Maliki’s politics gave rise to ISIS says Former Australian Prime Minister

(IraqiNews.com) Yesterday, the former Australian Prime Minister John Howard said in a lecture delivered by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, titled ‘ the current political and social developments in the Middle East’, that the terrorist organization of the so-called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) represents the most important challenge facing the Middle East region and the world at this stage.

Howard said in the lecture, which was attended by a large number of UAE officials and Australians: This challenge required the world’s cooperation to confront it, based on the values ​​and principles of the common humanity that rejects what was practiced by the organization ISIS of the brutal and barbaric acts, stating that one of the direct causes for the emergence of ISIS is the sectarian politics followed by the former Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.