Common sense. All Western states should do this. Those Muslims from the West who go to fight with the Islamic State have declared war on their home countries. They are not citizens of them; they are citizens of the umma. All Western states should do this, but few if any will follow Australia’s lead.
“Citizenships of up to 110 Aussies fighting with IS to be canceled: gov’t,” Xinhua, April 8, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):
CANBERRA, April 8 (Xinhua) — More than 100 Australians fighting in the Middle East with Islamic State (IS) could be the first to have their passports cancelled under laws passed by the government last year.
Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed on Friday that a “Citizenship Loss Board” had determined that 110 Australians were currently fighting in the Middle East, and they would have their citizenships revoked if proven to have joined the terrorist outfit.
Dutton said each case would be handled individually and “carefully” with the individuals who pose the most risk to Australian citizens to be stripped first.
“This means there could potentially be more than 100 individuals who may be captured by the provisions introduced last year,” Dutton told News Corp on Friday.
“I have asked the Citizenship Loss Board to prioritize a number of submissions based on known individuals who may present a particular risk to the Australian community.”
News Corp reported the government could be cancelling the passports and citizenship of the jihadis within the next three months.
Last year, measures were introduced by the government, which said any dual national Australian citizen who traveled to terror hotspots and was found to be supporting terrorist groups would have their Australian citizenship revoked….

sidney penny says
Hip Hip Hooray!
Only 110?
Next stop,cancelling the passports and citizenship of those who support Islamic State.
Yes, all Muslims all around the world will support this since Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam.
Right?
Bob says
What a pity that the UK politicos haven’t the guts to follow their lead!
an says
The Aussies have the right idea about dealing with boatloads of economic migrants, unlike the stupid EU politicians.
UK politicos have no guts whatsoever.
Their Minister of Counter Terrorism is Tariq Ahmed who proudly lists himself as a Muslim.
He has been written to about hate preachers holding meetings but appears more interested in lecturing those who write, to be aware of “British tolerance” and tradition. How would he know?
The UK Government has sold out.
Dom107 says
Yes totally agree.The UK ruling class has always put money ahead of culture or ethics.So many examples of that in history from the Irish Famine to the hiprocracy of David Cameron today criticising those who avoid paying tax while doing the same himself.
The Aussies may be blunt and rude but have a lot more CO Mon sense when dealing with this Islamic menace!
nicu says
I hope other countries will follow doing that !
Olivia says
I believe when it’s done
Ron says
Since when does Islamic State have nothing to do with Islam? Ever heard of the world Caliphate? Just ask Iran, they will straighten you out!
Norm says
lol Penny noooooo noooooooo nothing to do with Islam Mohammed was a peaceful pedophile with child bride of six years of Age and who killed lots of people such a loving type of guy to worship ehhh
Godwin says
They should also be black-listed n banned from entering all non Muslim countries.
Hope says
Australia is really going to do this? I’m not going to get excited just yet. Let’s wait and see if the government caves in to the muslim cries of “Islamofauxbia” and “discrimination,” blah blah blah…
Shane says
It appears that the French and Australian leaders have more guts than America’s dhimmi president does. If we are foolish enough to elect another Treasoncrat president, the Islamic Jihad will continue to gain many victories against the USA. We need Trump or Cruz to fight the jihad and stop Muslim immigration into the USA.
Hope says
Yes. Without Trump or Cruz the game is over for Americans.
nicu says
We need a Trump in Germany !
Ron says
Shane: i beg to differ there. The present US so called President is not a dhimmi President. He’s one of them! Didn’t you conclude that nearly 8 years ago?
Baa Humbug says
Yes we are really going to do this. Outrage from the apologists has already happened when the legislation was first introduced. They failed.
The key now is to show that someone has taken part in ISIS activities.
On a seperate note, an Aussie Kurd travelled to the ME to fight against ISIS and he was arrested on his return. The law covers all who partake in the war there.
Lenny Leaps In says
Hi Baa Humbug.
