Syria is entirely within their rights to deport all these foreign-born terrorists back to their home countries and not waste further resources imprisoning them or dealing with the legal wrangling to execute them. Lord knows they have enough problems without having to deal with all these western jihadis and their broodmares.
Ignore how unsympathetic the actual terrorists are for a moment and consider this: do countries like the United Kingdom not bear some responsibility for allowing Muslim communities within their country to fester to the point that a number of British-born Muslims think going to wage a jihad in another country is a good idea? Should they not be made to acknowledge that letting Muslims not integrate and tolerating their backwards ideology and barbaric practices out of a naive commitment to "cultural relativism" was an irresponsible and cowardly decision?
To me, the proper way cases like this should be handled is for the terrorists to be deported back to their home country, tried for treason, and summarily executed. I can't help but feel that the United Kingdom is taking the easy way out once again, mostly likely out of a fear of the inevitable riots that would happen in their country if they actually dared to put this woman on trial. Provided a literal treasonous jihadist could even get convicted of treason in the modern UK's courts.
I support the fact that the regime in Syria would be well within its rights to simply deport all foreign born combatants. At the same time they are in the unique position, that as terrorists are not considered combatants and outside of the Geneva convention, then it's not exactly illegal for them to go missing and never be seen again or openly persecuted and put through a trial process (show trial lets face it,) in order to show the legitimacy of the regime as well and to act as a deterrent for future fighters and Islamist. Which either options the Syrian regime is in it's right to do.
As for the UK government accepting the blame of not being able to integrate Muslims into the local population, this has been one of the long standing problems of multiculturalism, and the thought that it can be forced upon a population to integrate just doesn't work. Just as you have a large British Jewish population in England that is integrated into greater British culture, you also have Sephardic Jews who do not integrate and haven't been induced to do so, despite several instances of being forcibly ejected from the UK.
They are a parallel culture, and this is the major issue I think that exists within UK politics is that they have not been particular in who they let in, in terms of Muslims. What I mean by this is that there are specific groups of Muslims who are more peaceful and less prone to violence around the world, but these groups are often considered minorities within Islam itself. Sufi, Druza, Alawites, are all forms of Islam that aren't as stringent as Shia or Sunni sects.
These however are overshadowed by Sunni's and Shia immigration and in much greater numbers, so there is less chance for a more moderate form of Islam to have a reforming influence on the Muslims already in Britain. The governments main mistake in this is not monitoring who they allow to build or preach within mosques as it's been shown that most of the mosque growth in the UK is Saudi funded and Wahabist. Wahabism is the fundamentalist form of Islam that ISIS practices ruthlessly.
The UK government has also failed to seek it's own opinions on Islamic experts outside of the faith itself. What I mean by this is, is that when you look at all of the major advisory roles they are all occupied by moderate Muslims, but time and time again you will have these experts not actually point out the causes of the problems, that cause extremism, because fundamentally the religion does encourage extremism.
Imam Tawhidi in Australia is the only moderate Muslim voice I've seen within Western Muslim Intelligensia, that argues for full reforming of the religion to remove those elements that produce extremism.
I honestly wish the UK government would for its own sake actually grow a backbone and not just say that multiculturalism has failed in the UK but actually point out where it has failed and why. The simple fact that Muslims are often at the forefront of the argument is because they comprise the largest group of peoples who have come to Britain, and are the only main culture that exhibits this sort of militarism.
The government has been a soft touch for a long time, and like the majority of western elites supported by their media class really have no idea of what the real world is like, or choose to ignore it because it would cost them their jobs and their seats in parliament or they've targeted it as a potential voting bloc.
I agree it's a dodge by the UK government but look at it from this perspective. UK has no death penalty, so even if the actions of the jihadi's are considered treason and a conviction wasn't overturned by some glory seeking human rights lawyer, they wouldn't be up for anything more than life imprisonment. The UK prison systems already have huge issues with Islamic radicalization in the prison systems so your not actually effectively removing the problem by imprisoning the jihadis either.
As for a giant set of riots in the street if a conviction or execution was granted, I think that the UK is in such a state that if there was an open cases of excessive violence from Muslims to non-muslims then the government wouldn't have plausible deniability any longer and that there would be a mobilization among the natives to force through change.
At the same time, the children that would return with them will be left in the care of the same families that raised their children's and in some way contributed to their development in becoming fundamentalist, rightly or wrongly. I understand this might be the case with everyone, but I have no emotional skin in the game, so it would ultimately come down to a facts vs feelings issue for me, the children should not remain in the families/communities that enabled the radicalization of the parents.
