actions in Mosul and Hetra. ISIS has proved to be a very complex organization that has also been able to garner the attention of many people around the globe. ISIS has also caused a very long and controversial debate on if the group is Islamic or not.
One of the largest arguments over ISIS is their claim of being Islamic. Various sources gave their interpretation of what it meant to be Islamic. In the first article “What ISIS really wants” by Graeme Wood, he presented that ISIS was in fact Islamic. Wood (2015) writes in his article saying: “The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic, Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.” (Para. 12) Wood’s stance of the subject elaborates that ISIS is Islamic, but in ISIS being Islamic it has its own interpretation of Islam and thus it even can clash with others of the Islamic faith. This is however only one view of the topic, there are many others that would state that ISIS is not Islamic. …show more content…
Starting with the President of the United States Barrack Obama, and His Secretary of State John Cary, as well as a plethora of Islamic group leaders in North America have expressed that though ISIS may call themselves Islamic, they are not to be related to the Islam religion as a whole, rather they are considered as non-Islamic or radicals of the faith. In an article featured on NPR written by Ton Gjelten (2015), he featured the comments of multiple Islamic group leaders in the U.S. A large consensus of the leaders was that ISIS 1) needs to be looked at as terrorists and be dealt with as such, and 2) that the actions of ISIS should not reflect entirely on Islam itself. Though all three of
One of the largest arguments over ISIS is their claim of being Islamic. Various sources gave their interpretation of what it meant to be Islamic. In the first article “What ISIS really wants” by Graeme Wood, he presented that ISIS was in fact Islamic. Wood (2015) writes in his article saying: “The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic, Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.” (Para. 12) Wood’s stance of the subject elaborates that ISIS is Islamic, but in ISIS being Islamic it has its own interpretation of Islam and thus it even can clash with others of the Islamic faith. This is however only one view of the topic, there are many others that would state that ISIS is not Islamic. …show more content…
Starting with the President of the United States Barrack Obama, and His Secretary of State John Cary, as well as a plethora of Islamic group leaders in North America have expressed that though ISIS may call themselves Islamic, they are not to be related to the Islam religion as a whole, rather they are considered as non-Islamic or radicals of the faith. In an article featured on NPR written by Ton Gjelten (2015), he featured the comments of multiple Islamic group leaders in the U.S. A large consensus of the leaders was that ISIS 1) needs to be looked at as terrorists and be dealt with as such, and 2) that the actions of ISIS should not reflect entirely on Islam itself. Though all three of