They all had dual nationality; no one was rendered stateless. In any case, all Western nations should follow this example, but most of them are too afraid of appearing “Islamophobic” even to take basic measures to protect their own people.
“Thirteen terrorists have just been stripped of Belgian nationality,” translated from “Treize terroristes viennent d’être déchus de la nationalité belge,” Le Vif, February 14, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
The Brussels Court of Appeal has just stripped Belgian nationality by default of 13 people convicted of terrorism, La Libre Belgique reported on Monday. The texts were published today in the Belgian Official Gazette.
The forfeiture of nationality is a supervised measure which can only concern dual nationals. It is excluded to create stateless persons, recalls the newspaper.
Twelve of the 13 nationality disqualifications concern men who had joined the jihadist ranks in Syria between the end of December 2012 and December 2014. The 13th had joined Afghanistan in 2007. They were removed from the municipal registers.
These 13 dual nationals, Belgian-Moroccans for the vast majority, have all been convicted by default in Belgium for terrorism.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer draws the right conclusion again: “all Western nations should follow this example” … i.e. the other Western governments should be stripping jihadists of their citizenship and shipping them to their countries of origin or wherever they can get a visa. This should be routine, because jihadists do not fear prison or death … However, they do fear being re-patriated.
There appears to be a growing trend in Europe against the spread of Islam which is clearly hostile to European cultures. We are seeing the result of this trend now in Belgium, just as we have seen this impatience growing in Denmark. We will soon find out how the trend is affecting the French elections.
Apparently, the French are now at the breaking point with real, jihadic Islam. The French voters are obviously saying they want Muslim immigration to stop.
Islamic law and Islamic culture is entirely ‘KAFIR-O-PHOBIC’ (hatred directed from Muslims against the non-Muslim kafirs). Thus, Islam’s legal system and Islam’s culture have NOTHING in them that is good for the kafir.
Pious Muslims shouldn’t mix with kafirs socially, and they refuse to assimilate because Sharia tells them not to. Furthermore, the Muslim social network is exclusive for Muslims and doesn’t allow non-Muslim kafirs to be part of it.
Having a large Muslim community in any nation means having an exclusive, hostile society, culture and alternative ‘nation’ growing in a country. The Islamic ‘nation’ is constantly planning and trying to take over the culture and then sideline and crush the host culture.
Europeans are starting to wake up to these facts in large numbers.
john smith says
Mortimer, I do hope your right about Europeans waking up to in large numbers.
Melc says
They are waking up but their governments are hostile to its own citizens and hails them if they point out the dangers of radical Islam. Look at what happened to Tommy Robinson.
Michael says
You are right. I worked and stayed with very friendly and moderate Muslims in Algiers, many times in the 70s and 90s.
Ramadan was treated like a holiday, (turning up late to work, binging at night), few women wore veils, many women worked, no-one prayed at work, few attended the mosque until ca 1993.
I assume my contemporaries have not changed. But the young have been radicalised by the Saudi sponsored schools and the lack of jobs and accommodation. .
The population more than doubled between 1970 and 2000, in spite of the exodus of millions to France, Spain and Italy.
Keith O says
Are they being relocated to a friendly sharia compliant nation like Germany or England?
Personally, I believe they should be deported to the perfect islamic paradise, HELL!
PMK says
It’s not clear from the article whether or not they will be deported at all.
In my view, no one on Earth should be a dual national. It shows divided loyalties. How do you know which side they will choose when the chips are down? No dual national should hold elective office, ever. Their oath of allegiance is suspect.
Michael Copeland says
“convicted by default”. It seems this may mean they are not even present.
Perhaps they are in Syria, or dead.
john smith says
This is a very small step, buts lets hope it’s a start for much bigger ones.
Infidel says
Good for that Belgian court, but will they be deported back to dar ul islam?
Jaydam says
No Infidel,
They will probably be deported to one of hundreds of UK towns and city’s that are infested with Muslim cockroaches.