Turning to the recommendation, right now, even though One Free World International supports the government decision of military air strike confrontation.... We do support it, because we believe that both of them, humanitarian aid and military intervention, have to be in balance. Without security, you're dropping aid on dead people. It's as simple as that.
Even though the military intervention is very important, the military air strikes will not solve the problem and will not end the ISIS problem. You cannot defeat ideology with bullets. The solution is education, education, education.
How will we be able to defeat ISIS? In my opinion, number one, we have to stop their funds. We have to affect their funds. We have to monitor and hold accountable the governments that support them financially—governments like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and especially Turkey—that become places for the foreign fighters to go to help with ISIS.
Second, we have to find reconciliation within the Iraqi government itself. Right now, according to our sources, when ISIS entered Iraq, they entered with 1,500 to 1,800 fighters. It's impossible, with this number, with just 1,500 soldiers from ISIS, that they can take 40% of the country, including the second-largest city, which is Mosul. The truth and the reality is that after 10 years from the Maliki regime, the Shias persecuted the Sunnis and other minorities so badly that they had to cooperate with ISIS in order to survive.
The Iraqi central government has to form a reconciliation within the minorities—Christian, Yezidi, Muslim, Sunni, Kaka'i, whoever the minority is—and they have to make a peace agreement and give them the right of self-governance.
In the end—that's now my eight minutes—we witnessed the Holocaust. We witnessed Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur. I pray that our Canadian conscience and our international conscience will not remain silent. In the absence of light, darkness prevails. We are the conscience of our world, and Canada is the temple of human rights.
I thank you for your time.