Sami Aronson

Mrs. Lucarelli
Honors Comparative Civilizations
9 November 2015

greater than the United Kingdom. Isis is

ISIS in the Middle East

BBC.com, Jihadists see violent struggle

a group of Jihadists. As stated by

Who is ISIS?

as necessary to

Isis is a

eradicate

Middle

obstacles to

Eastern

restoring God's

terrorist group

rule on Earth

made up of

and defending

Sunni Muslims. It stands for the Islamic

the Muslim community, or umma,

State or Iraq and Syria. Isis is in control

against infidels and apostates. They

or the Northern part of Syria and the

take Islamists to another level.

North Eastern sector of Iraq. Isiss main

What is the goal of ISIS?

goal is to create a caliphate, an Islamic

The goal of Isis is create a

State. Isis was created in 1999; another

Caliphate. A Caliphate is an Islamic state

name for it is ISIL, The Islamic State of

and once a Caliph has been declared

Iraq and the Levant. This is referring

other Muslims are supposed to flee to it.

Syria to a historical term that includes

The inflow of Muslims worldwide that

the eastern Mediterranean area. Abu

have already joined this Caliphate is

Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader

overwhelming and is still growing.

since May 2010. He declared that he is

About 3,00 new jihadists have recently

the Caliph of the Islamic state. Isis has

joined Isis after Baghdadis declaration.

grown so that now they occupy land

As an effect of Syrias civil war, Isis has

taken hold of many Syrian cities as

year of US military operations have not

training camps for their new recruits.

begun to do either. The US hasnt

Within all the chaos in Syria Isis is

improved the situation. The US has

remaining stable and advantage of this

gotten involved though; Isis has reached

chaos. Isis has also taken over Iraqs

the United States. By the use of the

second largest city, Mosul. They caught

Internet and crypted messages Isis is

the Iraqi army of guard. Their reign is

slowly gaining followers here n

progressing and their land is growing.

America. For example stated by

How are they achieving their goal?

CNN.com, Using social media as well

Isis is using power and military

as encrypted online communications

tactics to conquer the

beyond the reach

land they take over. They

of law

use weapons to conquer

enforcement

and social media to

surveillance, the

educate. Only 5% of

terror organization

Saudis support Isis and

is increasingly

only 3% of Egyptians. An interesting

reaching new sympathizers and

poll suggests that 81% of Syrians believe

encouraging attacks such as the one

that the US created Isis. As stated by

foiled in Boston, officials said.

wsws.org, In reality, while claiming to

American law agencies cant track Isiss

be engaged in a war to, in President

communication and decode their

Barack Obamas words, degrade and

messages. About thousands of followers

ultimately destroy ISIS, over one full

of Isis are rapidly growing in the US.

The picture above is an accurate

spread the word and attract people to

representation of Isis. They murder

join their terrorist group.

people and put it on the Internet to