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The Pros And Cons Of ISIS

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ISIS: A Growing Threat The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is the world’s largest terrorist organization that controls both Syria and Iraq in different places. This is a very dangerous world that we live in and the threat that ISIS poses does not help matters any. This group has carried out well over sixty attacks in twenty countries besides Iraq and Syria totaling around 1,160 deaths and over 1,700 injured. The scary part is that all of these tragedies have only taken place since 2014. ISIS was formed in 1999, which leads me to the question: How much longer are we as a nation going to allow ISIS to continue, and how will they be stopped? I first heard about ISIS in 2013 when they really began to expand and conduct larger scale attacks on civilians. Hearing about and …show more content…

I could not believe how such a large group of people could be so vile and gruesome. I wondered what was so motivating for them to commit such acts. I later began to think about the psychology behind religion. Any extreme believer in a given religion is more than likely going to do about whatever it takes to carry out his/hers religious beliefs no matter how intense the act may be. Take Christianity for example. Most Christians try to please God by doing what the Bible instructs, and believe that he is the one and only God; and that is the way that everyone is supposed to live. Most religions are similar to this idea. Imagine being born into a society with the same belief system as ISIS. Would a person think that his/her actions are unjust? Probably not since the Quran and Allah, whom they believe in and worship, say that their actions are necessary and if they do not believe in Allah, then the consequence is their own life. This idea stems from

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ISIS was able to destabilize an entire region, control large territories, force neighboring countries to reevaluate immigration and foreign policy, branch into other parts of the globe, force recognition on the international stage, and rival other VEOs such as Al Qaeda; by using simple and hybrid methods of insurgency, Asymmetric warfare, and traditional forms of Islamic law and governance. The group’s activities, which keep the organization functioning, reside within the known safe havens of Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq. Seizing Raqqa will likely force ISIS to rebuild and reestablish a similar powerbase and eventually lead to dismantling senior leadership in Syria. Raqqa, the primary stronghold for ISIS operations in Syria, rests in the historically,

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The Islamic state, or ISIS is a militia movement with conquered territory in western Iraq and east Syria. Seizing multiple territories in the Iraq’s heartland and having amounts of success has drawn in more foreign recruits to them, raising concern in the west. Moreover, this has led the United States to send in the air campaigns to try and roll back the Islamic state advancements. Now, as of November fifteenth, 2015, ISIS has taken upon itself to drop multiple bombs in Paris, France and both France and the United States want to retaliate back.

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Have you ever had the fear that you might get blown up by a roadside bomb or that someone walking down the street might have a bomb strapped to there chest? Well if us as americans don't do everything we can to destroy ISIS then they might just bring the fight to our homeland. The Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a very dangerous and very capable terrorist group. They are considers the most dangerous group in the world today. They killed over 6,000 people last year and are not slowing down.

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During World War II, the world saw Hitler torture and kill millions upon millions of Jews, during this time Hitler has gained land and grew stronger. Without the United States helping to fight Hitler would have probably be successful in committing genocide upon all of the Jews and take over most of Europe. currently there is a new group of extremist killing of people who do not share the same beliefs, this extremist group is called ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIS was led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed currently. Just like Hitler invaded cities and towns of innocent people, dragging them out of their houses and mercilessly executing them, ISIS has done the same thing.

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The people involved in ISIS are over 30,000 Islamic terrorists that believe everyone has to follow their religion. There are many countries fighting ISIS right now, but only nine countries (USA, Canada, France, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Australia) are involved in airstrikes against ISIS. These countries are trying to weaken them militarily and financially. The first airstrikes were in August 8, 2014, and since then, more than 8000 airstrikes have hit Iraq and Syria. Many lives have been lost because of ISIS.

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