Just until two years ago, ISIS had been a subsided group of al-Qaeda. They are now becoming rivals of al-Qaeda. ISIS is a very specific Islamic group that wants to use force and military power to change the beliefs of the Middle East. They use views of pure religion to raise large amounts of money from donors and use that money to recruit soldiers from all over the world to help Islam. ISIS is a mafia-like group that also raises money from the loots they do. They also run an oil service which gives them great deals of money as well.The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham is a very disciplined and hardworking group of people who plan their moves with extreme …show more content…
ISIS is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.They can trace its start all the way back to 2002. This is when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi founded a jihadi organization called Tawhid wal-Jihad up in the northern part of Iraq. Zarqawi had been associated with al-Qaeda while he was in Afghanistan around the late '90s, but was not a member of the group. He actually disagreed with lethal tactic of focusing on the West as opposed to the rulers in the Islamic world. Shortly after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Zarqawi's organization became more active and actually affiliated itself to al-Qaeda in 2004. They soon became al-Qaeda in Iraq. Zarqawi's organization had started recruiting and recovering resources for being part of a worldwide Jihadist …show more content…
Devotion, Territory, the Apocalypse, the fight, and Dissuasion. These five things can get specific and mean a wide range of things.
First we will start with Devotion. ISIS is pushing towards a jihadist religion. This can mean many things. In this case it means a religious worship towards the Jihadi religion ISIS is pushing for. Jihadi is a religious movement towards a dangerous and armed religion of Islam. ISIS has made a big move in the recent past with this. They have control of over eight-million people now! That is crazy! Doing this gives them more power because in an armed group, the more people, the better off you are.
In November of 2014, ISIS released a video that traced its beginning to Osama bin Laden. This video had brought up Zarqawi which followed by having two other small group leaders as being a part of the caliphate. The division between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State has been progressing over the years and has taken a