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Egypt To Help Combat ISIS Through Politics, Religion

Egypt To Help Combat ISIS Through Politics, Religion

From Ahram Online

Egypt’s role against the Islamic State (IS) will be a “political and religious” one, and not necessarily involve its military, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Wednesday.
“At this moment we are concentrating on political [efforts],” Shoukry told CNN on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“We are concentrating on utilising our religious institutions to impact the ability of these organisations to recruit new fighters and of course to cut off the funding and to provide information,” he said.

The US and its Arab allies including Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates struck IS jihadists in Syria on Tuesday.

Egypt and nine other Arab states formed a coalition with the US earlier in September to collaborate against the militant group.

In an earlier interview with CBS, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi seemed reluctant to reveal details about his country’s potential role in the fight against IS.

Read more at Ahram Online