Islamic forces will defeat Daesh


(MENAFN- The Peninsula) By Jamal Khashoggi

The conquest over Daesh in Syria is not too difficult but it is more difficult in Iraq unless the same armies in Syria that defeated Daesh join the struggle in Iraq. To find them then call on all the opposition fighters who raised the flag of Syria on Al Raqqa Municipality building.

Off course the battle in Iraq which will begin from Al Raqqah and proceed to Al Mosul will need many days and complicated diplomatic moves but the people are unified and want to expel Daesh and every dictator and sectarian.

When Daesh became well known two years ago more than one US commander and even President Obama himself said that “the conquest over Daesh will take several years and one of his commanders said it would take ten years”. What they said would be true if it was just America fighting Daesh or if any another tyrannical regime army like Bashar Al Assad’s or sectarian troops such as the Iraqi army and Al Hashd Al Sha’abi fight Daesh.

That is because the people of Al Raqqah and Al Mosul and Al Sunnah don’t want Daesh to govern them and this is the simple secret which America and Russia do not yet know or perhaps they know but they don’t want to admit it.

Daesh’s defeat will be faster for more than 1000 reasons if Saudi Arabia and other Islamic Sunni forces support the troops defending the Syrian people. For America it is better not to join the battle directly but just to protect the Islamic army from Russian treachery.

These troops will defeat the Syrian regime and the Iranians for good reasons. The first one is because it is their land and they know the tribes and secondly it is in their interest and Daesh is not the future that they want for their country. It is also due to the fact that they do not agree with the Daesh interpretation of the religion and see it as extremism.

The third reason is that anyone who has suffered from Daesh and who after joining them has left them to cooperate with the Islamic Army either Saudis or Turks will not fear any treachery from them as they will not take their money and will not burn any mosques. The comparison here is very clear because I am talking about what Al Hashd Al Sha’abi did in Iraq when it entered Al Ramadi and Al Anbar not to free it but to take revenge on it.

Here is the explanation for the first paragraph that the conquest over Daesh in Iraq by a local army is easier in Syria than in Iraq. The people of Al Mosul and Al Fallujah and other Sunni Iraqi cities are caught between two fires.

It seems that people in the Iraqi region have to either choose to have patience with the extremism of IS waiting for help from heaven or to join them and cooperate with their extremism and terrorism. IS is a popular crowd- even the Iraqi Army have been associated with them. They tested them in the past.

IS were exposed during the tenure of Former Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Al Maliki. During his rule his men and intelligence personnel scattered throughout the street of their cities. There were corrupt people bribe seekers tyrants and aggressors among them. IS emerged from these streets holding a black flag. The officials of the Bath Party in the past also wore black turbans. They did not care to safeguard their cities. So IS seemed no worse.

The international sanctions UN resolutions and unclear intentions of the US made keeping people safe difficult if not impossible until the will of Washington changed. A similar situation of unrest happened in Syria so the troops defending the Syrian people allied with their Iraqi brothers to struggle for freedom from oppression.

So the people of the Eastern part of Syria headed to Iraq. They feared only God. Kurdish forces centred in Al Qamshili and Al Haska backed by the Assad regime did not support this alliance.

A setback in the struggle has been that the US has hardly agreed to support its allies- Saudi Arabia and Turkey in their campaign against Daesh. The Bashar Assad regime were backed by Russia and Iran who have not hesitated to help it at all costs. These three used Daesh and their foolish suicidal individuals who killed others and themselves as well without knowing anything about religion and politics.

These factors indicate the scale of the challenges that are being faced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia- on the one hand the gathering of religious alliances under-the-table from south of Turkey to Incirlik in the north and on the other the manoeuvring with political alliances in Washington and other capitals of western countries.

Their allies’ intentions are not clear. Quite often what they say does not match what they do. Some of them have their own agendas. However the determination of King Salman of Saudi Arabia has brought them in line. So now they all apparently share the vision of Saudi Arabia which is goodness and stability for all.

Another reason that victory will be secured against Daesh is that it claims (contrary to its horrendous example) that it is marching out for the victory of Islamic Law against tyranny and sectarianism. The renegade army is saying that they are an “Islamic Alliance” and are holding the Islamic flag with the intention of building a state of justice.

Their only strategy however is to eradicate other ideologies by rooting out people with such ideologies. In effect they create soldiers who are forced to fight and consequently either eventually they will be imprisoned or killed as the criminals they are.

The writer is a Saudi Arabian journalist columnist and author and the General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of Al Arab News Channel.


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