The latest is that the Kurdish fighter who returned to Australia eventually had these charges thrown out.
worldcitizen1919 says
Excellent. And anyone who supports them family or otherwise. I hope they really do it and not just talk about it as Australians are serious enough about not wanting terrorists here to the point of changing government’s if they don’t listen to the people.
We made it clear no illegal immigration and they eventually learned when we threw them out, that we meant it. We don’t want terrorism imported to this country and want a firm stance taken against those who support it, namely, a return to their own country.
You can’t be a citizen of a western democracy like Australia and also be a member of a group seeking to destroy western civilisation.
Sincere people only need apply for Australian citizenship.
sparker says
It might have happened under Mr. Abbott as PM but not under Mr. Turnbull. Instead they will be settled back into Australia and after a few sad tribunal hearings or whatever it is they’ve set up for this, they will eventually be paid compensation for the mental stress of having their citizenship questioned.
Guest says
I’m afraid you might be right. The key words: “they would have their citizenships revoked if proven to have joined the terrorist outfit.”
It will be very hard to prove. Many will claim they only went to visit Syria or help the Red Crescent or some such story.
Instead, the law needs to be quite clear: if you go to a country we’re at war with, you won’t be allowed back in. Even proving they had gone there might be difficult enough though 🙁
Louis Barlow says
Well Done Peter Dutton.We mean business,and this is a good start.
madmemere says
It would be preferable, if all nations that have been “invaded” by the islamists, would immediately cancel/ rescind ALL citizenships, visas, etc., held by any muslim, who practices islam, and deport them to their native sand dunes.
linnte says
It seems to me that ANY asylum seeker who keeps their connection to their home country by having dual citizenship, should be given a choice. Choose your country, and if you don’t choose the present one, go home.
No Fear says
This is disappointing news. Why not charge them with treason under the Federal Treason Laws.
Section 80.1 of the Criminal Code, contained in the schedule of the Australian Criminal Code Act 1995,[4] defines treason as follows:
A person commits an offence, called treason, if the person:
(a) causes the death of the Sovereign, the heir apparent of the Sovereign, the consort of the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister; or
(b) causes harm to the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister resulting in the death of the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister; or
(c) causes harm to the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister, or imprisons or restrains the Sovereign, the Governor-General or the Prime Minister; or
(d) levies war, or does any act preparatory to levying war, against the Commonwealth; or
(e) engages in conduct that assists by any means whatever, with intent to assist, an enemy:
(i) at war with the Commonwealth, whether or not the existence of a state of war has been declared; and
(ii) specified by Proclamation made for the purpose of this paragraph to be an enemy at war with the Commonwealth; or
(f) engages in conduct that assists by any means whatever, with intent to assist:
(i) another country; or
(ii) an organisation;
that is engaged in armed hostilities against the Australian Defence Force; or
(g) instigates a person who is not an Australian citizen to make an armed invasion of the Commonwealth or a Territory of the Commonwealth; or
(h) forms an intention to do any act referred to in a preceding paragraph and manifests that intention by an overt act.
By simply revoking their citizenship the Govt has taken the easy option.
The Govt are a bunch of pussies.
john says
Rubbish, we do not want to bring them back here and pay for all their medical and living expenses AND their legal defense AND their gaol time. Much better to not let them back in….
Godfrey Johnson says
Way to go, Australia!
The UK is holding a referendum on 23 June to decide whether to remain in the EU. There should be a resounding NO. Reason? At the moment, if Britain tried to do what the Aussies did there’d be protests to Brussels and the European Court of Human Rights would overturn the decision.
Brexit or Bust!
Mick says
Australia will only cancel the Australian passport and revoke Australian citizenship of dual nationals as we have signed an agreement with the UN not to cause a person to become stateless or to recognize the status of stateless. Regardless of the UN we should revoke citizenship and permanent residence of all muslims who join or support islamic state, have a criminal record or is a long term unemployed. Most muslims bludge on their host nation.
