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