ISIS has become more and more dangerous as the years go by. One reason why they have been so dangerous is because how quickly they gained recruits. ISIS began many years ago, but not until the past three years have they started to grow rapidly. Since they have started to grow so rapidly more and more terrorist attacks have happening and being credited to them. Some attacks may have been planned by the top leaders of ISIS, while others could have been carried out by individuals in support of ISIS. I believe that ISIS needs to be defeated quickly but carefully. Whether the leaders are defeated or the entire Islamic state is defeated I think it need to happen soon. ISIS is so dangerous because of their ability to grow, how they attack, and the difficulties the rest of the world face in …show more content…
Some of the ISIS members were once part of Al- Qaeda, but most are recruits. “But the ISIS of 2014 is reborn out of Sunni fears, and by the people the U.S. couldn’t manage to kill during the war — described to me as ‘a collection of killers very good at surviving’: the most battle-hardened al-Qaeda militants, a few embittered tribesmen, and some remnants of Saddam's Baathist military hoping to regain power” (McCants). Members of ISIS have been part of terrorist groups before so they know how to plan attacks and recruit new members. They have an effective recruitment processes and that’s why they have been able to grow so quickly. Some of the recruitment happens on social media pages but it has been changing to more word of mouth style. “A significant degree of recruitment currently occurs through friends and family in Syria, who are also paid on the basis of the number of persons they recruit and on whether the recruits subsequently marry” (Winsor). As more people start to support ISIS the more people they can recruit. When a recruiter gains one person’s support that person bring in another person and that allows ISIS to grow
ISIS has shown that they are one of the biggest terror threats in the world (CNN). People even are starting comparing ISIS to the Nazis from World War II(Luckert). Nazis and ISIS are very similar, but they are also very different. The similarities are shocking to see that history could possibly repeat itself and people still haven’t learned from the Nazis’ time. The Nazis exterminated more than six million innocent civilians. If no one stops ISIS, who knows what they will be able to accomplish.
This is why societies are created, because in order to reach their goals, they need more people that have the same beliefs and determination as they do. For example, in the beginning of Lord of the Flies when Ralph and Piggy find out that they have been stranded on an island, they realize that they have to come up with jobs that certain people will have to take over. For instance, Jack is assigned to have a group of hunters along with his choir boys. They were to acquire meat for all the boys on the island. When Jack realizes it would be easier if they had more people to help, he convinces more of the boys to join his tribe with the excuse that it was for the beast which they all feared, apart from the fact that meat was a necessity for them to survive. Not everyone was adequate for the job, only a certain amount of boys qualified for the job of a hunter. When you want to join something you have to have the characteristics that are needed. The same thing goes for ISIS they need to recruit people to make their society bigger and more successful even though the things that they do may be harmful. The only way that you can get into the group ISIS is if you have the same beliefs as them, other than that, there's no possible way that you will be included in their exclusive
It notes that ISIS is the worlds deadliest political party, heavily associated with radical Islamics. However, it points out that we must be careful to not confuse this small minority of ultra-violent muslims with the rest of the over one billion muslims worldwide today. A 2003 study by Steven Fish at California Berkeley found that between 1994-2007, annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged 2.4 per 100,000 people, or a third of the rate for the non-Muslim world. Clearly, Islam and death do not directly coincide, so why are groups like ISIS such a huge problem today? Fish pointed out that Islamic radicals were responsible for 70 percent of deaths from “high-causality terrorist bombings” around the world from 1994-2008. This points out that at least in modern times, the perpetrators of extreme terrorist bombings are predominately Muslim, thus explaining why groups such as ISIS are such a problem today. ISIS uses very narrow and extreme interpretations of medieval Islam that greatly influences its killings and how they kill, often very gruesomely. It is very important when reading these two sources to remember that Juergensmeyer is almost exclusively addressing radical Islamics, reading just his article leaves one with the feeling that all Muslims are radicals, which this article by Mack clearly shows is not the case. However,
On September 11, 2001 the world stopped for a moment as two planes flew into the white house. The Pentagon was also hit that day, and a hero saved a plane that was supposed to hit the White House. Americans all over the country were in shock, some knew their loved ones were in the Twin Towers, and hoped that some could make it out alive. Some did, many didn’t, so many precious lives were taken away from innocent humans who thought it was just going to be a normal day at the office. Children are growing up without fathers and mothers, who they will never meet. Whoever did this, needs to be put away, or killed. The man who planned it, Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011, 10 years after the terror attacks on the World Trade center that killed many Americans, innocent Americans. Osama bin Laden’s killing was just, and he deserved what he got, there is no doubt in my mind he got what he deserved.
