Today, MPs will debate and vote on a resolution which does what the Government has been unwilling to do: name ISIS’s crimes in Syria and Iraq as genocide. A recent ComRes poll shows that the British majority agrees. People want the UK to use its international influence to bring an end to the ongoing atrocities in the Middle East.
ISIS is a clear and present threat to the freedoms we all too often thoughtlessly enjoy. The self-declared caliphate scorns international law and the liberty it enshrines. It acknowledges no authority but its own perverted ideology. Its purpose is to eradicate all opposed to its message of conformity and brutal hatred. It is spreading like a cancer across the Middle East and into Africa, and in its wake thousands are dead, disenfranchised or displaced.
