Muslims Not Doing Enough to Fight IS: Jordan’s Queen

Jordan: Queen Rania of Jordan said that moderate Muslims were not doing enough to fight against IS extremists and their diabolical ideology. Speaking at a major French business gathering in Jouy-en-Josas near Paris, the 44-year-old Queen said that helping the Middle East’s youth was crucial in the fight against the extremist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria on Jordan’s doorstep. “We are facing a time of great peril. Daesh, or the so-called Islamic State, continues to spread its diabolical ideology,” she said. “Moderate Muslims the world over are not doing enough to win the ideological struggle at the heart of this battle,” she noted. Focusing on the youth of the Middle East, many of whom are unemployed or forced to flee their countries, was a necessity, she said. According to the queen, some 100 million jobs must be created in the region by 2020, to avoid disaffected young people from joining the ranks of jihadists. “Failure is not an option because if we fail in the face of these extremists and if they win, the region will quickly be devastated.”