UN General Assembly
2014

Islam rejects such crimes, which are inconsistent with Islam’s moderate approach and principles of peaceful coexistence among all peoples. As the international community must be aware, besides the increased incidence of terrorist and extremist acts in our region, most notably those perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), the threats posed by those terrorist and extremist groups are expanding beyond our region to threaten the rest of the civilized world. Various countries in the region, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya and the States of the African Sahel, are suffering at the hands of terrorist takfiri groups, which have exploited unstable conditions in those countries to create an environment that they believe will guarantee them steady funding, logistical support, training and recruitment. Those extremist and terrorist organizations promote obscurantism, exclusivity and an illicit ideology, and they perpetrate brutal acts to impose their control and increase their influence in order to achieve their goals. The current collective action against the threat of ISIS and other terrorist groups reflects the international community’s shared