Darragh Mackin, from Belfast-based Phoenix Law, the lawyer who secured the release of Ibrahim Halawa from prison in Egypt is also now fighting for the return of Islamic State supporter Lisa Smith.
Halawa spent four years in an Egyptian prison after coincidentally ending up in a Muslim Brotherhood associated Mosque during the Egyptian army’s crackdown on the Islamist organisation and overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi.
Halawa’s father Sheikh Hussein Halawa, heads the Irish branch of the European Council for Fatwa and Research which is headed by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Islamic theologian based in Doha, Qatar.
He is considered the spiritual head of the Muslim Brotherhood and is wanted in connection to terrorist groups in multiple countries, including his native Egypt.
After his success in bringing Halawa back to Ireland, Mackin now wants to bring former soldier Lisa Smith who converted to Islam, became radicalised and fled to join the Islamic State to escape “alcohol and homosexuality” in Ireland back to her native land.
Smith who also has a two-year-old daughter, Rakaya, turned her back on Ireland to join the genocidal Islamist group but upon its defeat on the ground and the collapse of its caliphate she had a sudden change of heart and now wants to come home.
The Taoiseach, and the government, who are happy to welcome back to Ireland other radical Islamist terrorists such as Belarussian Alexandr Bekmirzaev have said they want Smith and her daughter back in Ireland as well.
However, the FBI now wish to speak with Smith in connection with her relationship with the radical American Muslim terrorist dubbed jihadi John Georgelas, known as “ISIS’s Goebbels”, through her alleged husband British teacher Sajid Aslam.
Smith, her daughter and Bekmirazaev are all in a camp in a Kurdish held enclave in Northern Syria and the government has said it is keen to see them returned to Ireland. Something that polls show is astoundingly unpopular with the Irish people.
While it would be a violation to revoke the citizenship of Smith, as this would make her stateless, as the Islamic State no longer functionally exists nor did it ever have international recognition, the government could revoke Bekmirazaev’s citizenship as he is also a citizen of Belarus.
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