The U.S.-led airstrike campaign is hardly a plausible solution to quelling the encroaching and horrific reign of Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, says the Rev. Nadim Nassar, the lone Syrian Anglican minister and director of the London, England-based, Christian charity, Awareness Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can\u2019t be the solution because it only adds to the casualties and destruction to the region,\u201d\u009d said Nassar, who spoke at a gathering Oct. 28 at St. John\u2019s (Stone) Church. \u201cThe only solution is to dry out external resources that it relies on and all the veins that are feeding it.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Military response merely provides a distraction, he said, \u00c2\u00ad\u00c2\u00ad a \u201cshow that they are doing something\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201dwhile the situation worsens daily as more than a million dollars a day is pumped into the operations of the Islamic State (known as ISIS or ISIL), a radical group of insurgents in Iraq and Syria and an offshoot of the Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n
The alternative, said Nassar, is to pinpoint the source of its funding rather than to raise arms.<\/p>\n