British citizens who have headed to Syria to join the Daesh terrorist group should be killed before getting a chance to return home, says a UK government minister.
“These are people who have essentially moved away from any kind of allegiance towards the British government,” Rory Stewart, international development minister, told BBC on Sunday, noting that converts to the terror group believed in an “extremely hateful doctrine.”
“So I’m afraid we have to be serious about the fact these people are a serious danger to us, and unfortunately the only way of dealing with them will be, in almost every case, to kill them,” he said.
The minister’s remarks came after Brett McGurk, a top US envoy for the Western coalition purportedly fighting Daesh in Iraq and Syria, said his mission was to ensure every one of the group’s foreign fighters in Syria dies in Syria.
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