Jordan queen says anti-IS fight key to saving Islam
"Our silence is the greatest gift" for IS, which has seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria, she told participants at a media summit in Abu Dhabi.
"We are complicit in their success," added the queen, whose Hashemite kingdom has joined the US-led air campaign against IS in Syria along with Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
"The coalition must be broader... It's the fight for the future of the Middle East and Islam," she said. "It's a fight that we have to win."
Analysts have warned of the dangers for Jordan from its participation in the campaign against IS, an extremist group that has committed widespread atrocities in areas under its control.
Amman is grappling with its own extremists, some of whom have joined fighters in Iraq and Syria.
The United States has also launched bombing raids against IS in Iraq with the involvement of European allies.
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Now this region will finance 50% of world's armed industry, Arabs were proud to be Arab and now when they know they're heading into a black hole they're talking about Islam.
what she is saying is to save their dictatorship and monarchy.
@unbelievable mate.. if the religion was violent as you claim.. then all of india and rest of the world would have been dead by now.. i think you keep foregetting that muslims do reside in west in large number.... so get your head out of gutter..
“Our silence is the greatest gift” . I think she understand - sees the Elephant in the Room. Few Muslims seems to appreciate that Islam is a minority religion and that that the other 75 percent of the planet is getting fed up with a religion that they view as increasingly violent/intolerant and apparently unwilling or unable to tackle the growing extremism.