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by Douglas Murray, gatestoneinstitute.org, August 24, 2014
There has been a debate in the UK press suggesting we should hope that some of these ISIS killers come back to Britain, realize that jihad was all a phase and then head off to university for the start of the new term.
The beheading of James Foley was terrible, she stressed, “because we don’t know what [his] views were.”
Is there a time when even “combatants” — or anyone else — should be treated in this way? And who is to say who is a combatant and who not?
