Norway’s prime minister has lost her parliamentary majority because one of the parties in her coalition withdrew in protest over the repatriation of a suspected ISIS member from a Syrian camp. The Prime Minister, Erna Solberg of the Conservative Party, says she will try to govern with a minority coalition.I agree with those Europeans who don’t want trouble-makers allowed back into the countries they fled. Neither terrorist thugs nor their doxies deserve a mulligan.
Norway, like other European nations, is under pressure from the Trump administration to repatriate ISIS fighters. President Trump has warned that captured fighters will be released unless European governments are willing to take them back.
Yet, European nations continue to resist. Only a few ISIS fighters have been repatriated. Repatriation of a given ISIS member doesn’t mean that the member goes free automatically. The home country can, and presumably will, try to convict the fighter and send him or her to prison.
The problem is that it may be difficult to convict ISIS fighters under the exacting standards that apply in criminal cases. Moreover, judges in countries like Norway may be sympathetic to the defendants.
Those who fled chose (“poorly” one wants to add) to go to Syria. Let ‘em rot there subject to the tender mercies of Assad’s enforcers and Hezbollah goons.
