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problem for over 10 years. ISIS began in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq, before rebranding as ISIS two years later. This organization is headed by Iraq-born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. ISIS has conquered Mosul, which is located in northern Iraq. ISIS makes a portion of their money from the collection of taxes and fees in areas they have control of. ISIS’ power base is in Raqque, which is located in eastern Syria. They are in control of more than…

The Moment Before Steven Sotloff was an Israeli born freelance writer and reporter who often traveled to his homeland in the Middle East. The terrorist group ISIS captured Sotloff because of his dual Israeli-American citizenship and because of his practice of Judaism. In the photo there are two people, the prisoner Sotloff and the executioner. There is a desert background and an Arabic caption. This image depicts Sotloff and the ISIS member who is about to carry out the execution of Sotloff the…

ISIS is the biggest threat to the world and to the Christian people because over the past Three months ISIS has killed about 5,300 Christians and Yazidi. ISIS also forced about 1.2 million Iraqis and Syrian citizens out of their homes. ISIS militants are not Muslims; in fact they’re not even humans because no human would commit the crime that ISIS had committed in the past months. On one occasion ISIS militants killed About 500 Yezidis and buried some alive, while killing others in a mass…

Damage of religion is really a hard idea to discuss. A religion is the worship and service of a God or the supernatural that expresses a group of beliefs, ideas and existence about the universe. There are many different religions in the world. Each continent has a couple of religions, each one of them divided into many parts. Religion has played a part in distributes the struggles that have affected the whole world throughout history, Whether it was for Christian, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism or any…

Movie Essay The purpose of the movie was to learn about how life was back then with gods and kings. Who ruled places or how they did. We also learned about how people had wars back then in 500 B.C. And how many wives a god or king could have . This movie was about Christian's , Muslim's and a little bit of Koreans . The only problem I had with the film was that people really don't know all of what these people did back in the day. They just base it off statistics . They didn't live…

Similar to the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire experienced a rise and fall and began its reign with the Islamic religion. Members of the Safavid tribe were the founders of a sunni sufi religious brotherhood in Azerbaijan, which was popularly fought over by other empires including the Ottoman Empire. A major differentiating factor for the Safavids was that their making of Shiite Islam the state religion of Iran made it very different from its neighboring Sunni Muslim empires. This…

Flood, Nineveh was founded by Nimrod a warrior, (Genesis 10:11-12). It was the capital of the Assyrian empire and rose to power around 900 B.C. Nineveh, the oldest and most-populous city of the ancient Assyrian empire, is today's present day city of Mosul, Iraq. It was located at the intersection of important north-south and east-west trade routes, with fertile agricultural and pastoral lands (Mallow, Encyclopedia). Years later, Assyria began the process of conquering Israel, and Jonah clearly…

All countries, nation or group have difference of living, religions, and traditions called culture. Culture defines groups of people. Sometimes, a country could have different cultures, but from one country to other country, the differences are really big. This paper will investigate culture through education, human right, and lifestyle by contrasting United State and Iraq. Education is the most important factor for the progress of countries. There are many differences in the United State…

Media Representations Media is a powerful tool that many can manipulate to put forth their own agendas. ISIS’ use of media is quite sophisticated and represents a new age of high-tech terrorism. Their propaganda videos depict high-definition, graphic executions. Some are sceptical of their sophisticated filming techniques and multiple camera angles, as they are a group whose headquarters are in the midst of bomb-ruined areas (Durden, 2015). The high quality of ISIS media propaganda in contrast…

Imagine a small, yet strong group of people living in mountainous regions in the Middle East. For centuries, these people have developed their own culture and identity. Yet, they are not acknowledged as their own sovereign and the nation that lays claim to them viciously persecutes them. For the Kurdish people of northern Iraq, the disdain of their neighbors has plagued them for centuries. On March 16, 1988, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein ordered a series of chemical attacks on the Kurdish people…