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Should the government allow citizens who left to join foreign terrorist organizations to return to the UK?

This highly emotional debate centers on individuals like Shamima Begum, who left the UK as a teenager to join ISIS in Syria. Under international law, it is generally illegal to leave a person stateless, but the UK government has utilized broad powers to strip citizenship from dual-nationals deemed a threat to the public. Proponents of repatriation argue that the UK must take responsibility for its own radicalized citizens and prosecute them in British courts rather than burdening unstable regions. Opponents argue that allowing traitors to return poses an unacceptable security risk and serves as an insult to the victims of terrorism.

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 @ISIDEWITHDiscuss this answer...4mos4MO

No

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No, revoke their citizenship immediately to protect our national security.

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No, they are traitors who forfeited their rights the moment they joined a death cult.

 @ISIDEWITHDiscuss this answer...4mos4MO

Yes, stripping citizenship sets a dangerous precedent; bring them home to face British justice.

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No, let them face justice in the local courts where they committed their crimes.

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Yes, we have a moral duty to repatriate them, particularly those groomed as children.

 @ISIDEWITHDiscuss this answer...4mos4MO

Yes

 @BDWK774answered…3wks3W

This is a judgement that should only be made on a case by case basis.

 @BDZXJFMGreenanswered…1wk1W

It depends. Who is classifying them as terrorists? Those opposing genocide and labelled terrorists today will be on the right side of history, if the wrong side of a state captured government.

 @BDHSMLZanswered…1mo1MO

Yes, but following criminal trial and examination to assure they are not a risk to national security.

 @BDLVSFLGreenanswered…1mo1MO

I feel yes but they should have to be put in a detention facility for a minimum of 2 years and only be allowed probation (for a following year) after they had psychiatric testing. However if they are proved to be an ongoing threat to society, they should not be allowed to come back.

 @BDK64W6answered…1mo1MO

Yes, but only if they've proven themselves to no longer be a threat

 @BDJL3HWanswered…1mo1MO

No, their citizenship should be revoked unless they are still children

 @9WTN5BT  from Maine  answered…1mo1MO

No, but if ISIS had been recognised as a state and at war then we could have declared its members as foreign actors.

 @BDGB8KKanswered…1mo1MO

No, terrorists should be executed or re-educated

 @BDG7XNNGreenanswered…1mo1MO

Yes, but only cannabis should a case by case basis.

 @BDF2TTVanswered…1mo1MO

Yes bht they must serve a prison sentence

 @BDCGTL4answered…2mos2MO

who gets to decide what is a foreign terrorist organisation? in general I would say no

 @BCWFLTRanswered…2mos2MO

Only if they have no other nationality and even then, they should go to trial for any crimes they committed under the Human Rights Act.

 @4SNPK4B answered…3mos3MO

Yes, criminals who need to be imprisoned (a category which should include anyone who chose to join a terrorist organization) should, within reason, be allowed to choose where they are imprisoned, within a set of choices consisting of prisons that are definitely adequate to hold them.

 @BD37FXYIndependentanswered…2mos2MO

one persons freedom fighter is another persons terrorist

 @BBJV7XManswered…4mos4MO

Not without determining the reason for returning and their current views or recent related activities

 @BBJPBDDanswered…4mos4MO

No if they have another passport but if they don’t then they should be imprisoned for life as a strong deterrent

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