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A General FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) About ISIS
1. What is ISIS?
To sum Isis up in the most basic sense they are an illigeal Islamic based terrorist group/regime that subscribes to an evil ideology, mindset and ways of life, this group/regime terrorizes innocent people, persecutes them and uses various means to torture and kill them, including groups such as Christians, Jews, other Muslims, Americans, Israeli's, anti-Isis rebels, etc. They will often in cases of not killing these people either banish them/exile them from their own land/houses/areas/places of living, impose taxes on them, make them convert to their own perverted way of life, etc.
Isis is based in The Middle East, mainly Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, with leaders and supporters in other areas and countries such as Africa, The UK, etc.
"The group has had a number of different names since its formation in early 2004 as Jama?at al-Taw?id wa-al-Jihad, "The Organization of Monotheism and Jihad" (JTJ).
In October 2004, the group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi swore loyalty to Osama bin Laden and changed the name of the group to Tan?im Qa?idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, "The Organization of Jihad's Base in the Country of the Two Rivers," more commonly known as "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" (AQI). Although the group has never called itself "Al-Qaeda in Iraq", this name has frequently been used to describe it through its various incarnations.
In January 2006, AQI merged with several smaller Iraqi insurgent groups under an umbrella organization called the "Mujahideen Shura Council." This was little more than a media exercise and an attempt to give the group a more Iraqi flavour and perhaps to distance al-Qaeda from some of al-Zarqawi's tactical errors, notably the 2005 bombings by AQI of three hotels in Amman. Al-Zarqawi was killed in June 2006, after which the group's direction shifted again.
On 12 October 2006, the Mujahideen Shura Council joined four more insurgent factions and the representatives of a number of Iraqi Arab tribes, and together they swore the traditional Arab oath of allegiance known as ?ilf al-Mu?ayyabin ("Oath of the Scented Ones"). During the ceremony, the participants swore to free Iraq's Sunnis from what they described as Shia and foreign oppression, and to further the name of Allah and restore Islam to glory.
On 13 October 2006, the establishment of the Dawlat al-?Iraq al-Islamiyah, "Islamic State of Iraq" (ISI) was announced. A cabinet was formed and Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi became ISI's figurehead emir, with the real power residing with the Egyptian Abu Ayyub al-Masri.[95] The declaration was met with hostile criticism, not only from ISI's jihadist rivals in Iraq, but from leading jihadist ideologues outside the country. Al-Baghdadi and al-Masri were both killed in a US–Iraqi operation in April 2010. The next leader of the ISI was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the current leader of ISIS.
On 9 April 2013, having expanded into Syria, the group adopted the name "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", also known as "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham." The name is abbreviated as ISIS or alternately ISIL. The final "S" in the acronym ISIS stems from the Arabic word Sham (or Shaam), which in the context of global jihad refers to the Levant or Greater Syria. ISIS was also known as al-Dawlah ("the State"), or al-Dawlat al-Islamiyah ("the Islamic State"). These are short-forms of the name "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham" in Arabic; it is similar to calling "the United States of America" "the States."
ISIS's detractors, particularly in Syria, refer to the group as "Da'ish" or "Daesh", (????), a term that is based on an acronym formed from the letters of the name in Arabic, al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi Iraq wa al-Sham. The group considers the term derogatory and reportedly uses flogging as a punishment for people who use the acronym in ISIS-controlled areas.
On 14 May 2014, the United States Department of State announced its decision to use "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) as the group's primary name. The debate over which acronym should be used to designate the group, ISIL or ISIS, has been discussed by several commentators. Ishaan Tharoor from The Washington Post concluded: "In the larger battlefield of copy style controversies, the distinction between ISIS or ISIL is not so great."
On 29 June 2014, the establishment of a new caliphate was announced, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi named as its caliph, and the group formally changed its name to the "Islamic State".
In late August 2014, a leading Islamic authority Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah advised Muslims to stop calling the group "Islamic State" and instead refer to it as "Al-Qaeda Separatists in Iraq and Syria" or "QSIS", due to the militant group's un-Islamic character." (Source: ISIS via Wikipedia)
2. Who Are ISIS?
"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL)" See #1 above.
