These “Finns” do not actually consider themselves to be Finnish. They consider themselves citizens of the worldwide Islamic umma. They joined an entity that is avowedly at war with Finland and the rest of the non-Muslim world. They should never be allowed back. Would Britain have allowed a group of British Nazis who had gone to Germany to fight against Britain to return to Britain in 1943?
“Turkey deports 12 Islamic State-linked fighters to Finland,” by Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor, June 1, 2020:
Turkey has repatriated 12 Finnish Islamic State detainees, the Interior Ministry has revealed, part of an ongoing process of transferring jihadi captives back to their countries of origin.
“Extradition of foreign terrorist fighters continues. In this context, 12 Finnish nationals were flown back to their countries,” the ministry said in a May 31 tweet.
The ministry did not specify whether the Finns were men, women or children.
Turkey began repatriating foreign jihadis in November of last year, mostly to Europe. Those repatriated include fighters from Germany, France, Ireland and Denmark. Ankara also deported a US IS fighter that month.
Finnish IS fighters rarely if ever made headlines when the terror group butchered its way across Iraq and Syria. Yet Finland, with a population of 5.5 million, produced one of the highest jihadist rates per capita, according to Anne Speckhard, director of the International Center for Countering Violent Extremism at Georgetown University.
There are 11 Finnish women and 30 Finnish children currently at the Al-Hol and Roj camps in northeast Syria, which are home to around 70,000 IS fighter dependents, most of them Syrians and Iraqis. Around 10,000 of them are from 60 other countries, including Turkey….