Six families of French jihadis captured during Islamic State’s retreat filed a complaint Wednesday demanding that the government bring them home, a week after a video of two notorious European extremists renewed the debate over how hundreds of foreign Islamic State fighters should be handled.
There is no limit to the audacity and entitlements of jihadists, despite their unspeakable crimes against innocent people. Yet Western government leaders continue to appease and encourage them. Take Canada as an example: Trudeau wants to reintegrate Islamic State fighters back into Canadian society, and Liberal MP Chris Bittle labelled anti-Islamic State protesters in his constituency of St. Catherines as “white supremacists.”
In France, military chief Florence Parly stated what should be obvious to these leaders, and to every Westerner:
I remind you that these people took the initiative to join a terrorist organization that was engaged in combat in that zone, and that committed and continues to seek to commit attacks in France.”
Sadly, in too many Western nations, leaders are putting the rights of brutal jihadists ahead of national security and above the rights of law-abiding citizens.
“Families of Captive French Islamic State Jihadis Sue to Bring them Back to Europe”, Breitbart, January 17, 2018:
PARIS (AP) — Six families of French jihadis captured during Islamic State’s retreat filed a complaint Wednesday demanding that the government bring them home, a week after a video of two notorious European extremists renewed the debate over how hundreds of foreign Islamic State fighters should be handled.
The complaint, filed by families of French women and children held by Kurdish militias, condemned what it called “deliberate inertia” by French authorities, saying it had left mothers and children — including infants — vulnerable to the risks of living in a war zone.
Yet in an interview in Monday’s Liberation newspaper, France’s military chief Florence Parly said she sees no reason to bring French jihadis home for trial. She says only 20 returned to France last year, while Belgium’s top security official has said only five of the country’s foreign fighters returned in 2017.
“The pseudo-Caliphate no longer controls territory, but this terrorist movement will without a doubt pursue its goals clandestinely,” Parly said. “For those French who are detained in the Levant, I remind you that these people took the initiative to join a terrorist organization that was engaged in combat in that zone, and that committed and continues to seek to commit attacks in France.”
Last week, prompted by Kurdish interviewers, French detainees Emilie Konig and Thomas Barnouin appeared on separate videos with nearly identical messages, insisting they are being treated well by the militia holding them.
The videos appeared intended to counter the allegations that Kurdish militia, known as the People’s Defense Units, or YPG, were mistreating Islamic State recruits — including women — captured when the extremist group retreated. They also lay the groundwork for trials of Europeans by an entity that has no internationally recognized government, much less legal system.
“The investigation is a normal process. It is hard to experience it this way. But it is just an ordinary investigation process consisting of questions and answers. Nothing else,” Konig said in halting Arabic, wearing a pale pink hoodie with her hair and face unveiled.
A veteran of France’s jihadi movement, Konig was famous for provocative public appearances in a fully-body niqab, which she referred to as a “second skin” just before leaving for Syria in 2012 to join the Islamic State group. She also was filmed in two propaganda videos the following year. She called on French Muslims to attack their homeland and is listed as a key recruiter for IS by the U.N. and the U.S. government.
According to the YPG, she was arrested on Dec. 12, 2017. Since then, she says in a French-language portion of the video, she has been treated well and has everything she needs.
“I’ve had no problems since my arrest. I’ve always been treated properly, they provide drinks, food, cigarettes. I’ve never had any problems and, God willing, I’ve never had any injustice,” she said.
Konig’s lawyer in France declined repeated requests for comment. She left two children behind in France and has two children with her in Syria, according to an interview with her mother in the newspaper Ouest-France.
The YPG said Barnouin was arrested while trying to escape into Turkey with five other French Islamic State recruits, echoing the Kurdish contention that Turkey remains a key conduit for extremists in transit. Speaking in English with repeated prompting by an interviewer, Barnouin also said he was being treated properly and, looking down, said he regretted joining the group.
Like Konig, the 36-year-old Frenchman was a convert whose ties to extremism date back years. He has been linked to both Mohammed Merah — the slain extremist who attacked French paratroopers and a Jewish school in 2012 — and to Fabien Clain, who was behind the Islamic State claim of responsibility for the deadly November 2015 attacks in Paris. Clain remains missing.