Also, from Islamic State via Rational Wiki:
The
Islamic State,
[1] previously
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (or
ISIL), formerly known as the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or
ISIS), and, before that the
Islamic State in Iraq (they really like changing their name
[2] is a
Jihadist terrorist group operating in
Iraq and
Syria claiming to be a
Caliphate. Founded by
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, it grew out of
al-Qaeda in Iraq
[3] (formerly the "Group for
Monotheism and Jihad") after its split and rebuke by al-Qaeda commanders in April 2013
[4]
for excess brutality. The group continues to hold its designation as a
foreign terrorist organization by the United States Department of State.
[5] Its current leader,
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
[6] said to be a former member of the
Fedayeen Saddam,[wp] was broken out of
Abu Ghraib prison in July 2013 by ISIL along with several hundred experienced jihadists.
[7] On June 30, 2014 they declared a
Sunni caliphate with Baghdadi as the “Commander of the Faithful,” a term essentially declaring him
leader of all Muslims.
They truly rose as a powerful clique during the ongoing Syrian
civil war.
They carved out an enormous swathe of territory between Syria and Iraq,
including weapons abandoned by fleeing soldiers, banks, money -
everything that makes them, effectively, Al Qaeda on steroids. It is
responsible for
ethnic cleansing of all
sects
they disagree with, as well as consistent civilian causalities in their
quest for power. They give all civilians the option of forced
conversion to their particular interpretation of
Islam,
to be extorted, or death. Sometimes they execute converts as a way to
keep them pure. The brutality is such that an entire group of people
absolutely no one heard of before August of 2014 (well,
kinda), the
Yazidis, are at risk of
genocide.
This page will be updated as the situation unfolds. In the
meantime, rest assured that they are bad news. Unlike most terrorist
organizations, ISIS has been documented to be well-funded and it's
fanatical soldiers are said to be surprisingly competent fighters who
are "very professional, well trained, motivated and equipped. They
operate like a state with a military."
[8] So bad, in fact, that the
US,
Russia,
Syria,
Iran, the Kurdish
nationalists of Iraq and Syria, and the Kurdish
Communists of the PKK are
all cooperating against them. Indeed, their own members have left, disaffected by the degree of
extremism;
even al-Nusra Front, which uses child soldiers, split with them and
began fighting them (they still want to kill you too, though). When
they do eventually fall apart, the cause will be clear."
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Islamic_State
3. What Is ISIS About And Why Do Certain People Support It?
Again, see #1 & #2 above, also Isis is about waging a holy war (A "Jihad")
against all they deem "unholy" or "evil" but the end goal is to get people to
follow their very evil itself and corrupt way of life based on man made rules,
terrorism, crime, murder and other criminal/terrorist acts.
4. Why Does ISIS Exist?
Quite simply, to wage holy war (Again, a "Jihad") against The West for
their own reasons, mainly revenge, retaliation for other terrorists killed
and to impose a false way of life on others under their control and regime..
5. What Is The History Of ISIS And It's Origins?
"Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (abrreviated JTJ or shortened to Tawhid and Jihad, Tawhid wal-Jihad, sometimes Tawhid al-Jihad, Al Tawhid or Tawhid) was started in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and a combination of foreigners and local Islamist sympathizers.[74] Al-Zarqawi was a Jordanian Salafi Jihadist who had traveled to Afghanistan to fight in the Soviet-Afghan War, but he arrived after the departure of the Soviet troops and soon returned to his homeland. He eventually returned to Afghanistan, running an Islamic militant training camp near Herat.
Al-Zarqawi started the network with the intention of overthrowing the Kingdom of Jordan, which he considered to be un-Islamic according to the four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence. For this purpose he developed numerous contacts and affiliates in several countries. Although it has not been verified, his network may have been involved in the late 1999 plot to bomb the Millennium celebrations in the United States and Jordan. However, al-Zarqawi's operatives were responsible for the assassination of US diplomat Laurence Foley in Jordan in 2002.
