Qaeda And Isis Comparison

Al Qaeda Central and the Islamic State demonstrate their differences in a multitude of ways, ranging from the caliphate to the organizations decline. Both organizations are different from each other in their rise, al Qaeda Central rose under the tutelage of traditionalist leaders after the USSR invasion of Afghanistan later to fall to ISIS who, rose as al Qaeda’s traditional message falls out of the two extreme ideologies that will not fall anytime soon. The organizational difference occurs with the system that both al Qaeda and ISIS use; bureaucracy, where the organization is managed by officials. Under the AQC structural bureaucracy you can find explicit and clear leadership, allowing for a more centralized core for expanding membership through

The goal for AQC was to re-establish control over regions that the ‘west’ had invaded (Stern 108), which in turn regain their identity back through the thought that the idealized goal would be achievable. Al Qaeda’s vision was “for the restoration of the Islamic caliphate [is] framed squarely in the long term.” (Stern 192). Al Qaeda’s theme of “defending ones identity against aggression” (Stern 192) depicting that they were the trying to regain land that was taken from them by the ‘west’, ISIS’s goal however, was to create a utopian society for the marginalized groups thus establishing the caliphate over the region. With the flood of propaganda and the proclamation that ISIS had “reestablished the ‘caliphate’ and renamed itself simply ‘The Islamic State’,” (Stern 116) under the caliphate ISIS wanted to establish a reigning system, through the recruitment of young Islamist-Westerns to create their ideal utopian. The difference between both organizations is a comparable one. They both want to reestablish a caliphate in a sense, AQC wanted the control over the land back while ISIS wanted the recognition as a state. With these two goals based around the caliphate allow for the following differences to

The way both organization went on gaining recruits was based off the messages they gave. AQC pitched to its recruits “doing the right thing” (Stern 194), while ISIS wants to do more than convince people to join the organization through the stimulation of its propaganda and recruiting materials. ISIS’s materials ranged from “scenes of graphic violence to pastoral visions of a utopian society that seems to thrive,” (Stern 194). The extremist messages that ISIS sent held themes of purification through the acts of revenge, violence and showing of strength. The messages sent by both groups attracted recruits, for ISIS however, the model of implementing the future now (Stern 195), attracted record number of foreign fighters. Those who were moved by the message but couldn’t join acted out in their states like Nolan Alton who beheaded and stabbed his old coworkers in Oklahoma, ale Thompson who attacked New York City police or the man in California who had worn a hat saying “We Love ISIS” into a mall (Stern 195-196). The recruiting tools used by al Qaeda derived from scholarly lecture and the enlightened theories intended to radicalize the moderate individuals while ISIS targeted every day men through the exploitation of the technology available with the use of social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram to report from the