ISIS: Terrorist Organization

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ISIS is a terrorist organization seeking to create its own state, governed by a warped and corrupted interpretation of the laws of the Quran. They seek to destroy all other branches of Islam as well as convert or destroy all non-Muslims. ISIS has become the most bureaucratic terrorist organization that has ever been seen. As well as the world’s richest terrorist organization to date with an estimated value of over Two billion USD, and a daily income of approximately two million1. The core of ISIS’s money machine runs on two things; the fear and the greed of the of people it controls. It has manifested itself into a wide range of profitable activities that have given it a strong financial structure able to support its population of over eight

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