lundi 25 février 2019

Retirer la citoyenneté à des Américains qui ont combattu pour l'État islamique?


De Lee Harvey Oswald (qui souhaitait se défaire de sa citoyenneté américaine) à Hoda Muthana, comment devrait-on gérer ces individus qui se tournent contre leur pays? Dans le cas complexe et récent de Muthana qui souhaite revenir au pays, l'administration Trump prétend qu'elle n'est pas citoyenne alors que les avocats de la jeune femme affirme qu'elle détient toujours un passeport attestant du contraire. Au-delà du débat juridique, l'auteur de cet article croit qu'accueillir ces gens est un devoir moral. Qu'en pensez-vous?

 "I share Thomas Hegghammer’s suspicion that the harsh attitude of U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid toward Shamima Begum (who gave birth on Sunday, and wants to bring her baby home too) owes much to a desire to deter future terrorist travelers. Begum is now among the most detested Britons. Unlike Muthana, she has expressed no regret at having left London for Syria. If she is allowed back, some may reasonably conclude that joining a murderous cult is a decision with little legal downside, especially if during your terrorist holiday you refrain from Instagramming evidence of your complicity in murder. (How will prosecutors prove that these women are guilty of anything? Until very recently, we didn’t even know they were alive.) Being turned into an example, for purposes of deterrence, is partly bad luck for Begum. Of course, criminals have bad luck all the time, and that alone is not a reason to treat her mildly.

 But of all arguments against denaturalization, I find the moral ones most compelling: Begum and Muthana are ours. ISIS foreign fighters think of themselves as members of a Muslim ummah stretching back 1,400 years. But my reporting shows that with very few exceptions, they always bear marks of the culture in which they were raised. They thought the Islamic State would be a utopia, but usually their idea of utopia was conditioned by the ideals of their home nation. Japanese recruits projected onto the caliphate an idealized form of Japanese culture; Texans saw an Islamic Wild West; Brits thought that the Islamic State would fulfill a dream of social welfare that the U.K. had aspired to, but never quite managed to create."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/isis-fighters-begum-and-muthana-should-remain-citizens/583450/

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