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Australia: Islamic State jihadi Khaled Sharrouf first to lose citizenship under anti-terror laws

Feb 19, 2017 8:51 am By Robert Spencer

There. Was that so hard? The idea that these enemy combatants should be welcomed back after they have joined up with an entity that has repeatedly declared that it is at war with the West is beyond absurd, but it is the prevailing view in Europe and North America.

“Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf becomes first to lose citizenship under anti-terror laws,” by Jane Norman and Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC.net.au, February 10, 2017:

Australian Islamic State (IS) fighter Khaled Sharrouf has become the first dual national to be stripped of their citizenship under the Federal Government’s anti-terror laws.

National security sources confirmed to the ABC the 35-year-old’s citizenship had been revoked, meaning he cannot legally return to Australia if he chooses to leave the Middle East.

The convicted terrorist slipped out of Australia in 2013 using his brother’s passport and travelled to Syria with fellow Sydney man Mohamed Elomar to join the Islamic State terrorist group.

The pair shot to global infamy the following year when photos were posted online of them, and Sharrouf’s seven-year-old son, holding the severed heads of pro-Syrian Government soldiers.

Amid concerns about the threat posed by returning foreign fighters, Federal Parliament passed tough counter-terrorism laws in 2015, giving the Immigration Minister the power to strip the citizenship from dual nationals involved in terrorism.

A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed a person involved in overseas terrorism had had their citizenship cancelled, but would not reveal that person’s identity….

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  1. Oliver says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 9:00 am

    Is his brother still living in Australia. And the mother of his child.

    Hopefully Australia will keep the child out also . The world’s greatest twentieth century psychiatrist put it bluntly. Give me a child from birth to 5 and I will have a Nazi for life.

    Adolf Hitler

    • TR says

      Feb 20, 2017 at 9:18 am

      Nits Make Lice!

  2. Frank Anderson says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 9:35 am

    For multiple centuries, pirates lost all rights of citizenship because they were at war with all humanity. Hostus humanus generis (sp?) Enemy of all mankind. Where is the difference between pirates at sea and terrorists on land or in the air? The only one I can see is the location of the universally murderous acts. Why should anyone wring hands in indecision about people who will kill anyone for any excuse? The US criminal law stated in 18 United States Code Section 2: “Anyone who aids, abets counsels or acts in furtherance of a crime is equally guilty. . .” Whether recruiting suckers to send into combat, raising funds for mass murder, planning and encouraging terrorist acts or just pulling the trigger or pressing the switch of a bomb, all in the chain are equally guilty. Citizenship is a precious right that should become more precious when it can be lost by engaging in terror. Only fools fail to see that “rights” from whatever source are not a suicide pact that allows the “presumption of innocence” to totally overcome basic common sense.

  3. nicu says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 10:09 am

    Great job Australia , again !

    and they tell us it’s not possible here – only Turks have double citizenship 🙁

    • Lioness says

      Feb 20, 2017 at 1:30 pm

      In Canada, our previous great Conservative PM, Stephen Harper, enacted the same kind of law, but when idiot Trudeau was elected he reversed it. Now terrorists are welcome back with open arms.

  4. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 10:11 am

    One to add to Trump’s list?

  5. mortimer says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 10:58 am

    Now all other Western countries need to remove citizenship from jihadists.

    Send them to Berzerkistan or to a Devil’s Island to isolate them from society so they cannot promote this Death Cult/Murder Cult.

    • Oliver says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 11:10 am

      The liberturd elites would have none of this.

      They want a world without borders.

      Read SULTAN KNISH Column of Feb 18, 2017

      great analysis of this (elites-and why they hate trump, Brexit etc, oh, yes- why they hate people

      • Oliver says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 11:13 am

        They the elites will tie up the court system- while judge/judicial area shopping to find a friendly anal pore judge/judges like the Ninth Circus.

        Which incidentally, has been fighting a proposal to break it into 2- creating a new (12th) Circuit.

        The 9th has power OVER ABOUT 20% OF THE U.S. POPULATION, STRETCHING FROM THE GRAND CANYON TO (NORTH) ALASKA, WEST TO THE MARIANA ISLANDS. (plus, of course, the Pacific northwest).

        • Kay says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 12:20 pm

          That’s too much power.

        • Oliver says

          Feb 19, 2017 at 8:29 pm

          Kay-that is why for the past few years some members of Congress and people in some western states are pushing- and have been ( but the 9th Circus has been fighting them) for a new circuit court.

  6. somehistory says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 11:49 am

    Are there still uninhabited atolls where bombs are tested? Perfect place for satan’s children until they meet the ultimate Judgment. The Judgment that is coming.

  7. davej says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 1:11 pm

    Monitor the Mosques – if you preach anti-semitism, Sharia law or death to infidels you automatically lose citizenship and get deported.

    • jd says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 3:23 pm

      Deportation and lose of mosque, just like ha club houses!

  8. Angemon says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 2:33 pm

    May he be the first of many.

  9. Susette says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    Yes, Australia!!! Great policy to rebuke terrorism. Hope Trump doesn’t continue to alienate them. We need these kinds of allies.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 4:38 pm

      Didn’t Turnbull recently tried to have Trump take in the 1250 “refugees” Obama pledged to take out of Australia’s hands?

      • JIMJFOX says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 8:01 pm

        Can’t blame him- we don’t want these fuckers. Guantanamo,anyone?

      • JIMJFOX says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 8:01 pm

        Can’t blame him- we don’t want these fuckers. Guantanamo, anyone?
        Gotta keep Amnesty International happy!!

      • Oliver says

        Feb 19, 2017 at 8:35 pm

        I think that the 1,250 (or a large number of them) are prisoners/convicts/felons. Not sure.

    • Oliver says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 8:34 pm

      Sussette-The day that Trump SUPPOSEDLY slammed the phone down, the Australian PM gave a press conference .

      I HEARD PARTS OF IT. HE WAS ASKED A COUPLE OF TIMES- DID TRUMP SLAM THE PHONE DOWN. The conversation was supposed to be UP TO AN HOUR. (The lame stream media kept saying ” an hour-” leaving out the two other words).

      His response- they discussed the issues. They disagreed. They decided that they will both consider the other’s views, and discuss it further. The conversation ended cordially.

      THEY HUNG UP. He then (my impression-somewhat sarcastically-) said, isn’t that what people do when a phone conversation ends?

      He did not seem perturbed. I think John McCain was more upset- for whatever reson- then the Australian P. M.

  10. Mockingjay says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 7:19 pm

    Uh-oh – if Pope Francis will hear about this, he surely will lecture Australia on its intolerant xenophobia, which, as he said, will only make the “fundamentalists and violent individuals” gain strength…

  11. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 7:59 pm

    Deported, passport/citizenship revoked- result? Highly likely death with Daesh.

    Allowed to return, imprisoned; a comfortable cell with TV, internet and endless ‘radicalisation’ chances.
    No-Brainer?

  12. Mark A says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 1:21 am

    A good start.

    But now let’s see whether he actually gets deported. My guess is that he won’t.

    • Steve B says

      Feb 20, 2017 at 2:06 am

      Mark, I think the article said he was currently out of the country, and Canada will not let him return.

      • Steve B says

        Feb 20, 2017 at 2:09 am

        sorry, Australia

  13. Banana Bender says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 5:05 pm

    May this savage be the first of many! I do NOT support dual citizenship.

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