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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Being banished from this country with 0bama as CIC doesn’t seem like much of a penalty nowadays.
eh, this goes without saying, if your fighting with terrorist to terrorize people you are a terrorist and SHOULD NOT be trusted to Rome free in theses united States.
To do otherwise would be utterly insane. ISIS fighters are vicious mass-murdering madmen. To allow them among our population is only to invite a terrorist attack upon us.
Only let them back in the country if they post a YouTube of themselves flushing a Koran down the toilet while reciting the Nicene Creed.
They are just some of Obama’s Dreamers.
Well about the only way I can figure out how he's going to do that is to recognize ISIS as a sovereign country. Then those who fight against the U.S. forfeit their citizenship.
Task the NSA with identifying every last one of them, and the CIA with killing them. Rules of war, not rules of civilian law.
Dang right! And people are still pushing for Romney?
I mean... COME ONE, PEOPLE!!!!!
I hope the muzzies are monitoring this site.
Millions of us “infidels” in America are armed, have our CCW’s, don’t like Islam and don’t trust Muslims.
This isn’t Egypt & this isn’t Pakistan. The “infidels” can shoot back, here. In my neck of the woods, the local muzzies keep vewy vewy quiet. They wear their robes & hijabs on Fridays & they glare daggers at us “infidels”, but that’s about all that they do.
Rules of war should apply here, since they have become in effect enemy combatants.
What good is banishing them when they can always return through our wide open borders.
declare war on isis then try them as traitors...
The Greatest Generation knew what to do with traitors, spies and 5th columnists.
Obviously not, because Cruz apparently specified “American citizens.”
Easy pickins when the mob gets pissed off enough.
That about says it!
Such horrors certainly wouldn't be the first in mankind's relatively short history here. They may be much closer than anyone thinks.
God preserve us.
Agreed. Go live in Krapistan and get out of here!
We let them back in and we will end up like this city in the UK
1400 young girls abused in one town in UK and no one jailed. The article called them Asians but really muslims of course. Comments are good too.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/08/31/Lessons-learned-from-Rotherham-Simon-DanczukMP
There was a time when justice was served for treasonous behavior. (sigh)
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