TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - David Cameron has warned that if the Islamic State (ISIS) is not urgently defeated, it will bring its "poisonous" terrorism to the streets of Britain. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the prime minister said a "firm security response" is needed to defeat the jihadist militants, who have created an expanding caliphate in the heart of Iraq and parts of Syria.
Unless these "warped and barbaric" extremists are dealt with, he wrote, they will create a "terrorist state" on the shores of the Mediterranean.
The Islamic State cannot simply be removed by air strikes alone, he continued, but requires military action to go after the terrorists themselves. The government must also take uncompromising action against extremists in Britain trying to recruit fighters for jihad abroad.
"If we do not act to stem the onslaught of this exceptionally dangerous terrorist movement, it will only grow stronger until it can target us on the streets of Britain," he wrote. "We already know that it has the murderous intent."
Cameron also revealed that he is considering sending body armour and specialist counter-explosive equipment to the Kurds in Iraq, and that Britain will use next month's Nato summit in Wales to press for more action in the United Nations to "help rally support across the international community" for the Kurdish people.
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