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MCB: Airstrikes in Syria will be ‘another recruiting sergeant for the terrorists’

November 30, 2015 at 1:03 pm

Daesh is an “evil entity, opposed by the vast majority of Muslims around the world”, a senior member of the Muslim Council of Britain declared today.

In the statement, Dr Shuja Shafi, secretary-general of the MCB, added that any effective action against Daesh will enjoy “widespread support from British Muslims”.

This support however does not include the belief that intensified airstrikes in Syria will be effective in curtailing the violence in the region but instead will prove to “be another recruiting sergeant for the terrorists and their odious ideology”. As Daesh seeks more Western military intervention in the region “to corroborate its hateful narrative”, the statement explained.

Shuja urges the government “to deploy its considerable diplomatic influence to create the political, economic and strategic conditions for Daesh to be rendered impotent.”

The MCB has also urged the government to “pressure all states in the region, particularly Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey to resolve their differences and re-focus their energies against Daesh” and to apply greater financial penalties and sanctions against states actively or indirectly funding Daesh.

British Parliament is set to debate whether to extend airstrikes to include Syria this week.