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British MPs demand passports be revoked from UK jihadis in Syria

May 11, 2014 5:19 pm By Robert Spencer

UKPassportThe amazing aspect about this story is that it is a story at all, so long after it has been known that numerous Muslims from Britain have gone to Syria to wage jihad. The British government, in its abject desire to capitulate to and appease Islamic supremacists, bans counter-jihad spokesmen such as Pamela Geller and me from the country, but is still dithering about what to do about jihad terrorists casually boarding flights in Damascus and returning home to wage more jihad. Britain is indeed suicidal, and its death watch has begun.

“​Alarmed British MPs demand passports be revoked from UK fighters in Syria,” RT, May 10, 2014 (thanks to Thomas Pellow):

One in nine fighters returning from abroad have taken part in a terror plot, according to a UK parliamentary report, while the number of UK citizens travelling to fight in foreign conflicts reached “alarming levels unlike anything seen in recent years.”

The account, which was produced by the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee said “a one-in-nine radicalization rate would make foreign fighter experience one of the strongest predictors of individual involvement in domestic operations that we know.”

Syria has become the “theatre of choice for foreign fighters,” according to the report, due to its proximity to Europe and the ease of travel to its main cities. The conflict has seen unprecedented numbers of foreign fighters traveling to the country, with over 400 estimated to have travelled from the UK to fight against Syrian President, Bashar Assad.

Further research by the committee found that “plots with foreign fighters are more likely to reach fruition and twice as likely to have a lethal impact.” The report states that in the first fortnight of 2014, 14 people were arrested in relation to Syrian-linked activities. This was in comparison to the 24 people arrested over the course of the preceding year. A month later, on 16 February 2014, The Sunday Times reported that as many as 250 individuals who had fought in Syria had now returned to the UK.

To try and counter this UK politicians are demanding that those foreign fighters should have their passports revoked, which would not allow them to travel anymore. The group of politicians said in the report: “We require an immediate response targeted at dissuading and preventing those who wish to go to fight from going; helping countries who are key to intercepting those who are entering Syria, and ensuring those who return do not present a danger to the UK.”

The power to revoke a British passport has only been used 14 times since April 2013, which has amazed some politicians. Another method which can be used is revoking the citizenship of those British nationals who hold dual nationality. This can be undertaken by the home secretary if the person in question is “not conducive to the public good.” There are also plans to allow those who have become naturalized Britons and have given up the passport of the country of their birth to have their citizenship revoked, if they are seen as a danger to UK security.

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  1. tpellow says

    May 11, 2014 at 5:34 pm

    Supplementary on Syria.

    A report, with photos, on city of Homs, after years of Islamic jihad warfare-

    “Back to Homs: Thousands of Syrians return to scenes of horrendous destruction after surrender of ‘capital of the revolution.’
    “Old quarters of Homs, once a thriving city of a million people, were at centre of battle between rebels and government.
    “Whole city blocks have been pounded into hollowed-out buildings and streets are littered with burnt-out cars.
    “Two field hospitals and a network of secret tunnels to surrounding countryside discovered in battle-scarred areas.
    “Conflict has killed more than 150,000 since March 2011 and peace deal is major victory for Syrian President Assad.”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2624235/return-homs-thousands-syrians-scenes-horrendous-destruction.html#ixzz31R4dgjcK
    Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

  2. Henry says

    May 11, 2014 at 5:35 pm

    Good news, but how many MP’s? Will this actually be done?

    • Judi says

      May 11, 2014 at 5:42 pm

      Just what I was thinking Henry

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 13, 2014 at 10:20 am

      British jihadwatchers: find out which ones.

      Then: get behind them and PUSH. AND KEEP PUSHING.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        May 14, 2014 at 6:01 am

        And by PUSHING I mean: try to get these MPs to the *next* step. Which is: realizing that the only way to be *sure* that these dangerous people will NOT carry out jihad attacks inside the UK after they return is this…to cancel their passports NOT before they leave NOR after they come back, but, rather, **while they are in Syria**. So that they CAN’T come back. Ever.

        You could try pointing out, at the same time, the *enormous* expense of having to monitor all these people – as well as worrying about all the ones that are no doubt “flying under the radar” – and then stating that all of that money would have been saved, if Mohammedans had never been permitted into the UK in the first place. And suggesting that it might be a very good idea to *stop* letting them in. Because more Mohammedans = more Jihad plots: guaranteed.

  3. Burt says

    May 11, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    Although I totally agree with Robert how the supine government and media of UK is so deeply wrongheaded, and really putting security at risk through political correctness. Can it really be the case that the USA is doing any better?

    Maybe your Muslims aren’t flying off to Syria in the same number, so maybe they do feel they should keep a lower profile than they do here in England.
    Maybe in fact that is something to do with the brave work done by Spencer and Geller. Because it can’t be down to any major difference in government and media.
    Be proud of your hero’s USA. Support Robert and Pam as much as you can..with your dollars…they probably are making a difference to your security as well as relentlessly exposing the things the media are eager to ignore.

  4. sheik yermami says

    May 11, 2014 at 6:18 pm

    Worst of all is the total incomprehension by these abject dhimmies:

    As you can see from this article by Andrew Gilligan

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10822259/Council-expects-firestorm-over-Trojan-Horse-schools-plot.html

    these wretched city councillors fear a ‘firestorm’ from their constituents, but still insist that there was no plot, merely “new communities” raising “legitimate questions and challenges” to the “liberal education system”.

  5. Richie says

    May 11, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    Revoking passports may cause offense, so the British government will do nothing

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 14, 2014 at 6:05 am

      Never give up. Never surrender.

      If *every single non-Muslim Briton* were to pester their politicians and KEEP pestering, I think it would have an effect.

      And the same applies in every other one of the Lands of the Infidels, wherever people have woken up to the danger represented by the Allah Gang fifth columnists in our midst.

  6. Tom says

    May 11, 2014 at 6:26 pm

    Any of those who participated in the war in Syria, Afghanistan or any of the other islamist wars should have citizenship and passports revoked before they attempt to return. Any that have returned should be deported to Syria or other country where they commited the crimes, to face the wrath of the Syrian or other Government. I don’t care if they will face torture or death as a result of that.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 14, 2014 at 6:06 am

      Exactly.

  7. eib says

    May 11, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    To revoke them is to assert that they had some value in the past.
    Nullify them.
    Make it such these jihadis were never citizens in the first place.
    It is the only designation of which they are worthy– make them stateless, nationless demons wandering the desert.
    Like their false prophet.

    • mortimer says

      May 11, 2014 at 11:43 pm

      Many of them are guilty of crimes against humanity.

  8. veggiedog says

    May 11, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    This is common sense (not so common). Any person fighting Jihad in a ME or other country should be not let back into the country they left, period, they cannot be trusted to be a trusted citizen.

    • Geordie says

      May 12, 2014 at 5:18 am

      “This is common sense (not so common). Any person fighting Jihad in a ME or other country should be not let back into the country they left, period, they cannot be trusted to be a trusted citizen.”

      But British and European law protects the individual even when common-sense indicates otherwise. Just look how hard it is to deport know criminals to face trial abroad.

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