ISIS Weapons Pros And Cons

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a threat to the United States of America. There have been many lives lost at the hands of ISIS fighters and victimization done to women. Neutralizing the threat is a challenging task but there are different approaches psychological and intelligence are two options to begin with.

To date, ISIL has killed minorities, forced minorities to flee, raped women, and killed American, Japanese and British citizens. In addition to this, one of the shooters from the attack in Paris January 2015 has claimed to be part of ISIS. As of June 23, 2015 ISIS was also reported to be giving females away as sex slaves to the fighters who have “mastered the Koran” (FOX News, 2015). The Irish Republican Army (IRA)

It was not until recently that al-Qaeda and ISIS split. Al-Qaeda has been a threat to the United States since the 1990’s and after September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda was being targeted by the United States. Any group affiliated with al-Qaeda should always be considered a threat to the United States. The Australian Government has ISIS listed as a terrorist group; “Division 102 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 provides that for an organization to be listed as a terrorist organization, the Attorney-General must be satisfied on reasonable grounds that the organization: is directly or indirectly engaged in, preparing, planning, or assisting in or fostering the doing of a terrorist act (whether or not a terrorist act has occurred or will occur); or advocates the doing of a terrorist act (whether or not a terrorist has occurred or will occur)” (Australian Government). Through constant threats of attacking on United States soil and planning the killing of American citizens overseas they are fulfilling the directly/indirectly stage of the definition. Also, with the possibility of a lone wolf becoming grater, they are succeeding in advocating a terrorist act. ISIS is a threat to the United States of

“…conformity, obedience, groupthink and the influence exerted by a minority might (eventually) lead to a change in direction for the group, and also contribute to one member’s gradual disillusionment with the movement:…” (Horgan, 2014). Horgan proposes the idea of disengagement, which involves infiltrating before naïve men and women even get involved. Giving them another group to seek approval through instead of reaching out for approval through a terrorist organization. This would mean getting to the adolescent men before they join ISIS and give them another group to seek