# Should Western Jihadists Be Microchipped?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-western-jihadists-be-microchipped/740770>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 18, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-western-jihadists-be-microchipped/740770 "2015-12-18T13:45:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-western-jihadists-be-microchipped/740770/21 "2015-12-21T00:21:07Z")

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> [@botsgotme](#):
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> we cannot be sure of their intentions, and it is better that they be tracked, and their movements monitored.

But there’s never a policeman around at the precise moment their intentions become realised, so to provide adequate reassurance for the public at large would it not be better that western jihadists on entering the US be compelled to wear a chartreuse _keffiyeh_ or a similar hi-vis colour with a bulls-eye embroidered on the back?

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**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-western-jihadists-be-microchipped/740770/22 "2015-12-21T00:40:10Z")

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> [@botsgotme](#):
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> The phenomenon of western muslims who travel to Syria (to participate in “Jihad”) is quite disturbing. Their subsequent behavior (upon returning) is concerning; should they be forced to have a microchip implanted in them, so they can be monitored and tracked by the police? I would think that this is a reasonable solution-we cannot be sure of their intentions, and it is better that they be tracked, and their movements monitored. What do you think?

They shouldn’t be microchipped. They should permanently lose their citizenship and be left to die in whatever desert shit hole they ran off to. They made their choice, and we neither trust them or need them. Fuck 'em.

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