A brother asked me what our position should be regarding Turkey allowing the anti-Da’esh alliance to use Turkish airbases “to kill our brothers in Syria”?
Obviously, it is a loaded question.
The answer to this question is going to depend almost entirely on your view of Da’esh.
If you view them as the one fighting group in Syria that is waging war against almost every faction of the Mujahideen who are trying to topple Bashar al-Assad; if you view them as a group which has shed more Muslim blood than anyone else in Syria except Assad himself; if you view them as a group whose terrorist tactics around the world have put Muslims everywhere at risk; if you view them as a group that grotesquely violated the sanctity of Madinah; if you view them as ignorant, radical extremist fanatics dedicated to spreading violence and chaos in the Muslim world; if you view them as a group whose strategy and tactics serve no one’s interests except America and Israel; in other words, if you view Da’esh the way the overwhelming majority of Muslims view them, and the way they are viewed by those who have defected from them, your answer to this question will be very different than if you view them as heroes.