[Al Ahram] The Moslem Brüderbund group has created a "jihadist ideology" now utilised by all Lion of Islam groups worldwide, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Friday. In comments to the state news agency MENA, Shoukry urged the international community to combat all terrorist groups, not only the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group which has seized large swathes of Syria and Iraq and is expanding its presence in Libya.
"Egypt calls for a comprehensive terrorism-combating operation that targets all terrorist organizations whether Islamic State, [Nigeria's Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
] or [Syria's Al-Qaeda branch] the Nusra Front or any other group," Shoukry said on the sidelines of a ministerial conference in Beirut.
"These groups should be dealt with equally firmly and with the same determination of the international coalition fighting Islamic State," he said
The US along with a number of Western and Arab states have been carrying out air strikes on Islamic State fightersfor nine months, which Washington said have killed over 10,000 IS krazed killers.
But the Egyptian minister said that it is equally necessary to focus on using political, cultural and economic means to confront to the ideologies of Lion of Islam groups, on top of which is the Moslem Brüderbund.
The minister said the group, which Egypt designated as a terrorist organization in 2013, was behind "this exclusionary jihadist ideology" now used by all Lion of Islam groups in the world.
"There is no group less terrorist than the other. Terrorism is terrorism," he said.