Following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, al-Zarqawi moved westward into Iraq, where he reportedly received medical treatment in Baghdad for an injured leg. It is believed that he developed extensive ties in Iraq with Ansar al-Islam ("Partisans of Islam"), a Kurdish Islamic militant group based in the extreme northeast of the country. Ansar allegedly had ties to Iraqi Intelligence; Saddam Hussein's motivation would have been to use Ansar as a surrogate force to repress secular Kurds fighting for the independence of Kurdistan.[192] In January 2003, Ansar's founder Mullah Krekar denied any connection with Saddam's government.
The consensus of intelligence officials has since been that there were no links whatsoever between al-Zarqawi and Saddam, and that Saddam viewed Ansar al-Islam "as a threat to the regime"[194] and his intelligence officials were spying on the group. The 2006 Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq concluded: "Postwar information indicates that Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and that the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward al-Zarqawi." According to Michael Weiss, Ansar entered Iraqi Kurdistan through Iran as part of Iran's covert attempts to destabilize Saddam's government.
Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, JTJ developed into an expanding militant network for the purpose of resisting the coalition occupation forces and their Iraqi allies. It included some of the remnants of Ansar al-Islam and a growing number of foreign fighters. Many foreign fighters arriving in Iraq were initially not associated with the group, but once they were in the country they became dependent on al-Zarqawi's local contacts." (Source: ISIS via Wikipedia)
6. How Does ISIS Operate/What Is Their Chain Of Command?
Isis operates like any other terrorist group and in numerous ways
through numerous methods (numerous books and websites can be
found that explain this, if you use Google and look on both goodreads
and Amazon.com though I will try and put up links to some of them
plus check your local library as well don't forget).
The following list is taken from:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/2014/02/13/Exclusive-Top-ISIS-leaders-revealed.html
Top ISIS Leaders Reveled:
1- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
His real name is
Ibrahim al-Badri, also formerly known as Abu Douaa, was a lecturer of
Islamic studies and an Imam at mosques in Bagdad and Falluja before he
was detained by American forces on June 4, 2004. After his release three
years later, he established the “Sunni Army” militia and joined
al-Qaeda. He became the group’s third in command following the death of
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.
2- Abu Ayman al-Iraqi
Al-Iraqi
is one of the main leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) and a member of the organization’s military council. He
previously worked as a colonel in Iraq’s air defense intelligence under
Saddam Hussein, during which time he was nicknamed Abu Muhannad
al-Suweidawi. He was detained for three years in 2007. Following his
release, he moved to Syria and is currently commanding ISIS fighters in
the cities of Edlib, Aleppo and the mountains of Lattakia.
3- Abu Ahmad al-Alwani
A
former member of Saddam’s army, al-Alwani is currently a member of the
ISIS military council. His real name is Waleed Jassem al-Alwani.
4- Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi
Al-Bilawi
was one of the four members of the ISIS military council and former
head of the group’s Shura council. Hailing from al-Khalidiya in Iraq’s
Anbar province, he was detained on Jan. 27, 2005 in the American
military detention center, Camp Bucca. He was later killed in
al-Khalidiya, Anbar. His real name was Adnan Ismael Najm.
5- Haji Bakr
Bakr
was a former officer in Saddam’s army, charged with handling the
development of weapons. He was later imprisoned at Camp Bucca and joined
al-Qaeda after his release. Bakr was reportedly the strongest ISIS
commander in Syria up until his recent death. His real name was Samir
Abd Mouhammad al-Khleifawi.
6- Abu Fatima al-Jaheishi
Al-Jaheishi
was initially in charge of the ISIS operations in southern Iraq before
he moved to the northern city of Kirkuk. His real name is Ni'ma Abd
Nayef al-Jabouri."
Of course their are other leaders in the ISIS chain of command and hierarchy.
7. What Areas Are Under ISIS Influence/Control?
Parts of: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus
and part of southern Turkey but not counting other areas in The Middle East
where sleeper agents (or undercover ones of Isis) may be secretly operating.
Basically the whole Levant region or most of it as far as I know and from my sources
of info.
8. Whom Are The Founders Of ISIS?
According to my own research (mostly via Google but other sources as well)
the main founder of ISIS is none other then...
A man named Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Founder
Of course almost every major (and minor) terrorist organization almost always has more then one founder.
