...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group in the Middle East over security fears, but added it would still consider repatriating young children.
The issue sharply divided the world's biggest Moslem majority nation with its president saying this week that he was not in favour of bringing back suspected bully boyz and their families who went to Syria and other countries to fight for the group's now crumbled caliphate.
Security affairs minister Mahfud MD said that some 689 Indonesians -- including women and kiddies -- in Syria would not be allowed to return home due to security concerns in a country that suffered repeated attacks by IS-loyal groups.
"We've decided that the government has to provide security assurance to 267 million Indonesian citizens," the minister said Tuesday, after a meeting with President Joko Widodo near Jakarta.
"If these foreign terrorist fighters return home they could become a dangerous new virus," he added.
The government would consider repatriating children 10 years old or younger on a "case by case basis", he added, without elaborating.
Critics of the plan said it was better to bring imported muscle home and rehabilitate them instead of risking that they could be further radicalised abroad.
| Except that it’s already been established that most of the time de-radicalization and rehabilitation do not occur. |
Indonesia has long struggled with Islamist militancy and the country hosts dozens of murderous Moslem groups loyal to IS and its violent ideology.
In 2018, family jacket wallahs from an IS-linked group detonated explosives in several churches in the country's second-largest city Surabaya, killing more than a dozen people.
Last year, two bully boyz also linked to IS unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Indonesia's chief security minister, while in November a suicide bomber went
kaboom!at a busy cop shoppe, killing himself and injuring at least a dozen people.