Leave. Them. There.

It really could not be more simple a solution.

They knew what they were doing. They knew what they wanted. Now that their gangs of rapists and murderers are fleeing to the four winds, they wave a flag until someone agrees to pick them up.

Screw you.

With U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces advancing on ISIL’s last stronghold in the village of Baghouz, some 20,000 people have fled the area. The male ISIL fighters have been jailed, with the women kept under guard at refugee camps.

The four-year coalition war to wipe out ISIL’s self-declared “caliphate” has entered its final sequence, and a number of so-called ISIL brides have told their stories to the world’s media. Facing harrowing conditions and uncertain futures, their tales include remorse and regret as well as defiance and bitterness. ...

“It was an easy life. It was a city. It was stable,” Ahmed said of the time, in 2014, when she had first gone to Raqqa, Syria. “You’re there and you’re eating Pringles and Twix bars. You’re just there. You don’t feel like you’re in a war.”

Asked about ISIL’s use of slaves, her answer was blunt:

“Well, having slaves is part of Sharia. I believe in Sharia, wherever Sharia is. We must follow whoever is implementing the way, the law.”

“No,” she responded when asked if she had any regrets over making the trip.

Even for the children, Belgian sympathy goes only so far. Many people are anxious. Belgium contributed the largest number of Islamic State fighters to Syria per capita of any European Union nation, and the country remains scarred by the attacks of 2016, when Belgian citizens with Islamic State connections targeted Brussels with deadly bombings. Discussions on talk shows and in editorial pages have stoked fear about what the children may have learned from their parents or from Islamic State training camps, which targeted children as young as 6 for indoctrination – although little evidence exists that any of the Belgians were exposed.

Yes, about that:

In Belgium, for instance, a secular primary school in Ronse reported in the spring of 2017 that some Muslim children "called others 'pigs' or 'unbelievers.' They made murder motions by drawing their fingers over their throats." According to one teacher cited in the report, some students have stopped coming to school "because the school's vision doesn't fit with their beliefs," and a toddler in her class has already been promised in marriage to a boy in Morocco. Another girl refused to stand next to boys in line.

That man, Mohammed Khalifa, captured in Syria last month by a U.S.-backed militia, spoke in his first interview about being the voice of the 2014 video, known as “Flames of War.” He described himself as a rank-and-file employee of the Islamic State’s Ministry of Media, the unit responsible for publicizing such brutal footage as the beheading of American journalist James Foley and the burning of a Jordanian pilot.

“No, I don’t regret it,” Khalifa said from a prison in northeastern Syria. “I was asked the same thing by my interrogators, and I told them the same thing.”

Also:

Under the current laws, advocating for terrorism is a crime. Under the new laws, it only will be if a specific person is being directly counselled.

(Sidebar: kind of like being directed to drop prosecution of a certain Quebec company.)

How could this go wrong?