This is a common sense move that other Western nations should emulate. These jihadis voluntarily joined an entity that is avowedly at war with their “home” countries. Letting them back in would be akin to Britain allowing British Nazis who went to Germany back into the country in 1942.
“Eight Brussels jihadists given eight days to hold on to their Belgian nationality,” Brussels Times, July 30, 2020 (thanks to Henry):
Eight Islamic State (IS) supporters from Brussels have been stripped of their Belgian nationality, in the latest move by a Belgian court to keep foreign terrorist fighters from returning to the country.
The decision to strip the eight fighters of their nationality was taken in absentia by the Brussels Court of Appeal, which also sentenced them to at least five years imprisonment.
The whereabouts of the eight men is unknown and they no longer have any known addresses abroad or in Belgium, which they are thought to have left to go join the ranks of the IS in Syria and Iraq.
The eight convicts, all from Brussels, now have eight days to appeal the decision before it becomes final, Le Soir reports.
Seven of them had already been tried and sentenced in absentia in the 2015 terrorism trial of Khalid Zerkani, sentenced for radicalising and recruiting at least 59 youths, mostly from the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek, between 2012 and 2013….