To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 24 January (HL Deb, col 553) in which she agreed with remarks attributed to the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury that it is not helpful to claim that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, but then asserted that Daesh has nothing to do with Islam, what is their position.
Answered on
9 February 2017
Daesh claim their actions in the name of Islam, but this is a twisted interpretation of a faith which holds justice, tolerance and inclusion among its core values.
Daesh is self-evidently unrepresentative of the estimated 1.6 billion Muslims globally, and it is precisely because Daesh claims to be acting in the name of Islam that the numerous and vocal denunciations of the group by Muslims and Islamic organisations have resonated so powerfully. We must not tarnish the overwhelmingly peaceful majority with the virulent, sick ideology of a twisted few.