What are they doing to ensure that they will not try to wage jihad at home? “Counter-terrorism police have prevented 116 suspicious passengers from travelling overseas since July,” Renee Viellaris, The Courier-Mail, September 12, 2015: AN INCREASING number of wannabe jihadists have been nabbed at Australian airports with terror tool kits that include DIY bomb-making […]
Australia to strip citizenship of Australian-born jihadis with immigrant parents
Common sense. This is a start in the right direction — one that no other Western country has had the courage to take. “Australia to strip citizenship of Australian-born jihadis with immigrant parents,” Associated Press, May 21, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth): Australian Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton, seen here in February 2015, says […]
Australia foils 230 Muslims trying to leave the country to join the jihad
Is this supposed to be a feel-good story? A “Wow, the counterterrorism squads are doing a great job” story? But what now? Australia authorities aren’t going to dare to do a single thing to disabuse these young Muslims of their jihadist sentiments. So now that they have been prevented from going to the Islamic State, […]
Australia: Teen jihadi wannabes caught at airport and sent home
Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said: “What we have here are two teenagers who have been intercepted on their way to a potentially very dangerous situation. As a result of this interception, a Sydney family remains together. This highlights afresh the need to work within communities and with parents to disrupt attempts to […]