I tried to keep out of this thread, but some of the comments and insults at each other made me want to speak up.
Its an incredibly emotive subject, people will have been personally affected by ISIS. I’m an ex soldier (left before the Afghan tours started), I know people who didn’t return from their tours and people who have lost limbs. One of my close friends watched as troops under his command stood on a land mine. He suffers very bad PTSD and depression. I could go on. We have seen some horrific killings in this country, whether that is bombings, stabbings or car ram raids. Other western countries have had a similar experience if not worse than the UK.
While this young girl as an individual is not solely responsible, she supports those activities. She left her country to go to a war zone to support a religious / militant organisation that has declared war against this country. In my view she is an Idealist Jihadist, her way of supporting this ideology (the war to make Gods War the only Law on Earth) was to travel to the Levant or caliphate and to support the soldiers she see’s as fighting for her ideology.
The question about whether she should be allowed back to this country? The one she has left, the one that she knowingly went to a military organisation at war with our country? Yes, she should be allowed back. She should face trial, but that wouldn’t happen. We are to weak a country to deal with it, we will kick up a fuss, say she is not going to be allowed back in, then lawyers will get involved and she will return. She will get a free house, free health service and free education (paid for by the people she has declared war on – and I know people will say she hasn’t declared war – she joined the organisation who had)
My inside says NOT A CHANCE, she shouldn’t be allowed back. She should rot in the hole she has dug for herself. But, that really is just a case of us resorting to the most base level and we should be better than that.
(I do know ISIS are a relatively new organisation and not the same as Al-Qaeda or the Taliban even if there are links or similarities, I imagine the British public will just be thinking that we (the West) have been targeted by Islamic Fundamentalists for close to two decades)