psyah
December 22, 2014, 3:39am
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Re: ISIS has executed 100 foreigners trying to quit: report
and how will you screen the returnees for actual reason for return? how do you verify they themselves werent killers? remember - even professional soldiers with all their training and access to mental healthcare end up with PTST and war trauma, and have a hard time fitting back into civil society. who will be responsible if ISIS returnees after their reform camp go back to being crazy psychos who dont respect their own life? will you want to live next to an ex-ISIS jihadi? will you be ok with your kid’s schoolbus driver being one? rehab sounds nice, practically speaking - not possible without spending a vast amount on a support network. just import some poor rwandans or hmong refugees instead, they will contribute to society.
Your concerns are real and there is a price to pay … The non-Muslims need to operate in accordance with their own rules and methods and likewise there is an ethical ground here. And to welcome repentant people is the higher ideal even if there is a paranoid risk of them doing something.
And there have been “success” stories … I say that in quotes because to be honest this particular individual has created a weird organisation that promotes odd modernistic understandings, but as far as British society is concerned he is no threat to the public anymore.
Together Amnesty International, the prison experience coupled with proper Islamic education was a successful rehab for Maajid Nawaz - founder of The Quilliam Foundation.
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While a student at Newham and then at SOAS, Maajid very quickly became a national speaker and international recruiter for Hizb ut-Tahrir , traveling first to Pakistan and then to Denmark to export the party’s ideology and set up cells from London. As part of his university degree, Nawaz spent a compulsory year abroad in Egypt. He was arrested and interrogated in Alexandria for belonging to Hizb ut-Tahrir, which was banned in Egypt. He was then transferred to al-Gihaz, the Cairo headquarters of Aman al-Dawlah (the Egyptian state security service). Though, like most foreign prisoners, he was not himself tortured, he was interrogated with the threat of torture and witnessed other prisoners being tortured. He was then transferred with fellow foreign prisoners, including Ian Nisbet and Reza Pankhurst , to Mazrah Tora. There he was put on trial. During his trial, Maajid Nawaz was adopted by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience . Nisbet, Pankhurst and Nawaz were each sentenced to five years imprisonment.
While imprisoned in Mazrah Tora Nawaz spoke at length with the Muslim Brotherhood leadership such as Mohammed Badie , who in his youth personally smuggled Qutb’s Milestones out from prison, and their spokesman Dr. Essam el-Erian. He also befriended Dr. Sa’ad al-Din Ibrahim and the imprisoned runner-up to Egypt’s 2006 presidential elections, liberal head of the Tomorrow Party Ayman Nour . Throughout this time, Nawaz continued his studies, sitting with graduates of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University and Dar al-'Ulum . He specialized in the Arabic language whilst studying historical Muslim scholastics, sources of Islamic jurisprudence, Hadith historiography and the art of Qur’an recitation. He also committed half of the Qur’an to memory.