Cultural effects that can influence threat actors include religion, poverty, ethics and poor law enforcement are all influences that have affected ISIS followers. ISIS is growing faster than other similar terrorist organizations such as Al-Queda because of its use of cultural influences. The Islamic State began to rise when their countries were in time of war, a time when people lack leadership and law enforcement. This is also a time when there may be a lot of poverty as well. Through its use of social media the Islamic State has begun to spread like wildfire with recruiting followers from countries such as the US and UK as well. Many of their leaders are young and therefore very common with social media and know how to pick out other young
