Has ISIS Really Vanished?

By Abdelhak Azzouzi 

CAIRO, March 24 (SEE)-Western leaders have welcomed Syria’s democratic forces victory over last ISIS bastion on the banks of Euphrates River in Syria.

For the Pentagon, it was just a historical moment of victory as the US has been fighting an internecine war against such terrorist organization for years.

Militarily, the US can admit it has been pursuing a successful strategy with and through proxy forces; as Kurdish factions in Syria and security forces in Iraq have suffered so many casualties during this war.

Regretfully, ISIS still have thousands of fighters in other countries. The question posed is: Does ISIS defeat on ground mean its permanent disappearance and does Trump’s decision to withdraw most of his forces out of Syria, a reckless one, may drive the whole scene to a completely different end.

This happy news and global joy after defeating ISIS in Syria showed how all countries agreed upon one single goal- the extermination of this organization’s move on ground as well as via the internet.

This kind of violence pursued by ISIS is a frequent move carried out by Boko Haram activities in Mali, Al-Qaeda in Yemen, other extremist groups in Sinai and Sub- Sahara African desert.

All these groups’ moves aim at carrying out criminal acts in the name of religion; this fake appearance is quite like a magnet that attract youth and third generation Muslim community living in Europe and the US and thus threatening the whole world.

These groups’ names are just a name of one major terrorism and they always exploit religion for the sake of opportunism as well as justifying bloodshed from Quran verses and considering their greedy actions as Shariah laws.

International alliance’s warplanes can wipe out whole villages and cities from global geographic map, but the real war that should be waged is the war of the pen and tongue.

We have to fight ISIS in the coming decades and combat the disease from its roots instead of just eliminating a part of it and let it grow again.

The international alliance succeeded in defeating ISIS and achieved its minor goal by eliminating only one bloody group.

Despite all of this, what would we do if another terrorist groups resurface in Africa or the Arab world?

The only solution is to start from our countries, educational institutions and reformulate heritage books in line with our tolerant religion teachings which call for wisdom besides building one single human family.

When issues become either right or wrong, good or bad, white or black, a ruler becomes either an angel or devil and a person becomes either a Muslim or infidel, there will not be any logic, differences, freedom, doubt as well as improvement and enhancement.

When all these extreme ideologies prevail, everything will be determinate and firm and this will surely be a great disaster and a war that will turn everything to ashes.