Australia strips Islamic State jihadi of his Australian citizenship
All free nations should do this as a matter of course, but the suicidal British and others have instead welcomed them back.
They joined an entity that has repeatedly declared that it is at war with their home countries. That should have been taken as a renunciation of citizenship.
“Australian IS militant stripped of citizenship,” by Francesca Merlo, Vatican News, December 29, 2018:
An Australian-born militant of the so-called Islamic State is stripped of his citizenship whilst he awaits extradition from Turkey where he faces a prison sentence.Australia says it has stripped a suspected so-called Islamic State militant of citizenship. 27-year-old Neil Prakash becomes the 12th person to be stripped of Australian citizenship as a consequence of their militant links.Having converted from Buddhism to Islam in 2012, Prakash featured in Islamic State videos and has previously admitted to being a member of the so-called Islamic State, though he claims to have “nothing to do” with the group in Australia.The government, however, says the 27-year-old is a threat to Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, told news agencies that the “Islamic State is opposed to Australia, their interests, values, democratic beliefs, rights and liberties.” He stated: “This government is determined to deal with foreign terrorist fighters as far from our shores as possible”….The Melbourne-born rapper has been linked to several attack plans in Australia and has urged independent attacks against the United States.
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