UK propping of Saudi Arabia helps Daesh grow: Analyst
A recent decision by the UK to allegedly bolster the international fight against the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Iraq is not expected to yield any significant results as long as London supports Saudi Arabia which is a key backer of the terror group, says a professor and political analyst.
Dr. Rodney Shakespeare made the comments on Thursday over UK Defense Minister Michael Fallon’s announcement of new troop deployment to Iraq.
Fallon made the announcement in a written statement to the parliament, saying the country would send 250 more soldiers to the Arab country in addition to the 300 that were already there.
Shakespeare expressed awe at the announcement, saying Fallon’s statements indicate London’s double standard in fighting the terror group.
“I find it quite astonishing that the UK defense minister should inform us of increased troops to fight Daesh in Iraq where at the same time our national policy is actually to support Daesh,” said Shakespeare.
Shakespeare referred to London’s support for the Riyadh regime’s ongoing atrocities in Yemen and its assistance in the heavy-handed crackdown on Bahrain’s popular uprising, saying the British government was in fact promoting Daesh.
“This is the way which the public is being deceived,” he explained. “We are appearing to attack and to fight the symptoms but what we are really doing is not just allowing but actually promoting the cause.”
Pointing to the UK’s recent decision to depart from the European Union as a sign that Britain seemed to be rethinking its affairs, Shakespeare hoped that the country’s foreign policy would also undergo some changes in the process.
Britain’s foreign policy “is devoted towards suppressing any form of democracy in the Middle East, it is devoted towards supporting the creeping genocide committed by the Israelis in Palestine, and at the same time it is committed towards supporting these brutal monstrous monstrosity which is Wahhabism that is to say Saudi Arabia,” Shakespeare further explained.
Riyadh is widely viewed as one of the major supporters of Daesh, mainly operating in Syria and Iraq.
Takfirism, which is the terrorist group’s trademark, is largely influenced by Wahhabism, the radical ideology dominating Saudi Arabia and freely preached by Saudi clerics.
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