Luckily, Johnson’s plan was blocked by his cabinet, but Lord, what fools these Infidels be. What could possibly have gone wrong with this plan? Plenty. Many of the children of Islamic State jihadis have themselves been trained to hate and kill, and to see the world as a battleground between Muslims and unbelievers. What are the chances of their becoming loyal, productive British citizens?
“Revealed: Cabinet at war over Boris Johnson’s plans to send the SAS into Syria to bring 30 Isis children back to Britain,” by Harry Cole, The Mail On Sunday, September 28, 2019 (thanks to Henry):
Boris Johnson is drawing up plans to send the SAS into Syria to bring back the British children of Islamic State fighters, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The controversial repatriation scheme has sparked a major Cabinet rift inside the Government’s top secret National Security Council (NSC), where there is currently deadlock on the issue.
It is understood that there are about 30 minors with claims to UK citizenship in camps in northern Syria. They were born to British parents who joined ISIS.
Following tense talks at two meetings of the NSC in recent weeks, a final decision on whether to deploy British troops and officials to repatriate the children back is expected early next month.
Even if given the green light, only those aged 16 and under would be extracted, but the Prime Minister is facing fierce pressure to abandon the plan over safety and legal concerns.
One Government figure claimed Mr Johnson was ‘wavering’ but another suggested the PM was ‘minded to’ give the go-ahead. Downing Street is likely to be furious that details of talks at the NSC, which is made up of the Cabinet’s most senior Ministers and the heads of the security services, have emerged.
Participants are bound by the strictest code of secrecy and the then Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson was sacked in April after being accused by Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill of leaking details of a NSC meeting about the Chinese technology giant Huawei. He denied the claim.
It is understood that support for the repatriation plan is being led by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and International Development Secretary Alok Sharma.
Chancellor Sajid Javid, Home Secretary Priti Patel and Defence Secretary Ben Wallace are opposed, while Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom and Trade Secretary Liz Truss, who also sit on the committee, are described as ‘indifferent’….
A Government source said: ‘The Americans are leading the charge on this, pointing out what happens when these kids grow up radicalised. It’s a major headache now but just wait until a Briton cuts the head off an American.’…
Last night a Whitehall source said: ‘It’s all very well virtue signalling now about bringing them home, but some of these children are now teenagers and have spent their formative years playing with AKs [AK47 assault rifles]. It might be cheered now but when one of them blows up a shopping centre, who is going to get the blame?’
Why, “Islamophobes,” of course.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I wonder how many of those 30 were involved in jihadi killings/executions.
Minor NOT = Innocence. Poor assumption on Bo Jo’s part, or maybe he made a deal.
gravenimage says
Good question, Flavius. A lot of these ‘children’ have been taught to kill.
Charles Lutz says
Flavius: Quem deus vult perdere prius dementat.
Angemon says
Couldn’t have said better myself – and this was what popped up in my head as I read the article: virtue-signalling and the possibility of the “rescued” children waging jihad in British soil.
European pagan says
Islamic State children under 3 years are innocent, I would take only them. I’m sure someone would adopt them.
MS MADELEINE DUNN says
yes, I agree, take the babies, but don’t put them in islamic families – that is tricky
gravenimage says
Yes–if they are placed with Muslim families they will in almost all cases be taught Jihad.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article,
“only those aged 16 and under would be extracted…”
I think that Boris Johnson means well but… I think that he is off base on this one. By age 16, a very large percent of a person’s psychosocial development has already occurred. And living in Syria with ISIS members is a horrific environment…
It’s just too risky to bring these so-called “children” back to UK soil…
Wellington says
Why?
Dawne Swift says
Boris is no doubt being pushed into this idea by his seemingly touchy-feely girlfriend. I didn’t vote for him for Conservative leader, I voted for Raab and interesting to see that Raab also supports this idea. My vote (card carrying Conservative – though now voting TBP) – will go to Priti Patel in any future leadership contest. She is increasingly looking to be made of the same stuff as Maggie T.
