The Islamic State is being crushed; its fighters are in retreat and the caliphate is collapsing.
However, the biggest losers are not the militants, who will fulfill their dreams of death or gather into the desert to regroup, but the millions of ordinary Sunnis whose lives have been ravaged by their murderous rampage, an article published by the Washington Post said.
The vast majority of the 4.2 million Iraqis who have been displaced from their homes by the Islamic State’s war are Sunnis.
And as the offensives were launched to capture Mosul, Iraq’s biggest Sunni city, and Raqqa, the group’s self-proclaimed capital in Syria, more Sunni towns and villages were demolished, and more Sunni livelihoods are being destroyed.
Most Sunnis played no part in the militants’ rise, but all are, however, paying a heavy price for the sake of those who did
No religious or ethnic group was left unscathed by the Islamic State’s sweep through Iraq and Syria, whether Shiites, Kurds, Christians and the tiny Yazidi minority; all have been victims of horrific atrocities.
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