Quora Answer: How Do Countries Who Had ISIS Fighters Punish Them When They Try to Return?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “How would the countries, who had citizens fight for ISIS, properly punish them if they tried to return to their home country?” 

The answer is straightforward: arrest them, try them, and have them executed.  In Singapore, it is to be hung until dead. The crime, in this case, is sedition and waging war against the state.  I do not believe in rehabilitation for these Wahhabi terrorists.  This should be applied regardless of whether they are male or female.  There is no such thing as a lesser penalty for these ISIS brides.  They are not innocents or victims; they are enablers and supporters.  And those below the age of majority, but close to it, the court should be given special dispensation to try them as adults. 

It is only natural that when we have an infection, we address it at the root.  These people will always be a source of propaganda and inspiration, even when they are dead.  The difference is that dead people do not spin new stories.  Hang enough terrorist and the rest of the population will understand that there is no misguided softness when it comes to addressing an existential threat to the secular state.