Is "Jihadi Jack" Canada's Problem Now?
Jack Letts — known to some as “Jihadi Jack” — is a British-Canadian accused of joining ISIS as a teenager. He is being held in a jail in northern Syria after being captured by Kurdish forces in 2014. But over the weekend, we learned that the U.K. has stripped him of his citizenship, meaning that the only country he now legally belongs to is Canada. Host Tamara Khandaker talks to extremism researcher Amarnath Amarasingam, assistant professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University. They unpack the issue around Jack Letts’ citizenship and what the government should do about Canadians accused of being ISIS fighters in Syria — and if they should bring them here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