Baucent says
I hope they follow through with this, but have to wonder. I don’t believe the new Prime Minister Turnball is as convinced as Tony Abbot was, as to the danger muslim immigration brings to the country. But Australia has lead the way in showing how to stop the illegal migration with the successful “turn back the boats” policy. What a different situation Europe would face today if they had followed the Australian example last October.
Guest says
The ‘No Way’ campaign has saved thousands of lives. Tough but effective. Europe should adopt it immediately.
Charli Main says
No problem for these scum. They will just hop on to the next Turkish supplied ” refugee” boat and head for Europe.
Omi-san says
Justin Trudeau will call Australia and proose to welcome the 110 jihadis in Canada. He has to prepare the next election and every vote counts.
Julia Kinghorn says
Yes, the sunny ways PM is so far too the left, he will welcome ISIS just to get more votes for his unseeming government. He cares nmot about the well being of true Canadians.
Guest says
So far to the left that he seems to be enabling an ideology called ‘fascist’ by people who know what they are talking about, such as Hamed Abdel-Samad.
Angemon says
Good I hope they don’t puss out at the last moment like the cheese-eating surrender monkeys…
Well, I wouldn’t call getting rid of terrorists a “loss”. And I wouldn’t call them “citizens” either – they know where their allegiances lie, and it’s not with Australia.
dumbledoresarmy says
Righto.
I speak as an Australian, and I address all fellow Australian jihadwatchers here posting or lurking.
If you are afraid that our Authorities might “wimp out” at the last moment.. then now is the time to strike.
To wit, by contacting 1/ your MP and 2/ the Immigration minister (copy the letter to the Shadow immigration minister, for good measure, so s/he knows exactly which way the wind is blowing) and 3/ *the defence minister*, and state that you fully support the proposal to strip citizenship from those Aussie-passport-holding Muslims who are currently engaged in Jihad in Iraq or Syria. State, loud and clear, that you do NOT want these creatures to be permitted to return to Australia under any circumstances. State that you do NOT want a ‘Brussels attack’ to take place in Australia. Add, for good measure, that those among their number who comprise persons from non-Muslim family background and upbringing who have converted to Islam and Gone Jihad should lose their citizenship and be denied return to this country, right along with the others; they *cannot* be permitted to return any more than the ‘born-Muslim’ jihadis, because they represent just as lethal a threat to thousands of innocent Aussie Infidels.
Throw in, for good measure, remarks to the effect that you would like to see a moratorium on *all* further Muslim *immigration* into Australia, given that the vast majority of these Aussie-passport-holding jihadis are either immigrants or the children of immigrants and ‘refugees’ .
Emails are good for a quick response. However, if you want your message taken seriously, take the time to type it up and then *print it out on paper*, add your personal signature, and help keep Australia Post afloat, by sending it to the relevant politician by Snailmail. If you go to that much trouble it tells them you are *serious*.
The very fact that our government has even gotten as far as *thinking* about this measure is significant. Now it’s up to us to get behind them and PUSH.
The Muslims got where they are by pushing for one little concession after another…that all went in the same general direction.
No reason why similar tactics can’t work for the Resistance!
Guest says
What do you think of the “if proven to have joined the terrorist outfit” clause. Doesn’t that leave far too many outs?
gravenimage says
Go Aussies!
ploome says
and their families
Florida Jim says
Everywhere a muslim lives that is not Islamic should do the same oust them at once. Those who follow Sharia, Jihad, Beheading, propagandizing mosques and turning out young killers should be sent home back to the hellholes from whence they came to kill freedom and the people who want freedom.There are no moderate muslims they all wait decades and centuries for the massacres to begin pretending to be “like us” hiding their beheading tools.
Jay Boo says
Send them off on the first planned Human missions to Mars.
Upon hearing of the possible detection of life on Mars, lovers-of-death Muslims around the world have been itching to go there while clutching their guns and religion.
