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by splintercell 1916 days ago
> I don't want a ISIS member coming back to the UK.

A lot of ISIS members came back, they faced persecution, some even death sentence but none had their citizenship stripped.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-k-strips-citizenship-is...

> If they were born in the US, they would have just been assassinated by drone strike instead like they did with Anwar al-Awlaki.

Yes, but the point is, is there are a legal treatment which is different for people who have been living here for generations vs those whose parents became a citizen in their lifetimes.

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> A lot of ISIS members came back, they faced persecution, some even death sentence but none had their citizenship stripped. > https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-k-strips-citizenship-is...

Well they shouldn't have been let back in anyway. I also have no sympathy for a woman that said she felt nothing when she saw severed heads (of people executed by ISIS). Also there are claims that she enforced some of the Sharia laws and wasn't a passive member of the Caliphate.

She revoked her citizenship when she left.

> Yes, but the point is, is there are a legal treatment which is different for people who have been living here for generations vs those whose parents became a citizen in their lifetimes.

No there is a different legal treatment for people that join a rogue state which literally wants to destroy yours. I don't care about these people. Her supporters can cry racism all they want, It isn't racism. We don't want terrorists back in the country.

You keep avoiding the answer in the guise of "well I would have done X". The question is simple, how come she lost her citizenship but other ISIS fighters of British ethnicity didn't?