It´s not illegal in Denmark to participate or to encourage people to sign up for the war in Syria, only if it can be proven that they adhere to a terrorist organization, which can be difficult

If you encourage people to commit terrorism, you can be punished with imprisonment up to 6 years.

To support a terrorist organization is legal as long as you don´t directly or indirectly provide financial support for it. In such cases, you can be convicted by up to 10 years imprisonment.

Here in Belgium it is punishable.
Sharia$bBelgium is for example brought to court for recruting Syria fighters.
How about in other parts of the world?

Originally Posted by Kesse81

Yes!
When you live in a democratic country, then sympathy and ideology is not illegal.
Another thing is if you actively support with money, then it could possibly be that it becomes criminal.

You can´t control people´s thoughts - you can suppress them, and that´s it
And who should decide who´s a terrorist or freedom fighter

Che Guevara, what was he?

I will go no they are not entirely innocent.

The entire allied bombing campaign over Germany during WW2 was premised by the idea that German civilians were supporting the German war effort and therefore legitimate targets, it didn't matter whether they were one month or one century old, it did not matter whether they were ardent Nazis, anti-Nazis or foreign slave labour.

We carried out the same philosophy over Japan, North Korea, North Vietnam and in Iraq sure in later years with more accurate weapons we tried to avoid civilian casualties but in reality they were only passed off as "wrong place, wrong time" or collateral damage.

As such how can we now argue that civilians working/living in ISIS held areas are not legitimate targets.

The idea that democracies hold some things so sacred that will will not and can not go there is a fallacy as democracies will do what it takes just like dictatorships to survive and once it is over we will write the history to validate our actions.

So the answer to who should decide who´s a terrorist or freedom fighter is the winner will decide.

Interesting point of view.
Thank you for sharing.

Many of the best mercenaries came from Belgium during the African wars perhaps that is the sprit Belgium's want to fight for ISIS for the money .

Syria rebells not bring the action against IS because Syrian Army and Air Force is powerful all ready. Syrian Armies can fight back against IS if they rebells retire. Not that war I'm will rebells no more need to fight against IS. Syrian Army and Air Force can do the job like United States and France in Iraq.

Originally Posted by tetvet

Many of the best mercenaries came from Belgium during the African wars perhaps that is the sprit Belgium's want to fight for ISIS for the money .

Those days are past.
With Belgium no longer having the service law, no one goes to the army.
We also seem to think to build our army further down, not taking new recruits.

And it are not mercs: it's youth being made crazy by for one Sharia4Belgium.
This is a society problem: youth have nothing to go for here.
And thus they seek their thing elsewhere.

It's not just Belgium, seems the whole planet took an IQ-dive.