Paying their Debt !

There are about twenty young women in a squalid Syrian displacement camp who claim to be entitled to Australian citizenship and are pleading to be returned to Australia.  Between them they have about forty small children whose fathers are either in prison for the crimes they committed, still on the run somewhere in the wasteland they created, or dead because of battle wounds.

Most of these women claim that trickery was used to entice them into Syria and they committed no crime.   They were there simply for the material comfort of their freedom fighters and to churn out a production line of a child a year to eventually swell Islamic State ranks. Now that war is lost they want to return to Australia and resume their old life with the freedom their vile regime refused to the prisoners that came under their control.

You can be assured that the moment these women set foot on Australian soil they would be making a welfare claim at Centrelink and joining the queue for public housing. They are reclaiming their citizenship as a right, but the right of others was something they willingly denied when they joined Islamic State and shared the spoils of victory with their husbands.

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in Syria are either dead or refugees somewhere in the world trying to gain entry into a new country.  Islamic State made no secret of the punishment it inflicted when it forced its extreme version of Islam on the people it captured.   Prisoners captured from defending armies were publicly executed with a shot to the head - or decapitation.   Women that came under their control were either used as sex slaves, or were sold for profit in the slave markets that still exist in the Middle East.

These women were part of the same Islamic State that declared war on Australia,.  It publicly appealed for followers to use their cars, a knife or any weapon that came to hand to murder " unbelievers " on the streets of our cities - and some responded.   We still have Islamic State adherents here plotting to bring down airliners with bombs or commit murder in the name of their intolerance of other religions.

These women committed a crime when they left Australia to engage in a foreign war.  They wilfully abandoned their links to Australia and now they owe a debt to the other unfortunates from Syria stranded in those same displacement camps.  They are now stateless people like the people their war forced out of their homes and it would be grossly unfair if they became cheque jumpers, allowed entry when those around them are still refused.

Australian citizenship comes with responsibilities.  These women chose to burn those bridges and now they must survive as stateless refugees.  Hopefully, they may eventually become loyal citizens of another country.  The door to Australia should remain closed !