GoodNews says
Psycho Barry wants you to believe he and his ilk are going to keep you safe. Angela Merkels’ “Christian Democratic Union” is anything but Christian.
Love your neighbor as you love yourself implies you love yourself, OK? I get the part about Christians are called to a life of service and sacrifice: But that service is to Christ: Not those who take His name in vain.
Michael Johnson says
Good if they wanna fight for Isis let them go and live with them
Mark A says
This new Australian law makes complete sense. Other Western countries should follow Australia’s lead.
Charles says
The previous Canadian government under PM Harper was going to introduce the same policy, despite howls of protest from very many bleeding heart Leftists about “two-tiered/second-class citizenship.” But new Liberal useful idiot PM Trudeau firmly believes that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.” We cannot discriminate against jihad terrorists, do you not know?
Pong says
Canadians made their choice. The polices were clear for everyone to see. The Irish have made a similar choice, electing a pro-islam government. Most Canadians and irish are quite comfortable with moslem invasion, the rest have the choice to vote with their feet now.
bridgette says
No they’re not! I don’t believe that he got in legit anyway. He was so low on the pre-election polls. Sickening. Canadians like the U.S. have been taken for a very dangerous ride. I didn’t vote for that bastard btw.
Aussie Infidel says
Dumbledoresarmy makes some good points. However, I have already been to see Peter Dutton about this and related issues, and didn’t get much joy. Perhaps after the riotous behaviour by the thugs from the Socialist Alternative at recent meetings, Dutton (or his boss Malcolm) has changed his mind. Nevertheless, it’s a step in the right direction. No doubt it will be an agenda item for our next ALA (Australian Liberty Alliance) meeting. Anyone who travels to a war zone in the Middle East unless for very compelling personal reasons, should have their citizenship revoked. Citizens must owe their allegiance to their country of residence, not their previous homeland, or some disparate religious Ummah, still under the spell of a 7th century warlord.
However, this is still not going far enough, and will not prevent the spread of Islamic militancy. The citizenship of all Muslims should be revoked unless they sign the ‘Charter of Muslim Understanding’, as proposed by Sam Soloman. All Muslims would be required to sign this document to reject the extremist political verses of Islam’s religious texts which promote violence and conflict with non-Muslims. The Quran would then be reduced to about one third its present size, most Hadith would disappear, and Sharia law would be scrapped. Muslims who abide by this Charter and wish to live in peace with their neighbours, would be welcome as citizens of Western nations. Muslim clerics and mullahs who do not sign this Charter, would be striped of citizens rights or deported. Any remaining jihadists would be dealt with under existing laws.
http://counterjihadreport.com/2012/11/26/ex-muslim-sharia-expert-sam-soloman-speaks-on-islam/
http://www.australianlibertyalliance.org.au/
Ron says
Totally agree with Aussie Infidel. A step in the right direction, but the government is still pussy footing around Muslims. Be firm, resolute, and determined. The only language Muslims in general understand is firmness and resolution. And yes, we must show kindness; but kindness with no resolution and firmness in dealing with radical Islam is only naivety. Until we cease allowing Muslims to call the shots regarding the right of immigration the better for all countries. All criminals, including rapists, must be arrested, jailed and sent home or flown to Somalia and left there. It’s not that Arab people are all bad, no, not at all. Islam is the Issue. All non Islamic countries must know all the chief tenets of Islam and the Koran; then they must have the immigrants sign on pain of expulsion that they will abide by all the laws of their new country; and that they cannot practice any Islamic teaching that runs contrary to the host country. Some of these should be spelt out: genital mutilation, beating of wives, women, daughters, forced marriages, changing religions, and the like. No Mosques must be allowed with any shouting or calling from the minarets! Mosques must be regularly and unannounced inspected or they will not be built. All Muslim schools and meeting halls must be monitored with closed circuit TVs. This might sound like hatred of Muslims; but be that far from so. Many of these are very lovely people. But since great destructive elements and violence emanate from Muslims mainly, across the earth, countries have to first determinedly remove that evil and destructive behaviour before granting them the freedom that every other world immigrant has. It is as simple as that. Any other way short of war will not work. Will governments listen? Doubt it. It’s a one way street with Islam. They want to do whatsoever they please in other countries, but people from other countries must walk to heel in many Muslim countries or suffer the consequences. Try walking with a lady, not being married, in Saudi and feel what it’s like. You will never return there! Sorry chums!