Spiro says
Sure !! Bring them all back so they can get some freebies rest and recover
For their next jihad attack after all what’s a good useful idiot supposed to do In the meantime bring the persucted Christians out of the Middle East war zone oh wait they don’t count
Only the murdering Moslems after all
Is there any sane people left
Janice Mermikli says
It seems that none of our politicians care about the embattled and persecuted Christians of the Middle East.
Christopher Watson says
Good point. When Boris was criticizing May we all felt he was made of better stuff but now he is PM the burka criticism has stopped and the moslem immigration is now OK. We now hear there may be another ‘extension’ to Brexit. Do we have ANY politicians with a pair?
gravenimage says
Boris Johnson planned to send special forces into Syria to bring 30 Islamic State children back to UK
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Oh, good grief–and here, I had long thought that Boris Johnson was the sanest of mainstream politicians in Britain. Recently, not so much…
Michael Copeland says
This is the same Boris Johnson who supported an “amnesty” for illegal aliens.
“Amnesty” translated is capitulation, dereliction of duty, and failure to uphold the law.
Infidel says
One thing that strikes me about the Tories is Sajid Javed being pretty anti-Islamic when it comes to many issues – grooming gangs, return of ISIS fighters and so on. Who’d have thought that a Paki would come up w/ that?
Janice Mermikli says
Sajid Javid is married to a Christian and their children are baptized Christians. He is only nominally Muslim.
He is intelligent and able, and I wouldn’t mind seeing him as Prime Minister, though I have no tribal affiliation to any political party.
Infidel says
That explains a whole lot about him, then. I always wondered why he was the only Tory who gave a damn about the victims of ‘grooming gangs’ (an euphamism, if there ever was one, for gang rapists)
gravenimage says
I don’t think we want *any* Muslims at 10 Downing Street.
Gfmucci says
BREXIT = good; Pandering to Muslim of any age = bad. Johnson is half sane.
Janice Mermikli says
The problem with Boris Johnson is that he is inconsistent, impulsive and unpredictable. He is totally unsuitable for the post of Prime Minister.
Anne Smith says
He has a Muslim great grandfather – a Turkish Politician who had to flee for his life from Turkey to Europe.
The unexpected voice says
Oh, that’s explain a lot. I think he’s worse than May or Cameron.
Infidel says
I get why Brexit is good in terms of freeing the UK from bureaucratic hyper-activists in Brussels, but how does it go any distance in addressing the UK’s Islamization problem? All those Pakistani and Bangladeshi hovels all over England have nothing to do w/ Britain’s EU membership, but everything to do w/ the UK’s love-affair w/ its colonial heritage
Honestly, w/ the exceptions of countries that are Britain-copies – Canada, Australia and New Zealand – they need to let it go! That’ll help them say no to Muslims coming in from anywhere!
gravenimage says
The EU pushes bringing in Muslims–but sadly, Britain has been doing a lot of that on its own. Certainly, a lot of Britons have supported Brexit in the hope that it will end–or at least slow–Muslims invading there.
The unexpected voice says
The UK has inner problem too like Cameron May and now Boris Johnson. There’s also a islamist traitor : Khan much like Ilhan Omar in USA.
Arthur says
bearded children again?
They already brought few hundreds of them from Calais, one built a bomb, few became gang members
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Is the SAS likely to find these children all nicely waiting for them in one place, or scattered singly across many different camps? How many members of the SAS might be wounded or killed trying to rescue people whose claim to be British ended when their parents brought them to the Islamic State. Forget any such “rescue.” It is unclear what these 16plus ‘children’ think, but some of them, at least, are likely to be and remain true Believers. Their future lives, in unpleasant Islamic places instead of England’s green and pleasant land, are a direct consequence of choices their parents made. Let their parents think about that.
gravenimage says
Yes–how many Britons might be wounded or killed in such an endeavor?
Marigold says
The Jesuits said “Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man” so there will be little hope for the older children . The UK government has created a terrible problem for itself allowing Muslims into the UK in the first place.