fringes of 'tyrant regime change' was aimed at removing Assad which left a vacuum in huge areas of Syria which IS opportunistically claimed as its Caliphate.
The caliphate as an entity hasn't lasted long but the individual units of which it was composed are still in existence and getting ready to lash out like a wounded animal to bring their ideology of death and destruction to their countries of origin while survivors they displaced in Syria etc. are returning to reclaim the civilised lives they once enjoyed.
That a child born, nurtured and educated in Britain could by the age of fifteen be so desensitised to all that is decent that describing viewing severed heads in trash bins without experiencing a qualm then or in retrospect must surely give us pause for thought.
These people were indoctrinated and radicalised while here and I think the challenge for us as a society is to prevent that happening to others now and in the future with returnees from the chaos they participated in perhaps being adopted as role models.
I think we are up against an ideology here ... so what is the best way to combat that?