Posted on 12/31/2015 3:38:29 PM PST by mandaladon
Paris (AFP) - President Francois Hollande's call for convicted French-born terrorists to lose their citizenship if they have a second nationality has triggered uproar among those who see him adopting right-wing ideas that recall dark moments in France's history.
Ever since the French Revolution in the late 1700s, "le droit du sol" ("the right of the soil") has been a fundamental principle, giving everyone born in the country the right to citizenship.
But in the aftermath of November's jihadist attacks in Paris, Hollande announced to an extraordinary session of both houses of parliament that he would seek changes to the constitution so that dual nationals -- even those born in France -- could be stripped of their French passport.
The idea has huge support from a jittery nation, with nearly 90 percent backing the measure in a poll for BFM TV.
Hollande's Socialist government has staunchly defended the move with Prime Minister Manuel Valls saying the measure was already used in several Western countries including Britain, Canada and the Netherlands.
"Removing French nationality from those who blindly kill other French in the name of an ideology of terror is a strong symbolic act against those who have excluded themselves from the national community," Valls wrote on Facebook.
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“Under fire” from whom the scumbag Muslims?
They should also be discussing the return of Madame Guillotine for these folks.
Ya what’s up with crticsm?
Who is criticizing?
Sounds like common sense.
Can you lose your citizenship there, or in the US, if convicted of treason? Isn’t it treasonous to engage in terrorism??
French people who oppose this are morons.
Well the problem with that is the same we face here in America, there are people who despite being born in the country feel no loyalty whatsoever, they are taught by their parents to give allegiance and loyalty to race and familial country of origin only! With one difference muslins give religion allegiance over everything.
What a great idea! There is no reason anyone who immigrated here to carry out terror attacks shouldn’t have their citizenship revoked.
They should throw their immediate family out as well.
Hollands is under fire from French newspapers.
Absolutely. Hollande is to be commended and those 10% of the population who support this - ship them out too.
what is the point in striping citizenship from someone who has been executed which is what should be done to traitors to their country.
The citizenship should be stripped form their FAMILIES!
Seems like the smart thing to do, something only terrorists would oppose.
He’s not perfect but he has more testicular material than our sad sack.
Normally the liberal moron Hollande would agree with the Newspapers and oppose his present idea.
But Hollande got his own ox gored when the Paris attacks happened because he was present at the soccer game that got attacked, and I'm sure he realized the Muslim danger threatens him and his ilk and not just the peasants. - tom
Paging Charles Martel. Charles Martel, please pick up the white courtesy phone...
Sacre bleu.
The French still wont address the problem correctly. If you strip the citizenship of a convicted terrorist, what comes next? Deportation? To Where? What nation wants a convicted terrorist other than a terrorist loving country? Isn’t that really just letting the terrorist go?
Convicted terrorists should be executed. That ends their terrorism for good. Shipping them off to wherever gives them the opportunity to terrorize again. That might seem humane to the anti-death penalty crowd but to the rest of the world it is cruel.
Rabid dogs are executed immediately for public safety. Terrorists are as near rabid as a human can get without foaming at the mouth.
We don’t know from the article just how many there are or whether they are truly French. May be just their equivalent of CAIR making noise.
says people with dual citizenship so there is a place to send them providing the birth nation will take them back. Pakistan for one has refused re entry from countries looking to send people back.If nobody wants them reopen Devils Island someplace. The French Gitmo.
Hollander either gets tough on Muslims, or Le Pen becomes president of France in 2017.
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