Isis's Rise To Power

ISIS is a terrorist group that originated from Al Qaeda in 2004. This group was an ally to Osama Bin Laden’s notorious Al Qaeda; “meaning they both were radical anti-Western militant groups devoted to establishing independent Islamic state in the region” (Thompson, 2015). The differences with ISIS and Osama’s terrorist group is that ISIS has proved to be more brutal and more effective at controlling the territory it has seized. With ISIS being the strongest current terrorist organization the question has been proposed; how will the world defeat this “group”? How has it affected the world? How will the end of this “organization” affect the world, if there ever will be an end? In order for ISIS to be destroyed all of these questions must be

From the time when the United States invaded Iraq eleven years ago, a noxious insurgence aeriated at numerous customs of conflict which has attested irrepressible, malleable, and tenacious strive to convey on hostility. A nation of Saddam and al-Zarqawi, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) reins a third of conjointly Syria and Iraq in its charisma avowed bravura of war. Around the beginning of 2010, U.S. and Iraqi forces destroyed two topmost al-Qaeda and Iraq frontrunners; which then sanctioned Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to become the spearhead of an assemblage destabilized by a strenuous operation directed at culminating a Sunni uprising in the country (CNN, 2015). By virtually all provision, Iraq is entangled in civil war. In addition, ISIS has engrossed nearly twelve thousand supporters from overseas already and at least three thousand devotees are from the West (Feroli & Dulin, 2013).

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, commonly known as ISIS, has frightened the whole world by committing attacks in the Middle East, Paris, and San Bernardino, California. ISIS claims to be the legitimate ruler of all Muslims and it operates the Muslim world. ISIS was able to expand as the result of local groups conflicts with Western interests. Daniel Byman declares that local groups are attracted to ISIS for genuine conviction. Particularly, young men believe that ISIS is the defender and avenger of Sunnis worldwide. On the other hand, some groups join ISIS for accessibility to financial and technical aid. While , ISIS grows beyond Iraq and Syria, religious intolerance is created. The group delivers its religious beliefs by barbarian acts, such as beheading and rape to intimidate their enemies and obtain supporters.

The PBS documentary, “The Rise of Isis,” shows a look at how the pulling of troops and a corrupt government led to the rise of the terrorist organization known as Isis. In 2011, the Obama administration pulled U.S. troops from the middle east and Iraq was presented as country ready to govern itself. The Iraqi Prime Minister, Maliki, came to the United States to declare all of this on television. A government official features on the documentary said Obama would regret this. While in the U.S. Maliki received a phone call from Iraq stating that his vice president’s guards were planning an assignation attempt, in response Maliki ordered his arrest. Vice President of Iraq, Hashemi denies all claims of this. However, he does claim that many of his

The beginnings of ISIS,a Sunni jihadist group,can be traced back to 1999, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian jihadist, started the group . In 2010, after ISIS’s second leader was assassinated, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,a former scholar of Islamic studies and a US war prisoner back in 2004,took over and got the group back on track. He replenished their partially-killed-off leadership with dozens of Saddam’s old Ba’athist military personnel, who brought key experience to the group. Then in 2011, when the Syrian Civil War broke out, ISIS joined in as a rebel force,which helped to train and battle-harden the group. ISIS’s behavior in Syria was so brutal and severe that they even started creeping out the other groups, including al-Qaeda, who finally had a tantrum in early 2014 and cut all ties with ISIS. The ISIS, like all terrorist organizations, arose out of systems of discontent that made extremist ideology appealing. The extremist ideology of ISIS is an aberration of Islam marked by radical apocalyptic thought. The ISIS’s position is antithetical to Shia Islam, which believes that just as a prophet is appointed by God alone, only God has the prerogative to appoint the successor to his prophet (the caliphate).

ISIS is identified as a Salafi extremist group, which refers to a very conservative outlook on the Islamic religion. With these abhorrent views of non-Muslims, many of the members have resorted to domestic violence, including suicide bombings and other forms of provoking fear in the innocent. Countries such as Iraq and Syria have made multiple attempts to combat ISIS, but they are currently deemed too powerful to be seized from power. A number of factors contribute to the horrific actions that are executed by the Islamic State, such as the disarmament of Saddam Hussein’s military back in the early 2000’s. Once the former Iraqi soldiers realized that they could not fight for their country, they transitioned into ISIS fighters and began to advocate for a much different cause- one that would affect millions of lives all over the

