TORFAEN MP Paul Murphy surely must be competing for the Hypocrite of the Year award when he states, “We must do more to investigate what causes radicalisation and what we can do to stop people going to fight with IS (Isis)”.

One of the causes of radicalisation is Muslims witnessing and experiencing the slaughter by western armed forces or western based forces of men, women and children in wars waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine etc!

Did Mr Murphy not fully support the illegal invasion and war on Iraq?

As for IS (Isis), wasn’t this rather murderous and inhuman organisation trained by the SAS and US Special Forces?

The beheadings of journalists and others by IS were indeed horrific and barbaric, but so are the beheadings carried out in the feudal backwater of Saudi Arabia. Does Mr Murphy MP criticise the Saudi Arabian Ggovernment?

As for his support of Nato MP’s support for Nato, I wonder if, in his next Argus article, Mr Murphy could explain the role of Gladio [the ‘stay-behind’ organisation operated by Nato during the Cold War]?

Terry Banfield, Cardigan Crescent, Cwmbran