What do we do about Mo? ‘E’s a luvvely boy, was a medical student at Exeter, specialising in children’s heart surgery, spent his spare time working voluntarily in a food bank and helping little old ladies cross the street, then he went to Syria. Joined ISIS, murdered 396 Christian women after raping them first, slaughtered their kids, beheaded the menfolk and sent the videos home for his mum to enjoy.

And now he wants to come home. And even worse than all of the above mentioned is the other thing he’s bringing back to Esher. The ideology. The sickest and most destructive philosophy since Hitler interpreted Nietzsche. The poison for mind and body and entire societies. Radical extreme Islamist jihadism. His coming home gift.

So again; what do we do about Mo?

We could watch him, ask him a few questions, like ‘will you murder anyone in the next few days? Have you decided to be a nice person now?’, shit like that. And he’ll be fine. Just go back as normal. But which normal? The pre- or post-Syria ‘normal’?

Furthermore, there’s sadly, not just Mo. There’s quite literally thousands of them. All in possession of two vital things; a UK passport and a mind so sick and distorted that death and destruction are simply part of it. A hatred for ‘the West’ and its values. And its people. And its coffee shops and football stadia and concert halls and pubs and bars and restaurants. Not to mention police, government and monarchy.

The perfect solution would be: don’t let them come back. But alas international law precludes such action. And do we really want to spend a small fortune imprisoning these people, following due court process (a second small fortune), only to risk them spreading their messages of hate and death to other inmates?

We should send them to Assad as it was against him that their previous crimes were committed. But that won’t happen.

So Gavin Williamson, the Defence Secretary, no less, came up with a brilliant plan. Ok, not a ‘nice’ plan, but a solution to the insoluble problem. Gun the fuckers down in Syria and Iraq, wherever you can find them, even if they’re just sitting there playing backgammon or praying at the time. Find them, shoot them, bomb them, whatever it takes to stop them coming home.

Ok, its illegal under any form of law, rules of engagement or war, even though there is no war.

And people find that terrible. Without actually thinking of any decent alternative. Or even an alternative indecent alternative.

Its a problem.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx