Former British Government adviser wants Hero status for Muslims who go to Jihad in Syria

(London) Farooq Siddiqui, a former senior British government adviser on tackling radicalisation and extremism, has defended the right of British Muslims to travel to Syria and fight. He does this by saying it is acceptable for British Muslims to "walk the walk" and travel to Syria to fight the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Siddiqui bases his stance on how Jewish Britons were free to join the Israeli Defence Force and return to the UK without censure, while Muslims taking up arms against what they viewed as a tyrannical dictator, Assad, faced arrest.

Ah, the last I looked, Israel is a sovereign state (no matter what the haters claim) and its military abides by the rule of law (no matter what the haters claim). The idiots who bugger off to Syria (and elsewhere) for Allah have no problem oppressing, torturing and murdering those who don't subscribe to their bigoted ways, and I've yet to hear of any Jews carrying out indiscriminate suicide bomb attacks on hospitals, schools or markets.

Funny enough Mr Siddiqui claims he didn't know who ISIS were when he said the above in February, but he's adamant that in his eyes, men who travel to Syria to fight Assad shouldn't be locked up on their return, rather, I presume, he feels they should be treated as heroes.