Saudi Arabia facilitating Daesh: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Massoud Shadjareh, a member of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, in London, to discuss the Takfiri Daesh militant group’s atrocities in Afghanistan.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: What is strange is how ISIL has franchised into Afghanistan; it seems like overnight but obviously this has taken some time. This is the place that the US is supposed to have defeated Taliban. What is your reaction regarding this piece of news of them beheading some people there in Afghanistan?
Shadjareh: Well, there are a couple of things which are extremely concerning. One is the fact that we know that Daesh is operating in places where really they should not be, with the all the bombings that so-called collective US and European and some of the Persian Gulf states are actually coordinating. Really Daesh would be badly damaged and it has not, and they are still receiving arms, they are still receiving revenues from oil and oil is not something that you could hide in your pocket and smuggle it out of the country.
The reality is that this shows that they are getting support for their activities and from so-called allies who are supposed to be opposing them. Now we see they are spreading all around the world and then at the same time you are seeing that they are implementing the policy of the West and Saudi Arabia by using sectarianism as a tool of trying to divide and rule the Muslim community. And the amount of effort that they are putting in killing so many fellow Muslims for all sorts of different excuses shows that, ideologically, they are implementing the policy of Saudi Arabia, which is supported by the United States and West.
Even the bombing of Russian airliner, it actually highlights why suddenly they bomb a foreign airline while all this time they were being attacked by the Americans and Europeans and the Saudis and the rest of their allies and they never took such an action. It shows that the opposition that Russia is implementing is working while what West is saying is nothing [but] empty words and really no effect whatsoever.
I think we need to look at Daesh not just as a phenomenon that has been created and emerged in the region. We need to look at it very much so from who is supporting it, who is actually making it possible for Daesh to be the force that it is and what ideological aspect is implementing, which could only be traced back to Saudi Arabia, which is the number one supporting state by the United States.
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