Alwaght-A British minister says the only way of dealing with most of the British ISIS terrorist groups fighters in Syria is to kill them.
Rory Stewart, international development minister, said converts to the terror group believed in an “extremely hateful doctrine” and fighters could expect to be killed given the threat they posed to British security.
Hundreds of British citizens are known to have travelled to Syria to fight with Takfiri terrorist groups during the course of the six-year conflict. Brett McGurk, a top US envoy for the coalition fighting ISIS, has said his mission is to ensure every foreign ISIS fighter in Syria dies in Syria.
Stewart was asked about the comments on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Pienaar’s Politics. The minister said there were “very difficult moral issues”, adding “These are people who have essentially moved away from any kind of allegiance towards the British government".
“They are absolutely dedicated, as members of the ISIS, towards the creation of a caliphate. They believe in an extremely hateful doctrine which involves killing themselves, killing others and trying to use violence and brutality to create an eighth-century or seventh-century state.
“So I’m afraid we have to be serious about the fact these people are a serious danger to us, and unfortunately the only way of dealing with them will be, in almost every case, to kill them.”
Authorities warned last year that around 850 UK nationals had traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the terror groups that are wreaking havoc in those countries.
In early September, the European Union’s top terror official Gilles de-Kerchove warned that Britain was home to up to 25,000 Takfiri extremists who could pose a terrorist threat to the country and the rest of Europe.
According to Kerchove, about 3,000 of the suspects are considered a direct threat by MI5 – Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency.
