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ISIS failed to attract young Indians into its fold: Rijiju
Union minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday that ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) was trying to capture young minds around the world but failed to attract Indians into its fold
Union minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju said on Saturday that ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) was trying to capture young minds around the world but failed to attract Indians into its fold.
Speaking at the valedictory session of the three-day International Conference on Counter Terrorism, 2015 here, Rijiju said terrorism now is not the problem of any one country but has spread to different parts of the world.
He said the civil society needs to be up in arms against the ISIS terror. He further said parents and the Indian society have been able to prevent young people from joining such terror groups.
Now, a global problem, terrorism poses a challenge to mankind and the world needs to come together to fight it.
“We need a global strategy to counter terrorism. “It should be seen as a global problem. The way the entire world is working together for climate change, in the same way the world should work to counter terrorism,” Rijiju said.
The minister said terrorists use cyberspace for attacks, tomorrow they might use chemical weapons. “At some places these terrorists can take help of simple stone pelting and we have to accept that there is not enough preparation at the global level to deal with such situations.”
The three-day conference saw sessions on terrorism and the challenges it presents. Several security and counter-terrorism experts attended the conference.
The Sardar Patel University of Police Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur and the India Foundation meet jointly organised the meet.
