The Kurdish authorities in Syria want all foreign Daesh* terrorists, their wives and their children to be retrieved by their respective home countries. Describing the hundreds of children of terrorists, a senior Kurdish official said that they are “drilled in terrorist mentality”, stressing the West's moral responsibility to take care of them.
Due to fears of new terrorist organisations replacing Daesh in both Syria and Iraq, all foreigner fighters and their families who joined the terrorist group and supported its self-proclaimed “caliphate” must be brought back to their respective home countries, the Kurdish authorities said.
“These children are raised and drilled with a terrorist mentality”, Abdel Karim Omar, a senior official with the Kurdish administration in Syria told Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, urging Norway to pull its share of the weight.
According to Omar, foreign jihadists who have joined Daesh should be prosecuted, whereas noncombatants should be rehabilitated and integrated back into their countries of origin. This, he said, applies to men, women and children. If they are interned for too long in prisons and detention camps in areas previously controlled by Daesh, new extremist movements may spring up.
Omar stressed the West's moral responsibility to deal with exported jihadists.
“You have to take legal and moral responsibility for your own citizens. If they are criminals, they must be brought to justice. If it is about women…