ISIS started as a break away group of al-Qaeda, one of the most terrible Islamic groups in the world. The stated goal of ISIS is to start a worldwide Islamic caliphate. The areas it controls are ruled under strict
Over the past century, terrorism has advanced from random killings to enormous plans for terrorist groups. To understand terrorism, you must first define it. Terrorism as we all know it is hard to define and understand, and has many different definitions as it is used widely. The word "terrorism" stems from the word "terror", which means to instill fear in. People become terrorists when they take the actions towards instilling fear and terror upon people to prove a certain point or agenda.
This paper examines the implications the media has on Muslims since 9/11. It identifies specific ways in which the media has utilized specific terminology, misrepresented images of Muslims, and misguided assumptions that have been placed on the general public since 9/11. This paper analyzes how Muslims have been targeted in mainstream media in a number of ways. Furthermore, it focuses on the theory behind agenda setting and why it pertains to this topic. It provides detailed summaries of articles and addresses the following questions: (1) How did the media misrepresent Islam and Muslims? (2) Why viewers are more inclined to trusting media? (3) What is the true identity of Muslims in America?
Some of us might remember how beautiful it was this day, how blue and clear the sky was. September 11, 2001 is not just a regular day anymore it marks the day terrorists attacked, not only New York but also America. Much like Pearl Harbor this is the day we were taken off guard and the day we struck back and went to war. With everything stripped away from us and no sense of what was going on, a country that was just fine on September 10, 2011 was now broken, on such a beautiful day such terror occurred. According to The Best American Magazine Writing in the article “Experts from the Encyclopedia of 9/11” there is a quote that reads, “Many of us remember going to work that week, searching for an appropriate journalistic response to a world that was changing in ways we couldn’t yet see.”(page 107) When our country was expecting failure and loss of control, we pulled together as a nation and started picking up the pieces from this tragedy that tore us apart this day. After reading this article I asked myself, how could anyone do such a horrible thing? Why would anyone want to give the...
Across the world there are countless religions, new and old, each having their own unique traditions and laws that believers abide by. As defined by World History, Sharia, the Arabic word meaning “the path” or “the way”, alludes to traditional Islamic law. (Ellis, Esler, and Beers, 255) Sharia originates within the Koran, the holy book of Islam, which Muslims consider the unaltered word of God. Along with the Koran, Sharia is derived from the teachings and examples set by the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, who Muslims view as the perfect man of faith. Muslims believe that God revealed his true conviction to Muhammad, who in turn was to spread the commands of God through the Koran. Between Muhammad’s death in the seventh century and leading up to the tenth century, many Islamic scholars worked to understand Sharia in its entirety, and apply it to the rapidly expanding Muslim Empire of the time (Dunn, 57). Sharia played a key role in uniting the Islamic Empire by serving as the precedent which dictated laws concerning both private and public behavior.
9/11 was one of the darkest days in America, but some say the government could have been part of these attacks. For many years people have debated about the 9/11 cover up. This theory cannot explain why the government would do this. Once people understand why the 9/11 cover up is fake, they will begin to see the answer to their problem, could the government have done this? This conspiracy theory is wrong because, terrorists admitted to the attacks, so many people died, and there's no evidence against the government.
In support of my argument on terrorist I will be referring to the terrorism groups Al-Qaeda and its off shoot Isis. These terrorism groups are broad base rogue militant army’s fuelled by hatred and violence on the western
What if the Oklahoma City Bombing was not planned by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols? It was one of the biggest domestic terrorist attacks in America. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were helped by middle eastern terrorist groups to commit the Oklahoma City Bombing.
On the morning of 7 January 2015, Cherif and Said Kouachi killed 12 people and injured 11 others during their attack on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The Charlie Hebdo shooting, which was directed by Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda, has brought up pertinent questions with regard to the freedoms of expression within the French society. France, being a society staunchly undergirded by secular views, has seen irreverent magazines like Charlie Hebdo blaspheming certain religions without any government response. However, after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, French authorities aggressively enforced laws against supporting or justifying terrorism, arresting those who praised the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Some argue that therein lies a double standard as the government is not consistently secular – nothing is done to prevent Charlie Hebdo’s religiously offensive publications, while arrests are carried out when people support terrorism towards a religiously offensive magazine.
As many of you heard back in January 2015, a number of people were attacked by terrorists because of the misunderstanding of freedom of speech. Charlie Hebdo, a satirical cartoon magazine, created a cartoon that offended the Islamic religion. For many decades cartoons just like these, but with different content, were published and no one had a problem with it. The guest on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show, Bill Maher, mentioned being a liberal, and 100% for freedom of speech. Being a liberal means that you are open to new ideas, and changes.
Fahad Alzahrani William Wenaus English 100 Aug 8th , 2017 James Joyce's Short Story "Araby" The story Araby has numerous statements that are both puzzling and astonishing to the reader. Such statements invoke multiple questions on the mind of a person as he or she tries to find the reason behind them. Nevertheless, the narrator’s concluding expression appears to give much insight into his mind and resolutions. The statement "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity, and my eyes burned with anguish and anger (Joyce 21)" prompts the reader to see the narrator from a different perspective.