It would be greatly appreciated if Islam could accept a separation from the state and from politics. That would be great, but unfortunately, you don't see that anywhere in the Muslim world, especially in the Middle East.
I was in the city of Dohuk in December of 2014, and I heard a mullah on a loudspeaker saying that ISIS is doing the right thing in killing the infidels. I contacted one of the UN officials in Baghdad and said that this was what was happening. The Yazidis were sleeping in the streets in the middle of winter. I think you saw my picture under the bridges. If the mosque is telling this to its people, what are you going to do? They didn't do anything.
Of course, if they could separate the church from the state, that would be greatly appreciated. Probably we would be able to survive together.
Saddam was a dictator but under his regime the life of Yazidis, Assyrians, Christians, Sabians, and Baha'is was much better than today, which now they call a democratic Iraq. Under Saddam no religious people could give a fatwa or permission to kill Yazidis or Christians.
If the west thinks they are going to be able to do this in Iraq and Syria or in other places, like Egypt for example, where many different ethnic groups live, or in Iran with, for example, the Zoroastrians, Yazidis, and Assyrians, or in Turkey, that would be great, but I don't see that in the future because they have not been able to do that for the last 1,400 years. I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.
For a short-term solution, Canada could be the leading force to save the Yazidis and Christians and then also work for the long-term solution.