“We thought that if we surrender to YPG we could be tortured and even be killed,” Barnouin says in English. He said he would have surrendered, rather than be captured, “if we knew that YPG would treat us like this.”
The fate of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq is unclear. In Syria, they are being held by a militia with no official international recognition, while in Iraq they face the death penalty.
The United States has relied on the YPG — the backbone of a Syrian force that drove the Islamic State group from much of northern and eastern Syria with the help of U.S.-led airstrikes. The U.S. says the militia will lead a 30,000-strong border security force in Syria. That prompted threats from Turkey to launch a new military offensive against the group, which Turkey considers to be terrorists because of their affiliation with outlawed Kurdish rebels fighting Turkey.
Parly’s comments aside, France has kept silent about the issue…..
StellaSaidSo says
Exactement, Mme Parly. They chose to leave France in order to join the same terrorist organisation which is committed to carrying out terrorist acts in France. Let them remain in detention, and give their families a one-way ticket to join them there.
mortimer says
Does France not have ENOUGH TERRORISTS in metropolitan France already? Do they want to import MORE terrorists?
HIRE MORE POLICE, then!
StellaSaidSo says
In Paris, the Police, the Gendarmes, and the Army, patrol airports and gares in groups of three, all armed to the teeth. Same in other major cities. The numbers on the ground have increased significantly since 2015. On the one hand, their presence is reassuring, on the other it is disturbing; disturbing that it should be necessary.
Native Jo says
Aren’t they considered deserters?
MFritz says
It’s not that they FEEL entitled – who cares – it’s that our politicians MADE them entitled.
vyx says
Exactly. If the politicians were not 100% pro Muslim 24/7/365, no matter how many acts of terror they commit and citizens they kill, perhaps they would not feel free to ask for anything, no matter how insane.
Allen Sistrunk says
In islam muslims are all taught that they are the supreme race like Nazism But even more EVIL if it’s possible, islam is a beast system!!!
Native Jo says
Yep, the u.s. has entitled illegal aliens so much that they demand amnesty.
infidel numero uno says
I agree, they should be brought home……in body bags!!
libertyORdeath says
Even that’s too good for them. They should be executed by firing squad or hanging immediately and buried wherever the YPG see fit. Terrorist prisoners are not POW’s and are not protected by the Geneva convention thus no need for a trial at all. The YPG are obviously more humane than they are given credit for…i know I would be far less so if I were facing these savages everyday for years now.
France should definitely not accept the remains of any terrorists nor their pleas for mercy. In fact any of the families that are not French citizens should be deported.
CRUSADER says
Islam creates a merciless culture which promotes bullying of those who are perceived as lesser.
It’s France’s fault if it shows lots of weakness, as the system will only become overwhelmed by Moslem efforts to undermine it all and press where there are weak links in the chain of society….
It just shows French people are readying for Dhimmi-status.
mortimer says
Don’t underestimate France. The French realize they are the Number One target of ISIS.
CRUSADER says
Let’s just see how the French as a whole handle CREEPING SHARIAH….
StellaSaidSo says
The French people are more awake than you think.
Macron won because he cheated.
Linde Barrera says
Any country that allows these wretched filthy beings to return after serving ISIS should be boycotted by tourists. Nobody put a gun to the heads of these ISIS/terrorist-loving folks and demanded they leave France (or whatever European nation) to fight for ISIS. Furthermore, that moronic European Union should state that these ISIS fighters cannot come back, they must stay where they are. AND, the Syrian and Iraqi jails holding these creeps should be playing in Arabic “If It Takes Forever I Will Wait for You.” ??
StellaSaidSo says
The UK govt allowed 400 ISIS jihadis to return to Britain recently, and promptly lost track of most of them. Mayor Khan of London said he didn’t have enough police to pursue missing terrorists.
But Theresa the Appeaser managed to find 900 plod to monitor nasty comments on Facebook.
mortimer says
Thanks for that: “Theresa the Appeas-ah”.
gravenimage says
Yes–more suicidal madness.
WorkingClassPost says
Rather than bringing the jihadis back here, a better use of taxpayer funds might be to fly the families out there (one way, of course).
