15 May 2025, 08:47 | Updated: 15 May 2025, 08:50

By Alan Mendoza

Allowing British ISIS joiners to return to the UK with no consequences sends a chilling message to extremists.

In the latest example of the UK’s laxity of approach to those who can enter our country with impunity, Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a report entitled Accountability for Daesh Crimes, which chronicles that more than 400 British citizens who deserted this country to join ISIS in Iraq or Syria have apparently returned to our shores. If this was bad enough, it found that not one of them has been successfully prosecuted for the crimes they may have committed while in service of a terrorist movement that pledged to destroy our country.

There are really only two positions that can be taken on this matter with any logic.

The first is to prevent ISIS joiners from returning to the UK, using methodology like that employed with Shamima Begum,........

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