Ugly face of ISIL

Sir: It is time to help eradicate terrorists, especially ISIL, and expose its ugly face. This is an organisation that like other terrorists is working under the garb of a distorted version of Islam. It has mostly inflicted pain on Muslims all over the world, killing and maiming them, spreading the venom of sectarian strife, weakening every country with a majority Muslim population, rendering them unable to confront any external threats from those who have very intelligently exploited religion to create this monster. Today Islam, a religion whose Prophet (PBUH) preached peace, tolerance, patience, acquiring of knowledge and stressed upon human values, has been misrepresented. It has wrongly portrayed the image that only those who are opposed to Islam would like it to be seen as. Since these various terrorist organisations have emerged, numerous Muslim majority countries have disintegrated and been reduced to pariah states, isolating them from the community of nations. Countries like Afghanistan have been reduced to rubble, while nations like Iraq, Syria and Libya have been engulfed in civil wars, to the benefit and delight of Israel.

Unless we cut off funding that finances these terrorists, this Frankenstein’s monster cannot be defeated. Both the criminal economy and external finances need to be eliminated with an iron hand. Pakistan’s disciplined military under the leadership of General Raheel Sharif must work in cohesion with the elected civilian government, ensuring that the constitution remains supreme, and nobody is above the law or accountability. Pakistan must have an intelligent anti-extremism strategy to combat this “Muslim poison” as it is being termed by British Prime Minister David Cameron.
MALIK TARIQ
Dubai