Buraq says
Bring them all home – in boxes! Clowns!
LeftisruiningCanada says
“She left two children behind in France and has two children with her in Syria, according to an interview with her mother in the newspaper Ouest-France.”
Double Plus UnGood.
CRUSADER says
French town of Beaucaire needs our support.
I don’t care much for the word CAIR, except in the name of this town managed by a bright mayor.
I would order actual Freedom Fries to celebrate more French towns that made such distinctions.
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Julien Sanchez is being charged with “islamophobia” when all he is trying to do is preserve France’s cultural character.
Is it illegal to bring a lunch from home if you don’t like what the school is serving? Demanding that the schools accommodate Islamic food laws is just another declaration of supremacism and demand that Muslims be given special privileges that others do not have. This story says that Jewish parents are outraged along with Muslims, but that is wildly unlikely: Jews have lived in France for centuries without ever becoming outraged over French cuisine, or making demands that everything be changed to accommodate them.
Julien Sanchez is right, and he will be reviled mercilessly for it.
“‘Breach of children’s rights!’ —
Anger as French hard-wing mayor bans pork-free school meals,”
by Romina McGuinness, Express:
> A HARD-RIGHT French mayor was branded an Islamophobe on Monday after he scrapped pork-free school meals.
Critics said that the decision to stop serving substitute meals “stigmatised” Muslims, and that the mayor could not hide behind the country’s secular laws.
Julien Sanchez, the mayor of the southern French town of Beaucaire, announced shortly before the Christmas break schools would stop serving substitute meals on the first day of the new school term, sparking outrage among Muslim and Jewish parents.
Mr Sanchez, told a local daily when announcing the new menu policy last month, said: “Pork-free substitution meals are anti-Republican.”
The change came into effect on Monday and affects some 150 – mainly Muslim – pupils out of 600 local students in total.
School cafeterias will serve pork on Mondays to give parents the weekend to prepare an alternative meal, Mr Sanchez said.
Parents opposed to the mayor’s decision have called for protests outside the Beaucaire town hall next Monday.
Laure Cordelet, the head of a local opposition group, said that the mayor’s move “breached children’s rights” and “stigmatised the local Maghreb [north African] community”.
The decision, she added, “can in no way be justified in the name of secularism”.
Mr Sanchez, for his part, told France Info radio on Tuesday that he was “not an Islamophobe”.
He said: “If you defend the values of the Republic and fight against communitarianism you’re branded an Islamophobe, which I am not. I’m not scared of anyone but I’m also not looking to stigmatise anyone.
“What’s wrong with pork? If it was a medical issue then I could understand, but the issue we’re dealing with here is religious, not medical… And religion has no place in schools.”… <
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( — report from Pamela Geller)
HALTING CREEPING SHARIAH
LeftisruiningCanada says
““If you defend the values of the Republic and fight against **communitarianism** you’re branded an Islamophobe, which I am not. I’m not scared of anyone but I’m also not looking to stigmatise anyone.”
That’s exactly what it is. Good on this man.
simpleton1 says
A “Declaration of War” was issued by them.
As if they or their family ever cared about their so called home land.
The French Courts should be looking to put charges and arrest.
If not, then why is not the International Criminal Court (ICC) calling out for their arrest and to press charges. The international tribunal that sits in The Hague in the Netherlands. The ICC has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Then again it is just another bureaucracy of the EU that only moves when it suits the power concepts of the EU.
gravenimage says
France: Families of Islamic State captives jihadis sue to bring them back to Europe
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Of course these Muslims want their Jihadi relatives back in France. How else are they supposed to murder French Infidels?
Unknown says
Bringing them back in a coffin would still bring them back…
John says
Bring them Back?? just use Common Sense and BAN ISLAM. quran 5:46 “SAHIH INTERNATIONAL
And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light and confirming that which preceded it of the Torah as guidance and instruction for the righteous.” allah llied to muhammad and thus muhammad is not to be trusted or muhammad made allah up in his deluded mind as Jesus had been DEAD for over 50 Years before the Gospels were written. What more PROOF does the Western World need to believe that islam is SATANIC .