Islamists offered way out of extremist groups

Stop coddeling these SOB. A tiger cannot change its strips. Only solution,firm up German laws, arrest them up when they violate German law and put them on trial.

@erdinger - its daft ideas like yours that push the young and idealist into the hands of extremists in the first place. Unfortunately, once they are there and see that the radicals have some pretty daft ideas too, they can't get out.

Maybe you have never made a mistake, but most people do - and if someone decides that associating too closely with dangerous people was a mistake then allowing him to correct himself sounds like a cheaper solution than yours.

Candidates and their families will receive help changing locations, seeking occupational qualifications and deflecting threats.

I think this is a good way to get the extremist to intregrate into our communities a little easier.

This is what I call the 'Snakehead Fish' Phenomena.

Its where some Bleeding Heart throws a Pet Shop bought Asian Snakehead Fish into European and American lakes and streams, to 'Save the poor thing'. Only to have that same fish and its offspring threaten to eliminate all native species.

It is nothing to do with preventing radicalization and sleepers - just the opposite. These guys are generally unknown to the authorities and already with extremists - but want out. Giving them a free pass means the authorities know who and where they are, which they didn't before, they get information and they make a friend for life.

I'm sure John le Carre can come up with some scenario where extremists use it to their advantage, but it is common for far worse 'mafia style' bad guys than the misguided kids targeted here.

The US throws people out of the US who were Nazis. The whole civilized world should do the same with radical jihadists, before we end up tore to pieces like Lebanon for allowing these vipers in our homes. They have no place in the Free world.

Moral relativism is not the way to go here. To simply say that everyone makes mistakes, so we should allow radical jihadists a chance to rehabilitate themselves is absurd. Yes, people make mistakes, like drunk-driving, getting in to fights, going in to too much debt, or what have you, but very very few people will ever become radical extremists looking to murder people who don't see eye-to-eye with their narrow-minded worldview and topple western society altogether. Only a select few even have that kind of mindset, and those that do should not be allowed back in to civilized society. This is right up a terrorist's alley. If anything, they will pretend to want out, so they can better infiltrate civilization, only to go berserk and claim their 99 virgins in the end. All radical extremism should be mercilessly stamped out; fight fire with fire. It may be unpleasant, but that's the nature of war. So many in the west would like to pretend like this isn't a real problem, and that we're not really at war. It goes far beyond bad blood. These radicals truly believe that western society; i.e. women's rights, alcohol, capitalism, gay rights, atheism, etc... are equivalent to Satan worship (who they don't see as a mythological being, but as a real entity that seeks to undermine morality). They resent seemingly insignificant things like bikinis, Oktoberfest, casinos, rock music, and the like, and view everyone who values such things as degenerate. This mean, even if we were to sing, "Why Can't We Be Friends" to them, they'd want our heads for singing. It may be unpleasant and unfortunate, but there is no negotiating with these people. You will never make friends by invading a country, but you can, however, break the enemy's spirits and crush their will to resist. That's pretty much our only option when it comes to people who are willing to kill children because they will grow up to become decadent westerners.

The Islamic jihadists/terrorists have already won. Get used to it.

@JAMessersmith Right on man preach it like it is!. A cheaper and more effective way to stop the terrorism is with a .38 cent bullet. But so long as people in the world think that these terrorists want to integrate and or can be "rehabilitated" this will never change. It has been their mission for thousands of years. Why should today's generation of bleeding heart liberals think that they can change these people? I mean Russian tried it in the late70's till the late 80's and after what ten years gave up and pulled out of Afghanistan. It's the same everywhere you turn these days, some say the Westerners just don't understand these people and because of that they are victims. That's a bunch of crap. Their ideology will formed over hundreds of years will not be changed overnight.

The allies in Afghanistan already have an opt-out programme. It's called Kill Them All.

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Reader X --

What exactly is a "bleeding heart liberal," and why must you resort to cheap slogans to discuss an issue that is nonpartisan? Are you unable to make a cogent point without resorting to bumper sticker terminology?

The problem is not your "terrorist on the ground". The problem is the people who twist his/her religion. Many of these of these extreme idealists have been made so by their "religious leaders" convincing them that following their form of religion is the only true way to "God". Many of them would not recognise true islam in comparisonn to the extreme form they have been told is the truth (caveat: I am no expert on Islam. I am only repeating what I have heard from muslims.)

I do believe that people change and grow over time. Especially ones that were very young when they were corrupted, and have quietly, over age and wisdom, found the error of their ways. It would be nice if we could find a way to allow them to start over.

That being said, if it's too difficult to sort them out from the ones that want to destroy our civilization, then they will have to be casualties. Sorry.