What ISIS Wants|5 Minute Video
ISIS has conquered territory throughout the Middle East and northern Africa. What does ISIS desire? Tom Joscelyn, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses.
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Script:
It appears that barely a day passes in which the Islamic State, likewise referred to as ISIS or ISIL, doesn’t appear in a paper or on a television news screen. And the news is always bad– horrible death and wanton destruction of a type seldom seen in modern-day history.
What is the Islamic State? Where did it originate from? What does it desire? And why? Let’s attempt to answer these questions in turn.
Initially, ISIS is the invalid child of Saddam Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda. Saddam’s previous military and intelligence officers hold many of ISIS’s a lot of senior positions and have supervised the group’s increase to prominence. In 2002 and early 2003, some al Qaeda members transferred from Afghanistan to Iraq, where they prepared to eliminate the Americans, who fell Saddam Hussein’s program in March 2003. These jihadists became called al Qaeda in Iraq when their leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi swore his obligation to Osama bin Laden in 2004. Zarqawi, a murderous psychopath, was lastly eliminated by US and Iraqi forces in June 2006. Following his death, al Qaeda in Iraq was rebranded as the Islamic State of Iraq.
In 2013 he defied orders from his superiors and stated that his group was now the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Levant, known by its acronyms ISIS and ISIL. It’s worth noting that ISIS continues to market Osama bin Laden’s endorsement of them to this day.
What does ISIS want and why? ISIS is attempting to reanimate an empire comparable to those that developed in Islam’s early history.
ISIS’s leaders desire their fans to think they are combating as part of this same religious war. When ISIS’s Libyan branch executed 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in 2015, ISIS promoted the slayings in a video titled, “A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation of the Cross”– “the Nation of the Cross,” of course, meaning Christians.
Regardless of looking for to spark an inter-faith war, however, the majority of ISIS’s victims are Muslims, particularly Shiite Muslims for whom ISIS, which is Sunni Muslim, harbors an unique displeasure. ISIS claims that any Muslim who does not swear bay’ah (an oath of loyalty) to Baghdadi is an “infidel” or an “apostate.” Even ISIS’s rival jihadists in al Qaeda are thought about apostates, because they decline to genuflect to Baghdadi.
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ISIS is the illegitimate child of Saddam Hussein’s routine and al Qaeda. In 2013 he defied orders from his superiors and stated that his group was now the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or Levant, understood by its acronyms ISIS and ISIL. When ISIS’s Libyan branch performed 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in 2015, ISIS advertised the slayings in a video titled, “A Message Signed With Blood to the Nation of the Cross”– “the Nation of the Cross,” of course, suggesting Christians. Regardless of looking for to spark an inter-faith war, however, many of ISIS’s victims are Muslims, especially Shiite Muslims for whom ISIS, which is Sunni Muslim, harbors a special displeasure. Even ISIS’s competing jihadists in al Qaeda are considered apostates, due to the fact that they refuse to genuflect to Baghdadi.
