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Posted on 09/01/2014 3:08:17 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, told a crowd of 3,000 at a conservative summit in Dallas that Americans fighting with Islamic State militants should be exiled from the country saying, “we need to not let into this country any American who is fighting with ISIS.”
But some conservative politicians say that banishing American jihadists doesn’t go far enough, and that those who leave the country to fight for militant groups like the Islamic State, Hamas, or al Qaeda should be stripped of their citizenship.
On Friday, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in neighboring New Hampshire, called for Congress to pass legislation to strip “homegrown terrorists” of their American citizenship.
“One of the greatest threats facing the homeland today is the mayhem that will happen when hundreds of American ISIS fighters return to the United States to spread their terror here. Their goal is to march down Pennsylvania Avenue and plant a flag at the White House, and mass killing is their means for achieving that goal,” Mr. Brown said in a statement Friday.
The Islamic State, as its name implies, sees itself as not a terror group but a legitimate state, the successor to the Islamic caliphate. Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hasan asked for citizenship in the caliphate last week.
Conservative commentator Allen West of Florida made the same argument as Mr. Brown Tuesday in a blog post discussing British Muslims’ involvement in terrorist groups when he wrote that more U.K. citizens are joining Islamic State forces than are signing up for the country’s own armed forces.
“Here is the deal. There has to be a law clearly defining that on this 21st Century battlefield, if you depart your country of citizenship and travel to ally with Islamic
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Does this mean we cut off Baraq’s POTUS pension when he becomes Grand Caliph of ISIS in Jan 2017?
Banishing them is a no-brainer.. but will it be done? Of course not.. We’re living in ObamaNation.
I agree...with him...as usual.
As always...sounds reasonable to me.
Go Ted go! Take America back! Crush islam and satan!
i want them dead.
Who said they must come home. They must be killed to the man.
How about all Islamics banned from the country? Buh bye.
Yep, and in ObamaNation the opposite is happening.
John Walker Lindh fought for the Taliban, and was tried for treason if I recall correctly. He got a 20,year priison sentence. Realistically we won’t revoke citizenship from these people. As far as I know Lindh will still be an American citizen when he gets out of prison.
I agree we should banish them and say they give up citizenship if they go fight for ISIS. But it won’t happen.
Not let them in? They should be arrested.
Cruz continues to say the right things!
Much like Britain’s choosing to do as well...IF they can pull it off...... Legally possible if it’s “temporary”....but otherwise they will have human rights activists and organizations coming down hard.
I’m so very sick and tired of people not integrating into their nations of choice and instead politicians and courts playing their games of “human rights” and all the other blather.
But then cramming our courts full of this nonesense is exactly part of the Islamic Stealth Jihad. Liberal’s call it fairness.
Hang them by the neck until their bodies are eaten by buzzards. Traitors.
I’m confused. Isn’t joining and fighting for a terrorist organization already a US crime?
Moral or material support. Knowingly harboring or abetting the same.
Strip them of their citizenship. If they are born in the U.S., they lose all privileges of citizenship, and are highly encouraged to immigrate to a Muslim country.
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