“ISIS fighters get to come home and settle back down no problem. Yet my son and me are treated like terrorists. The UK has got its priorities all wrong.”
Yes. That has been true for a very long time now.
“Armed officers swoop on father, 49, for sending £150 to his son who fought with Kurdish forces against jihadis,” by Mark Nicol, Mail On Sunday, December 28, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The father of a British man who fought against Islamic State in Syria has been arrested by armed police for sending his son £150.
Paul Newey, 49, is accused of funding terrorism, even though his 27-year-old son Dan’s Kurdish-led military unit was backed by Britain and trained by the SAS. After the defeat of ISIS, the Kurdish units have now found themselves in conflict with Turkish forces.
‘ISIS fighters get to come home and settle back down no problem,’ Mr Newey said last night. ‘Yet my son and me are treated like terrorists. The UK has got its priorities all wrong.’
In an exclusive interview, Mr Newey, a mechanical engineer who is recovering from stomach cancer, revealed how:
Eleven anti-terrorism officers burst into his home after an early morning raid as he slept;
He spent 36 hours in a top-security police station in a cell that is normally used for terrorism suspects;
He believes his son ‘risked his life for a noble cause’ fighting with British troops but now fears being locked up if he comes home.Dan Newey, who had no previous military experience, gave up his job as an insurance salesman in 2017 to join the YPG, a Kurdish-led army based in Syria which, at the time, was leading the international military coalition against the threat of ISIS.
A year later, he returned to Britain and was put on a Home Office watchlist. But two months ago he went back to fight with the YPG for a second time….