Left-wing politicians, media commentators, and senior Tories are upset that Home Secretary Sajid Javid is not trying to save alleged Islamic State killers from possible death sentences in the U.S.
The bizarre reasoning was summed up by Labour MP Hilary Benn:
It is precisely because of the barbaric nature of the crimes which they committed that we, as a country, have to show we are better than them and what they did
Yet precisely due to the indescribable barbarity of the abuses committed by Islamic State jihadis, an Iraqi judge said that he was sentencing jihadis from the UK to death by hanging — in order to protect Britain. Abdul Sattar Beraqdar, spokesman for the Supreme Judicial Council, said British members of ISIS deserved to die, and that “the punishment, as much as it seems strong, will affect the security of your country….I am sure there are hundreds of people in Britain at this moment thinking of committing similar crimes.”
A senior cabinet minister and secretary of state for defence, Gavin Williamson, also recognized the grave threat to citizens that members of the Islamic State pose. He stated months ago that those who have “fought for Islamic State abroad should be hunted down and killed to ensure they never return to the UK….I do not believe that any terrorist, whether they come from this country or any other, should ever be allowed back into this country…We should do everything we can do to destroy and eliminate that threat.”
“Leftists, Senior Tories Fight to Save ISIS Killers from Execution, Despite Public Support for Death Penalty,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, July 23, 2018:
Left-wing politicians, media commentators, and senior Tories are upset that Home Secretary Sajid Javid is not trying to save alleged Islamic State killers from possible death sentences in the U.S.
The Home Secretary wrote to U.S. Attorney-General Jeff Sessions to say he would not be seeking assurances that two of the so-called ‘Islamic State Beatles’ — Alexanda Kotey, an Islamic convert from London, and Shafee El-Sheikh, who came to Britain as a refugee — would not face the death penalty if tried in the U.S., according to a leaked letter published by The Telegraph
Javid told Sessions he was “of the view that there are strong reasons for not requiring a death penalty assurance in this specific case, so no such assurances will be sought” — while noting that this would not change the British government’s general policy on the issue.
He described intelligence implicating Kotey and El-Sheikh, who are thought to be Islamic State executioners, in the “kidnap and murder of a number of individuals, including three American and two British citizens”.
But left-liberals and senior Tories are said to be upset that Javid will not try to bring the jihadists to Britain or refuse to share intelligence with the U.S. without assurances they will not face the death penalty — despite the fact they have reportedly been stripped of their British citizenship and should, therefore, be of no particular concern to the British government……