Throughout history, the Middle East has encountered many obstacles that are still present today. Terrorism is a huge obstacle that has not yet been overcome. In previous years, the United States saw Al Qaeda as the main face of terrorism. Today, that is not the case. Formally established in 2013, the most prominent terrorist group today is ISIS also known as the Islamic State and the Levant (Pierpaoli). ISIS is a Salafist Muslim organization that has declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria and imposes a strict interpretation of Islam. According to the U.S. secretary of defense, it is “beyond anything we have seen.” Led by Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, it has been seen as the most potent military force in the nation (Morgenstern). Similar to the group

Today, one of the biggest issues facing the United States as well as the rest of the world is the Sunni-militant group which goes by the name of “ISIS,” or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It has been the topic for major discussion for the past three years, with many leaders of major countries and nations trying to figure out how to defeat them. ISIS is a powerful force and has been for several years and many countries including the United States are trying to figure out how to stop them.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, also known as Islamic State in Iran and the Levant, ISIL, is a terror group formed by the remaining members of al Qadea (AQI) after their down fall. ISIS aims to create a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, and expand globally. Their methods to do so are by any means of spreading terror to innocent people by mass shootings, beheadings, and explosions. ISIS although a political driven terror group, claims to found their practice and ideology from Islam one of the three major world religions among Christianity and Judaism. However, Islamic teachings and beliefs contradict the practice, methodology and ideology of ISIS. In the following paper, I will be discussing the formation of the organization of ISIS, their

Founded as the Islamic state of Iraq, ISIS has grown to power overtime as a nation through the use hegemonic masculinity. A splinter group of Al Qaeda, “ISIS aimed to unite one Islamic state under a dictator-like Muslim leader called a caliphate” (CNN). Through the use of social media and large global terrorist attacks, ISIS has gained power and new recruits. Over the past ten years the expansion of the nation-state has increased in size and power. The formation and development of the nation-state of ISIS is greatly influenced by hegemonic masculinity. The nation-state of ISIS if formed by social, political, and economic settings. These settings are shaped and affect by western hegemonic ideas of masculinity.

(U) “Al-Qaeda is the complex international Islamist terrorist network made of regional affiliate organizations and clandestine cells with varying degrees of communication.“ 1 Their ultimate goal is to establish its version of Islamic rule across all Muslim territory.They continually adopts new patterns of operations in response to global counter-terrorism effort.

In two years Isis has been the cause for over 170,000 people’s death, making it today the world’s biggest terrorist group. Isis was first created in Iraq and is now slowly growing too many other countries in the world. This group is now one the biggest problems that the world faces today. Isis stands for Islamic state in Iraq and Syria. Members of Isis were first a part of al-Qaeda, then in 2013 became its own group. This paper will answer: How was Isis formed, and why is it the way it is today?

successful to stay in the news as they have displayed an ever increasing frequency of attacks and violence for the purpose of spreading their ideology. This group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) (and an extension – Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – ISIL), is a militant terrorist organization perpetrating violence onto Muslims and non-Muslims alike in order to secure the strict Sharia law through a Sunni Caliphate, not by winning over their hearts and minds, but rather by inducing through a state of fear (BBC). Although much of the Middle East region is heavily populated by Muslims, ISIS’s violent means of establishing a state of Islam

As late as 2012 during the Sunni protests, many protestors distanced themselves from ISIS. According to Abu Risha, they have been fighting Al Qaeda in Anbar for the past six months, but need Americas support. ISIS military campaign was devoted to the assassinations of the Sunni leaders that fought against them, so they could eliminate the leaders who could continue to rally Iraqi Sunnis against ISIS. As a result, the mainstream Sunni nationalist and ISIS agendas are greatly divided, which will soon manifest itself into greater conflict as it currently does in Syria. ISIS is as strong as it has ever been with thousands of jihadists freed from Iraq’s jails, half a billion dollars looted from Mosul’s banks, and is flushed with international support and recruits, which makes the Sunni-on-Sunni struggle in ISIS held territory harder to uproot terrorist organizations in the territory it has acquired without outside assistance and organization. This struggle will become a sectarian war as according to Ardolino and Roggio, without quick political accommodation and direct Western intervention, the conflict could slip into “the sectarian ghettoization and murder that characterized the worst years of the Iraq War.” (Ardolino; Roggio) This sectarian divide is inflamed by Iranian

ISIS, or Daesh, is an Islamic terrorist organization that spawned from a marriage between disgruntled rebels in Syria and Iraq, and a splinter group from the weakened terrorist group, Al Qaeda. Formerly known as AQI or (Al Qaeda in Iraq), ISIS went through multiple stages of development before becoming what it is today. In this paper, I will be exploring only two of the many causes of ISIS' rise: The Arab spring's effect of paving the way for ISIS, and the convoluted US politics that allowed, and eventually helped to create ISIS itself.