ISIS Essay
Over the past few years, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria terrorist group, better known as ISIS, has become an organization many people of the world are very familiar with. The group began to form from what was left from the terrorist group al Qaeda following the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq in the late 2000s. The organization has since grown to frightening levels and has included mass terrorist attacks world-wide, including bombing a Russian airplane killing over 200 people, 130 people killed and 300 injured in the Paris attacks, and at least 48 people shot down at a night club in Florida by a gunman who had pledged his allegiance to the terrorist group (Glenn). With such a horrific disregard for human life and the destruction they have
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Not only do they believe that their cause is worthy, but they are convinced that the US is evil, and their enemy. ISIS believes that they are fighting for the right reasons, and that what they are doing is for the best. According to Omar Sultan Haykel, ISIS uses multiple claims to support their case. They believe “the U.S. support for Israel and authoritarian Arab regimes, the massive military presence in the Persian Gulf to control oil resources, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and control of the global reserve currency” are just a few of the reasons ISIS believes they have the right to fight (79). ISIS also believes they must “resort to violence and terror” as it is “the only solution that jihadists offer to remedy these problems that allegedly keep Muslims weak.” (Haykel 79). Ever since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom (the war in Afghanistan) ISIS has stood firm that the U.S. has been in their nation without reason. Because the U.S. has worked to prevent ISIS from acting, it has increased their efforts to create fear. Haykel states, “As the jihadist lose battles and ground in the Middle East, they will become desperate and resort to terror in the West to maintain the illusion of relevance and power” (72). If ISIS feels like they are irrelevant they will only work harder to make themselves
Not only do they believe that their cause is worthy, but they are convinced that the US is evil, and their enemy. ISIS believes that they are fighting for the right reasons, and that what they are doing is for the best. According to Omar Sultan Haykel, ISIS uses multiple claims to support their case. They believe “the U.S. support for Israel and authoritarian Arab regimes, the massive military presence in the Persian Gulf to control oil resources, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and control of the global reserve currency” are just a few of the reasons ISIS believes they have the right to fight (79). ISIS also believes they must “resort to violence and terror” as it is “the only solution that jihadists offer to remedy these problems that allegedly keep Muslims weak.” (Haykel 79). Ever since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom (the war in Afghanistan) ISIS has stood firm that the U.S. has been in their nation without reason. Because the U.S. has worked to prevent ISIS from acting, it has increased their efforts to create fear. Haykel states, “As the jihadist lose battles and ground in the Middle East, they will become desperate and resort to terror in the West to maintain the illusion of relevance and power” (72). If ISIS feels like they are irrelevant they will only work harder to make themselves