Since the beginning of an organization ISIS have 143 attacks in 29 countries and have killed nearly 2,043 people (Lister). The enormous amount of terrorist attacks in the Middle East and all around the globe have been caused by this extremist group named ISIS. Some of these regions include Australia, North America, Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Europe. Since the creation of this extremist group in 1999 in Iraq the numbers of attacks have been climbing, but especially in these past few years. Through their faith of radical Islam the group has tried to force citizens to believe Islam through “mass killings” and “public executions through social media”. They use such force to ultimately make countries feel that they are “dominated by the
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Those who have the most militant fighters in their terrorist group usually is more successful in the long run. This was the same when ISIS was first starting out with just a few hundred soldiers. In 2013 there was a rise in their power due to more people willing to fight for their cause. This rise in power could have been caused by “them capturing the Syrian city of Raqqa, in June 2014, ISIS took the major Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit and controlled much of the border between Iraq and Syria” (Gale). The more land power ISIS captures the more kidnapped or willing militants they have to fight for their ultimate plan. ISIS has also grown through followers by scaring many of the already Muslim believers in “a coming apocalypse when Muslims will face their enemies in a final conflict” (Gale) and they must fight the foreigners or the American soldiers in order to keep their faith. While this group not only reaches those in the country they have taken over, but they reach a whole new audience over social media. Using social media to scare everyone in the U.S or any other country. In August 2014, ISIS released a video online showing the murder of American journalist James Foley who was kidnapped in Syria two year earlier (Sanchez). They are using the fear factor to show everyone else that they are not messing around with what they believe. There even have been many who have either been messaging people who run ISIS social media accounts or gone by their own free will, but “an estimated 3,400 Westerners have traveled to join ISIS in its quest to establish an Islamist state in Iraq and Syria, according to counterterrorism officials. At least 200 Americans have gone or attempted to travel to Syria (Sanchez). This finding just goes to show that social media has a huge impact on every aspect of life. It can even cause people to travel to the most dangerous countries to pursue a cause that they truly
Those who have the most militant fighters in their terrorist group usually is more successful in the long run. This was the same when ISIS was first starting out with just a few hundred soldiers. In 2013 there was a rise in their power due to more people willing to fight for their cause. This rise in power could have been caused by “them capturing the Syrian city of Raqqa, in June 2014, ISIS took the major Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit and controlled much of the border between Iraq and Syria” (Gale). The more land power ISIS captures the more kidnapped or willing militants they have to fight for their ultimate plan. ISIS has also grown through followers by scaring many of the already Muslim believers in “a coming apocalypse when Muslims will face their enemies in a final conflict” (Gale) and they must fight the foreigners or the American soldiers in order to keep their faith. While this group not only reaches those in the country they have taken over, but they reach a whole new audience over social media. Using social media to scare everyone in the U.S or any other country. In August 2014, ISIS released a video online showing the murder of American journalist James Foley who was kidnapped in Syria two year earlier (Sanchez). They are using the fear factor to show everyone else that they are not messing around with what they believe. There even have been many who have either been messaging people who run ISIS social media accounts or gone by their own free will, but “an estimated 3,400 Westerners have traveled to join ISIS in its quest to establish an Islamist state in Iraq and Syria, according to counterterrorism officials. At least 200 Americans have gone or attempted to travel to Syria (Sanchez). This finding just goes to show that social media has a huge impact on every aspect of life. It can even cause people to travel to the most dangerous countries to pursue a cause that they truly