He said that local forces estimated that between “500 and 750 fighters have joined the Islamic caliphate from the United Kingdom”.
Rory Stewart MP, the Tory chairman of the defence select committee who was also in Iraq, said Islamic State was now a “significant threat”.
He added: “We have been complacent. This has been developing a long time. In some ways these people have been in Mosul for two and a half years and we worked up to it about two and a half months ago.
“We ignored them when they were developing in eastern Syria, we ignored them when they took Fallujah in January. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11039214/Our-generational-struggle-against-a-poisonous-ideology.html
Almost wake up time...almost. The only thing strong enough against a false religion is the True Religion of Catholicism. The cultures wars and the military wars are being lost for the lack of grace and holiness among Christians. http://www.uec.eu/12_September_1683.html
The Blessed Virgin Mary interceded at both the Siege of Vienna and the Battle of Lepanto, which is why we celebrate her victories on two days-September 12 and October 7th. She also had a victory on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Snows.
Secularists think they can win this war with the code of decency and humanitarianism. But those traits, even virtues, come from somewhere. These come with a heart centered on the Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Secularized Catholics, who no longer see right and wrong, but only grey, and who do not honor Mary Our Mother, also do not understand how we can defeat violence.
Prayer and action, prayer and fasting...how few do this now.