“Canada is disappointed that the United Kingdom has taken this unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities. Terrorism knows no borders, so countries need to work together to keep each other safe.”
Yes, and what better way to keep each other safe than to insist that they must admit returning Islamic State jihadis? Imagine Ralph Goodale in 1943 issuing a “sternly worded statement” saying that Britain was making all countries less safe by refusing to readmit British Nazis who had gone to Germany. This is just as absurd.
“Canada ‘disappointed’ over Jihadi Jack’s British citizenship being revoked,” Canadian Press, August 18, 2019 (thanks to the Geller Report):
The United Kingdom is shirking its share of the international community’s duty to help keep the world safe from terrorism, the federal government suggested Sunday after the British Home Office revoked the citizenship of a dual citizen imprisoned in Syria.
Jack Letts, a British-Canadian man who has been behind bars in a Kurdish prison since 2017, has been stripped of his British citizenship, the office of Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale confirmed in a sternly worded statement.
“Canada is disappointed that the United Kingdom has taken this unilateral action to off-load their responsibilities,” the statement said. “Terrorism knows no borders, so countries need to work together to keep each other safe.”
Letts, who was dubbed “Jihadi Jack” by the British media, has been detained for about two years after he travelled to Syria in 2014 to support the Islamic State group.
A statement from the Home Office said revoking British citizenships is one way it counters terrorist threats. It said it does not comment on individual cases.
“Decisions on depriving a dual national of citizenship are based on substantial advice from officials, lawyers and the intelligence agencies and all available information,” the statement said.
Letts’ parents, John Letts and Sally Lane, were found guilty in June for funding terrorism when they tried to send him money. The couple, from Oxford, England, received suspended sentences of 12 months in prison….