Sunnis, Main Victims of ISIL Atrocities: British Scholar
Shaykh Muhammad Umar ibn Ramadhan, the chairman of Ramadhan Foundation in Britain who is on a visit to Iraq, noted that more Sunnis than Shias have fallen victim to the Takfiri group’s atrocities, Noon news agency reported.
"What we witnessed in Iraq is that this is not a sectarian war among Iraqi citizens but a conflict between ISIL and the Iraqi nation,” he said.
Clearly, Shaykh Muhammad Umar added, the majority of victims of ISIL crimes are Sunnis.
He also noted that 64 young British nationals have joined the terrorist group, saying that investigations should be launched into why so many young people have left the European country to join ISIL.
Shaykh Muhammad Umar is visiting Iraq at the head of a delegation of Sunni scholars from Britain to learn about the conditions of the Arab country, the fight against Takfiri terrorists and the role of Shia sources of emulation in mobilizing Iraqis in the fight against terrorism.
The British delegation has so far paid visits to the holy shrines of Imam Hussein (AS) and Hazrat Abbas (AS) in Karbala, Imam Ali (AS) in Najaf, Imam Musa Kadhim (AS) and Imam Javad (AS) in Khadhamyan and Imam Hadi (AS) and Imam Hassan Askari (AS) in Samarra, among others.
The ISIL terrorists made advances in northern and western Iraq over summer 2014, after capturing swaths of northern Syria.
However, a combination of concentrated attacks by the Iraqi military and the volunteer forces, who rushed to take arms after top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling for fight against the militants, blunted the edge of the ISIL offensive.