9. Why Is ISIS Waging A War Against The West? (i.e. America, Canada, The UK, Europe, etc)
There are many reasons why this terror group dislikes the West, one reason is anti-Semitism (i.e. That America supports a Jewish state such as Israel) but other reasons may include what their radical religious teachings tell them, a belief in Jihad against others they may deem unholy or unworthy of life, hatred, fear, contempt, etc. based on peer pressure, radical teachings, urban legends, upbringing, etc. about The West and other religious/ethnic groups of people.
10. Why Does ISIS Behead And Murder People?
Their belief in Jihad or Holy War and intense hatred.
11. What Are The Areas Of ISIS Operations And Influence?
The Middle East; Mainly Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey (part of it)
other areas they may want to control are Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan,
Iran, etc.
12. Do Most Muslims Support ISIS Or Not?
Both... Yes and No. Most Muslims and followers of Islam are peaceful people
but a certain percentage of Muslims and those whom subscribe to Islam do in
fact support terror groups such as ISIS, also this may include groups like Al Queda
and The Taliban, etc. combined with a general hostility to Western people, culture,
relgion, ways of life, living, society, dress, freedom, entertainment, etc.
13. What Is Syria, Iraq And Afghanistan Doing About ISIS?
Each country has their own strategy to deal with Isis which has so far
been only little effective, if at all.
14. What Is America And The UK Doing About ISIS?
Deploying drones, using airstrikes and Special Ops, until a more effective strategy
can be developed for dealing with them, mainly the use of numerous ground troops
in either a joint effort with NATO, The U.N. or a combined force with another country
or country's.
America and other Western nations are also keeping a close eye on Isis through the
use of satellite photos and other means of intelligence.
15. Any Statements About ISIS From President Obama, The U.N. Or The Pope, etc?
Pope Francis on Isis:
Pope Francis has acknowledged the possibility of military
intervention in Iraq, where Islamists have terrorized Christians and
other minorities. He stressed that any action must follow a consensus by
multiple countries.
“In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can
only say that it is fair to stop the unjust aggressor. I
underscore the verb ‘stop.’ I’m not saying ‘bomb’ or ‘make war,’
just ‘stop.’ And the means that can be used to stop them must be
evaluated,” said the Pontiff after touching down in Rome,
following a visit to South Korea.
But the Catholic leader was keen to stress that he did not
endorse using the current crisis in Iraq, which has been
proclaimed a Caliphate by the hardline Sunni militia ISIS, as a
pretext for a
“war of conquest.”
“One nation alone cannot judge how you stop this, how you
stop an unjust aggressor. After World War II, the idea of the
United Nations came about: It’s there that you must discuss ‘Is
there an unjust aggression? It seems so. How should we stop it?’
Just this. Nothing more.”
Pope Francis also revealed he and his advisers were considering
whether he might go to northern Iraq to show solidarity with
persecuted Christians. The decision has been currently held off,
he said.
-Pope Francis says ‘unjust aggressor’ ISIS must be stopped, rejects new Iraq ‘conquest’
rt.com,
http://rt.com/news/181188-pope-iraq-intervention-isis/
President Obama:
The U.S. is “going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL the same way we
have gone after al Qaeda,” President Obama said of the terrorist group
that recently took credit for beheading American journalists Steven
Sotloff and James Foley.
The militant group, also known as ISIS, “poses a long-term threat to the
safety and security of NATO members,” Obama said at a press conference
in Newport, Wales. “We have a critical role to play in rolling back this
savage organization.”
The president advocated systematically “taking the fight to” ISIS in much the same way the U.S. combated al Qaeda.
-ABC News, Obama Says US Will 'Degrade and Ultimately Defeat' ISIS Like Al Qaeda
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obama-isis-action/story?id=25261946
Joe Biden:
(CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday
issued a sharp warning to ISIS militants, saying after the United States
is done grieving the death of two American journalists, their killers
will have to answer for their actions.
"They
should know we will follow them to the gates of hell until they are
brought to justice," he forcefully told an audience at an event on the
New Hampshire-Maine border. "Because hell is where they will reside.
Hell is where they will reside."
Biden
opened his remarks in memory of Steven Sotloff, the journalist who was
beheaded by ISIS militants Tuesday, two weeks after James Foley was
executed in the same horrific manner on video. Foley was from New
Hampshire, while Sotloff lived there for boarding school.
