Like everybody else, British Muslims, especially women and girls, are entitled to the protection of the law. However, as Geoffrey Robertson QC explains (page 30), British citizens who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria, Iraq or elsewhere must be made to understand that the long arm of our law will reach them wherever they hide. Never before, at least in modern times, have British citizens committed such heinous offences; the War Crimes Act 1991 was intended to deal with those who had escaped justice for Nazi crimes by becoming British citizens, but only one person was convicted under it. As unprecedented as our predicament is the task of bringing the culprits to court and gathering evidence reliable enough to convict them. As Robertson says, we have not only the right but the duty to put war criminals on trial if they fall under our jurisdiction by virtue of their origins. The murder of Western hostages has rightly outraged public opinion, but the law should have no less regard for the unknown numbers of other victims of British jihadists flying the black flag of Islamic State. Their blood, like that of Abel, cries out for justice.

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