“Patrick Weil, a political scientist who met Hollande and advised him against the decision, said France would become ‘the first democracy in the world’ to enshrine in its constitution the principle of unequal treatment of dual nationals. ‘It introduces the idea of a different penalty for the same act, just because of the random chance of their birth,’ said Weil, who teaches at Yale University in the United States.” Very well. Then strip all jihad terrorists of their passports, or find some other way to acknowledge the fact that by going to fight for the Islamic State or some other jihad group, they have effectively declared war against their homeland, and should be considered traitors, at very least.

Hollande’s plan may be largely symbolic, but at least it has the advantage of being realistic about Western jihadis’ mindset and goals for their home country, which the Left is — true to form — ignoring as they try to make this into a racial issue. “The Vichy regime, which collaborated with the Nazis in the 1940s, stripped thousands of Jews and foreigners of French citizenship during World War II.” This is actually no analogy: the Jews were not waging war against Vichy France or anyone else. They were not leaving French territory to train with groups that had declared their intention to destroy France and murder French civilians inside France, and then returning to do just those things.

“Fury as Hollande calls to strip terrorist passports,” The Local, December 30, 2015: