There’s a bit in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where a man explains that he is no longer the leader of Popular People’s Christian Front, they were disbanded and replaced by the Popular Christian People’s Front, not to be confused with the Popular Front for Christain Peoples, who are a right bunch’a tossers…

And where religion and politics meet, its always a shambles. Which is precisely why sensible nations endevour to keep the two seperate, and other nations descend into ruination and/or totalitarianism.

And that is the problem faced by our poor British jihadis currently engaged in war in Syria and Iraq. They went to Syria to depose Assad. Violently and with much fighting and bloodshed. An innocent aim. Free those poor Syrians from an unquestionably evil man and fill the void with a previously unimaginably evil regime. Noble but naive, some might say. Oh, and illegal. Leaving Britain to fight wars elsewhere (unless you’re in the armed forces) is illegal. Punishable by removal of your testicles and the loss of one hand and one foot. Or it would be in the world they’re trying to create. Over here they just go to jail. Mamby-pamby democratic wankers that we are.

So they’re in Syria and fighting jihad against Assad, along with many other jihadis from a host of other nations, and get swept up in the ISIS ‘thing’ and start the beheadings and the genocide of entire villages. Line ’em up and shoot ’em dead; all you can find who aren’t devotees to the cause. Christians, Shias, Kurds, one head’s the same as another. All for a good cause.

And yet, within the ISIS (or IS, or ISIL, or popular front for head removals, or whatever they’re called this week) there is disagreement, there is infighting, there is aggro. Quel surprise, non? Different ideologies, different philosophies, different ways of cutting off a head. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Boco Haram, Hamas, same aims, different approaches.

So our boys, our good British jihadis, want to come home. “I didn’t go out there to fight among different gangs” they moan, “I went to fight and kill other people”. Shame. But they know if they come home they’ll be arrested.

And thus they present themselves almost as victims. Which immediately sucks in the loony liberal human-rightists who start to feel sorry for them, almost agree with their victim status and start saying things about how ‘you can’t make one rule for returning jihadis; there needs to be flexibility’. Which there should be, in the rope that hangs them, but not in anything else.

What can you do with these people? Volunteers in the most vile, bloodthirsty kill-fest the world has known since the Crusades, men who revere murder, participate in genocide, are sworn to inflict their evil on the entire world and are only returning because they (genuinely) feel that their status of ‘martyrs’, should they die in jihadist infighting, will be compromised. So they get less virgins, etc, etc, etc.

Oh, cry the liberals, we can ‘de-radicalise them’. Yeah, right. Put them in prisons where they can spread more poison whilst they agree they were naughty and won’t do it again. Show them the errors of their ways? That’ll work after a lifetime’s indoctrination in what most would consider insanity.

We don’t need them back here. We don’t want them back here. Bit late for them to decide they may have made a wrong decision. You can unscrew a lightbulb but a pregnant woman is different. Some things are not so easily undone.

And they’re mainly Arsenal fans anyway.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx