IS THIS A GOOD IDEA? Swedish ISIS fighters to have passports taken.

A new law to allow Swedish authorities to confiscate the passports of Swedes who are known to have fought alongside extremists in Syria or Iraq is being drafted by the government. . . .

The move to confiscate passports from known Swedish extremists follows similar strategies in the UK, France and Germany.

A similar policy did not pan out well in Canada. A man who attacked two Canadian soldiers with a car, killing one and injuring the other, had had his passport revoked by the authorities on suspicion he was going to join a militant group abroad. Another man killed a soldier while his passport application was being investigated. A police commissioner said that the “passport issue was central to what was driving” him. Presumably, his application would have been denied had he been suspected of wanting to fight for ISIS or a similar group.