Any Sympathy For These Guys?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754241/Held-IS-five-jihadi-Brits-want-home-Wantaway-fighters-stripped-weapons-marched-punishment-centre.html

[tonyav]

No, none what so ever.

[jourdain2]

Same answer as before. They went out to kill people, all hyped up. I'm sorry that they have been disillusioned but don't see why we should have them back. (Maybe if they post enough regrets to other potential expatriot jihadis to dissuade them they may earn enough Brownie points to eventually earn a return card,under conditions, we could accept them in a few years.

[Baldric]

None whatsoever!

[Obiter]

I look forward to seeing them beheaded, one by one, by their captors. If ever there was poetic justice, this is it.

[bazwillrun]

nope, feed them to pigs for all i care

[lcg]

no....they should stay and suffer in misery.....liked they wished to inflict upon all of us. that is surely a fitting punishment. their british citizenship should be revoked and they should remain stateless for the rest of their lives. either that, or hang them upon return.

[ChillDoubt]

Not even vaguely. No loss to society.

[Obiter]

Actually, I do have a tiny scrap of sympathy. Young, idealistic, believing that they are doing right and find out that they have been doing wrong, now have to face the consequences.

[askyourgran]

No sympathy at all, I hope they find out the hard way, that their 'brothers' would just as easily turn on them too.

[naomi24]

No.

[agchristie]

Hoist with their own petard.

[douglas9401]

Karma.

[baza]

no sympathy at all, I just hope that their friends have a blunt knife to behead them.

[boxtops]

I'm sad to say that it doesn't surprise me at all. We were only discussing this morning about these men who are disillusioned with what they've found out there - we felt it's highly unlikely that IS will let them leave. IS will view them as traitors to the cause.

[Obiter]

A ringing condemnation of ideology. There is a lesson here for both religious and political ideologues.

[DaisyNonna]

Absolutely none.
They thought they knew what they wanted.
Their choice.

[andy-hughes]

I do feel sympathy.

Young people are idealistic, and Muslim young men more so than western young men.

They believed they were fighting a holy war, and wheras I would not for a moment condone that behaviour, my sympathy is for any any young people who make stupid mistakes they would not make in later life.

Young men signed up for the First World War in droves - the thinking is the same - saving your people, however different the circumstances may be.

So I am sad about the entire conflict - this is just one more needless consequence of it.

[naomi24]

But Andy, these chaps weren't fighting to save their people. They're British, and they're traitors.

[Obiter]

Do not underestimate the influence of 'leaders'. In the town where I was born the local MP (before my time) became the first ever woman cabinet minister (Labour). When she declared in favour of artificial contraception the catholic clergy fulminated against her in the pulpit, saying that to vote for her again would be a mortal sin. At the next election she duly lost her seat to a Tory.

[DaisyNonna]

Idealistic? Rude Words!