ISIS In America

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Have you ever wonder where Isis could be at or when their next attack could be? Well if you ever want to know the answers to those questions you have to ask the basic ones like What/ Who are they really; Where do they come from; Why are they doing such terrible stuff; How could they ever become like this; and Is ISIS in America. In this essay I will provide you with information that you need to know about ISIS. Isis stand for Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. It is made up of dissatisfied members and insurgents from other groups who have seized the opportunity to change the image of themselves into one group. “...they’re primarily disaffected Taliban members and insurgents from other groups who seized an opportunity to “rebrand” themselves as ISIS.” stated PBS.org. Most of the members that have come from another group that was ran by Mullah Omar. Mullah Omar was a Taliban leader who had kept the …show more content…
ISIS seized control of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, this summer (2015). But its power base is in Raqqa, eastern Syria, where ISIS is now in control of more than half of Syria’s oil assets. Not only that but along with a number of oil fields in Iraq. According to energy expert Luay al-Khateeb, he says, “The oil is finding its way to the black market and could be making ISIS up to $3 million each day.” There is around 1000 fighters in Afghanistan that like to call themselves a part of ISIS.
The two questions: How could they ever become like this and Why are they doing such terrible stuff, go hand in hand. All ISIS believers want to filter the world by man slaughtering ‘apostates’. “Isis believers want to ‘purify’ the world by killing ‘apostates’ – Muslims removed from Islam's.” (Waugh 2015). Apostates is a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle. In other words, it means that a person does not agree or want to be a part of the ISIS religion that they

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