Ted Cruz wants U.S. citizens fighting with Islamic State banished from country

Washington Times ^ | Kellan Howell

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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

[caww]

There was a time when justice was served for treasonous behavior. (sigh)

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....”The Greatest Generation knew what to do with traitors, spies and 5th columnists”.....

..and because the current generations don’t know history they believe there’s always some “other” reason why people act as they do... and further... our job to council them through their distorted thinking til they’re “better”.

[Jack Black]

We got our hands on Jihad Johnny though, right? We might not get our hands on a lot of these guys.

Revoking citizenship is a excellent alternative, which at least voids their passport and makes it impossible for them to waltz back into the USA and set up a jihad-shop here.

Treason trials would be better, but USA doesn't do "trials in abstentia" which means we'd have to catch them first.

I doubt we will catch many of them in Iraq.