Al Jazeera link Why? Well, apparently jihad is, like, really hard. And apparently cold. And not as exciting as they thought it would be. And there isn’t anywhere to repair iPods.
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Fighters complain of difficult conditions, especially as the winter cold sets in. Their concerns range from the practical, including a couple worried that their child, born in Syria, would not enjoy French citizenship, to the trivial. “I’m sick and tired. My iPod doesn’t work anymore,” one writes. “I have to return.”
The French government is trying to figure out what to do with them. It’s a conundrum, I admit. They’re enemies of France, to be sure, but showing leniency does have its benefits.
Jihad is hard. Really hard. You might think serving in the French Foreign Legion is tough, but that’s just peanuts to jihad. You won’t believe just how mind-bogglingly hard jihad is.
My inner Republican wants to say, 'Throw their asses into the pokey and toss away the key". But I do see the benefit of having disaffected jihadists introduced back into the Western Islamic communities. Make a condition of their return that they commit to a sizeable number of community service hours, telling their stories to disaffected young potential jihadists. And anyone else.
That’s why I’m torn. All these people deserve is a bullet to the head. But there is a benefit to having people saying, “don’t listen to these guys. I was there, it was miserable” blah blah blah.
That’s the thing - this is by far the best way to get rid of jihadis. Sending them home in body bags creates martyrs for the next round of disaffected idiots to fixate on. This could actually smack some sense into the disaffected idiots before they become a real problem.
I find the couple with the kid even funnier than the ipod guy. ‘DEATH TO THE EVIL WEST AND ALL OF ITS CORRUPT INFLUENCES AND- Wait, what?? You mean our baby won’t be a citizen of a Western country?! That’s unthinkable!!’
What if France allows them back and once their nice and comfy they decide to be terrorists at home? Plot a bombing on the weekend and then it’s back to the office bright and early Monday morning, no one else the wiser.
They’ve shown themselves to be contemptible scum. If France decides to welcome them back they should also provide them with a lifetime of free government housing and meals in a very, very safe and secured environment, for their own protection of course.
Yup. You can find more information about this in the trilogy “Where Allah Went Wrong”, “Some More of Allah’s Greatest Mistakes”, and “Who is this Allah Person Anyway?”
Debrief them and find out who their friends are first. Then bring them home in body bags and bury them at the dump. Continue to use their iPhones to send their friends texts about how great it is and they should join up, send them tickets and have their contact be the French version of the CIA and meet them in dumbfuckistan and viola! (so to speak), rinse and repeat as necessary.
Turn the phone on, let them send one social media update letting friends and family know they are home and safe, take the phone back while it buzzes and rings with all the responses they can’t read. “Tell me all about your ISIS friends and I’ll let you check twitter.”
