Posted on 12/20/2015 4:01:18 PM PST by Mariner
The West is making a strategic mistake by focusing its anti-terrorist effort on Islamic State (IS. previously ISIS/ISIL) and overlooking other groups, an upcoming report claims. Sixty percent of fighters in the country can be classified as Islamists and have goals similar to IS.
Those fighters belong to at least 15 other militant groups, which are mostly being ignored by the West, British media cited the Centre on Religion & Geopolitics, a think-tank run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, as saying.
Fewer than one quarter of the groups surveyed by the center had no ideological agenda, but many of them were willing to fight alongside the Islamists and accept their leadership in a post-war Syria.
“The West risks making a strategic failure by focusing only on IS. Defeating it militarily will not end global jihadism. We cannot bomb an ideology, but our war is ideological,†said the report, due to be published Monday, as cited by the Guardian.
The report comes days after the UN Security Council passed a roadmap to a political transition in Syria. The resolution adopted on Friday lists only two militant groups in Syria, IS and the Al Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda branch, as banned from negotiating the future of the country under UN aegis.
The report warned that if IS is defeated, it may give impetus for terrorist attacks outside of Syria under a rallying cry that "the West destroyed the caliphate."
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Radical Islam is like the mythological Hydra.
You cannot simply “cut off the head of the snake”.
All they gotta do is announce a free goat give away on Sunday morning, 9:00 am. Everybody at once is invited, everybody gets a free goat.
At 9:00.05, booooom (fuel/air booom)
Correct. the “Syrian rebels” are jihadis
No. Syria and Iraq are the source centers of civilisation — Sumeria, Akkad, Assyria, Aram, etc. — the monuments remain and are world heritage points — European civilisation originates from these through Greece and Rome and Jerusalem.
Russia is going after all — kill em all.
The terms, “Moderate”, “Rebel”, “Jihadist”, “HAMAS”, “PLO”, “Hizbollah” , “Nasura Front”, etc., etc. are all the same and we must simply kill them all with 30 straight days of Carpet Bombing and then ask them if they still like being killed? If that does not work, pour it on for another 30 days...
Right on the money you are!
OK. How about neutron bombs? No property damage.
Though ideally one must remember that the ancestors of these were among the first Christians, so a conquest and forced conversion would be better
There’s no way they’re converting...they will do their best to convert & kill you, nope, must eliminate that scourge from the planet...
It's not just the trilogy, it's also being uncircumcised.
Christianity worships the wooden cross...prays and rests once on Sundays...
Islam worships the black Kaaba stone...prays 5 times a day, rests on Fridays...
Jews worship a G-d that they cannot name...pray 3 times a day, rests on Saturdays...
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