Let us think about before IS became what they thought was a state
About Bali, about the throat slashing of innocent journalists
Then IS its slave markets, sex slaves, as a reward for murder
Yes we pride our selves in our humanity, our forgiveness, and IS thrives by using it against us
Bring them home? reform them?
Are we that mad
At times many of us have wished western country,s, well America, never inflicted torture on its prisoners
That payments to relatives of accidentally killed people could not buy the forgiveness of those relatives
But I at least,think defeating terrorists will increasingly force us to show as much sympathy for them as they show for us zero

Hi Belly,

Western policy for 50 years in the Middle East has been one based on control through destabilisation, regime change when it was felt necessary, exploitation and oppression, denial of basic human rights and open warfare to affect this policy whenever it was seen as justified, and that was often. The hostile infliction of the state of Israel on the Arabs was in no small measure a catalyst for much of the trouble. This great cock up was for the vital control of the huge oil resource in the region. Its all due to what we call our strategic interests. Things could have been a whole lot worse if not for the fact that the Soviet Union and later the Russian state did not have such a vital interest in the Middle East.

Not often do I agree with Trump, but on this he is being a little bit sensible. .

Dear Steele,

Thank You for your comments and my apologies for not
responding sooner. I've been doing a bit more research
on this issue. Apparently the penalty for treason
seems to be imprisonment. Therefore if Australia and other
countries stand by the rule of law, global justice, they
must then stand firm and take a principled stand to
prosecute those who have fought under the ISIS banner -
which includes their own citizens.

Therefore, countries are obligated to bring their ISIS
fighters home and then put them on trial as appropriate.
Thereby sending a message to others who may wish to
follow in their footsteps.

cont'd ...

The only way we can deny taking back our
citizens who fought under the ISIS banner -
is if we passed legislation in Parliament
that allowed for the loss of citizenship
due to treason against our country and its
citizens. Perhaps that's something that we
should consider?

Dear Steele,

My husband has just pointed out the fact that -
legislation already exists that people can lose
their citizenship if they engage in terrorist
activities or are "foreign fighter."
So now I'm totally confused. It appears that
ISIS fighter qualify for citizenship loss.

US has a similar narrative going with the ISIS brides

http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/us-rejects-is-bride-and-former-twitter-propagandist-who-claimed-she-was-brainwashed-by-group/news-story/733f7526cfff6283ea7c4535f9c009e4

If she was a man that joined ISIS she'd have been doing the killing.
As previously stated, I think this narrative is just to pave the way for all of them to be returned to where they came from.