Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
Recognise the Islamic State. Anyone who goes there is assumed to become a citizen of said state. Remove the western citizenship of anyone who goes there. Anyone who has any kind of sympathy for that state has next to nothing in common with the vast majority of us.
I can see the attraction of letting IS/Daesh exist to function as some sort of sinkhole that will attract people who don't want western society and who can therefore be missed like a sore tooth. Kind of like the world's toilet.

The problem is: "we" are never going to recognise Daesh as a sovereign entity for fairly obvious reasons. They claim territory from states that we do recognise and they're sure as hell never going to treat other states as peers, which is kind of a prerequisite for diplomatic recognition of any kind. This, and the fact that they're a bunch of murderous savages and all that.

I don't really see much value in stripping citizenship as a criminal punishment, anyway.