Salam alaykum
Salam alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh sisters and brothers,
I am very grateful to find a website like this that finally dares to bring up the sensitive subject of citizenship deprivation. I have not been stripped of my citizenship nor am I in danger of getting it taken away. Nonetheless, I can see that many of our Muslim brothers and sisters are in exactly this situation and it must be very scary and lonely.
I am from Denmark and I sympathize with those who have travelled abroad thinking they were doing something good on the path of Islam. I also sympathize with those who on their way might have ended up in a situation they knew wasn’t right but now want to pay for their faults. That is why stripping anyone of their citizenship is inhumane regardless of what they have done. Give them a due process and a fair trial. What if it was your teenage daughters who got a bit too excited and made the wrong choice, or what if it was your sons who got restless and took a wrong direction in life?
Everyone deserves a second change. In Denmark we have quite a few cases with young Muslim people who went to Syria and now want to return and endure their punishment. From the Media I can mention Jacob El Ali, Ömer Kücükavci and Solle Kücükavci. And also Sara as well as the twin sisters Zahra and Salma Halane. I feel with all these young people. Let them come home.
– Adam