abad says
110 is a start – and really, just further proof that Muslims can never really be citizens of any nation on earth except their “homeland” (not just Saudi Arabia, but a true Muslim caliphate like ISL).
Veritas says
Will the government of Ox deport the family members and relatives of these individuals? Of course not. So the cancer will grow. Exactly who taught and nutured these jihaddies if not their relatives? So they must be acceptable because they didn’t take up arms?
gravenimage says
Australia to cancel citizenships of up to 110 Muslims who’ve joined the Islamic State
……………….
*Excellent*. Glad to hear it.
Mohit Chopra says
Can anyone please provide the sources? My cousin doesn’t believe this news. He’s asked for Sources… Please help…
linnte says
The source s in the article… The Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. And tell your cousin that we Westerners are really getting tired of all this Islamic bullshit! Thanks 🙂
notaluvvie says
This will never happen. It’s just more politician talk, talk, talk. All that will happen is public servants will have the opportunity for more meetings, domestic and international travel (all at the pointy end in both cases), five star hotels, position papers, claims for more staff, claims more stress leave, bigger departments (if not a new department). All-in-all it will be years of, in their eyes, fruitful work but for the Australian taxpayer it will just be more waste, waste, waste and no action. Sounds good, gets headlines and then it falls into an abyss.
dumbledoresarmy says
The job of Islamo-informed aussie infidels is to make sure that this does *not* happen.
To keep up the pressure.
To *fill* politicians’ inboxes with letters – real physical letters with stamps and signatures.
To front up to politicians when they are meeting the constituency.
To let them know, day in and day out, that when they propose to do something sensible – like this – that they are *supported*.
PS
Defeatism and despair, at this stage of the game, are a deadly temptation… and for anyone here to give in to that temptation is to risk *producing* the outcome that one merely pretends to predict. I call it ‘feeding the Dementors’.
Don’t.
A post like yours runs the risk of conditioning Aussie readers to *give up* and do nothing.
If we *do nothing*, if we shut up, throw our hands in the air and say ‘nothing can be done, nothing will be done’, then that is… fatalism.
But if people *refuse* to give up and start making noise and get behind any halfway intelligent self-preservation measure and PUSH, then things can change and *could* change, surprisingly fast.
I hereby declare that *my* letter to the immigration minister will be in the post on its way to Canberra within the next three days.
Who’s prepared to say and do the same?
linnte says
Right on Dumbledore! I am not going to lay back and see the USA converted to Islam either! As professor Dumbledore said, “it is not by a person’s abilities that shows who they are, it is their CHOICES”!
David says
But first off: why let these evil vile beastly creatures into your civilised country at all? There is no moral obligation to invite or shelter this savage filth to begin with!
It boggles the mind. It seems so very simple. Don’t let them in. And round up and deport all you can find now. For the safety of all.
what’s the hold up?????
bdcorvette says
Aussie are much smarter than Americans.
Marie says
The government should have cancelled their passports ages ago ! Come on Dutton , you have the powers to do this and also REVOKE Citizenships it’s in the Constitution !. what are you waiting for ?
Prince Innocent uzoukwu says
I am sure the pro Muslim British government will put pressure on Australia to abandon the idea. See how the British government is supporting Islam to take over Christian Biafra land in former Nigeria. The jihadist Muslim Northerners are killing and wiping out Christian towns and villages while our BBC is sweeping the news under carpet.
Queen Jenevere says
As an Australian I will believe when I see it… Turnbull is WEAK -Too much like Cameron… I doubt very much if even a handful will go back….