Give them a job: how Denmark deals with returned Islamist fighters

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Who would’ve thought that treating people would some basic human decency, rather than dehumanising them, would actually have a better outcome? /s

Foreign fighter laws and roll-out-the-welcome-mat laws both strike me as questionable. Why not just subject returning islamist fighters to the same legal obligations and protections as everyone else?

For Denmark - of all places - to show that kind of openness to islamists is certainly impressive on some levels. It’ll be very interesting to watch how it goes…

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