CNN, Biden's warning to ISIS militants: 'We will follow them to the gates of hell'
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/politics/joe-biden-isis-gates-of-hell/
16. What Is The Psychology And Motivation Behind ISIS?
See the following article:
Psychology: Deradicalizing Muslim terrorists
As
a prison psychologist I have dealt with more than a hundred criminal
Muslims. Based on my professional experiences and conclusions, I have
written extensively about the psychology of the Muslim mentality and
violence, including being involved in the court case against the killer
and Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr.
It is no secret that the
Islamic texts, the Quran and the hadiths, are the main source of Islamic
terror and crime: Islam teaches Muslims to hate, attack and kill
non-Muslims, and it uses the same psychological tools to remove
psychological hindrances to violence, as in all other kinds of warfare,
by devaluing and demonizing the enemy. Combining mind-numbing repetition
of hateful texts with a humiliating and violent upbringing in the
family and in the Muslim madrassa schools is the ancient two-step recipe
on how to break down human beings and make them submit to criminal
doctrines and commit inhuman acts. Even the most cruel terrorist has
also been an innocent child once, until he or she met with this
classical method of brainwashing that has been integrated into many
Muslim families, societies and schools.
But how to make a violent
Muslim peaceful? This is probably one of the most important questions of
our time, especially among people and authorities working with
anti-terrorism.
Realizing the lack of and need for knowledge in
this important area, I will here share my experience from working as a
professional psychologist with more than hundred aggressive and violent
Muslims.
As a psychologist I have not worked with convicted Muslim
terrorists, so the advice that I give here is based on working with
Muslims who have committed less radical types of crimes, including
murder, attempted murder, arson and rape.
Violent behaviour, Islam and Muslim culture
Based
on my experience, I found eight emotional indicators that are important
when determining whether a Muslim may use violence or even turn to
terror: anger, honor culture, victim mentality, identity, religiosity,
responsibility for oneself, ability to regret and tolerance. Thus
deradicalizing Muslims should aim to reduce the first five and increase
the last three. Unfortunately, Islam and Muslim culture has a tendency
to do the exact opposite. Deradicalizing Muslims is therefore not just
about changing a political mindset, but to a large extent about limiting
the influence of the culture and religion that fuels and partly
constitutes their political mindset.
I have described several of these aspects in previous articles, such as “
Report from the therapy room: Why are Muslims more violent and criminal?“.
Understanding and working with the eight emotional factors
Based
on my work with criminal and violent Muslims, I will here describe
eight psychological factors that contribute to violent behavior among
Muslims. Many of the factors are also typical for non-Muslim criminals
brought up in a family with dysfunctional patterns. I will mention them
here with three subdivisions: a) describing the mental factor. b)
describing how Islam and/or Muslim culture enhances this factor. c)
describing the sign.
Anger:
a) Anger is a
driving force behind most types of violence, including terror. Other
emotions and ideas might be involved as well, but anger is almost always
present, often as the most dominant emotion.
b) Muslims and
anger. During therapy with violent Muslims it became clear that anger
and aggression is much more accepted among Muslims. Contrary to Western
culture, people brought up in Muslim societies see anger less as a sign
of weakness than non-Muslims do. Anger is seen as a sign of strength and
source of respect — not a reason for ridicule and loss of social status
as in Western culture. Therefore Muslims do not limit their aggressive
emotions to the same degree as we do, and they see non-aggressive
responses to aggression as a sign of cowardice and a weakness that can
be exploited further.
c) Indicator. Signs of anger is a indicator when looking for risk of violent behavior.
Honor culture:
a)
Cultures that build on the clan cultural concept of honor have a
tendency to create aggressive and insecure individuals ready to use
violence to protect the inherent fragility of honor.
b) Honor has
an essential place in Muslim culture, and Muslims are expected by both
themselves and their Muslim surroundings to react aggressively if they
or whatever they identify themselves with or represent (family, clan,
area, culture, religion) is criticised or under (perceived) attack.
c) A strong concept of honor increases the risk of violent behaviour.
Victim mentality:
a)
A driving force among most types of terrorists, including Muslim
terrorists, is victim mentality. People seeing themselves as victims
being treated unfairly by hostile powers often see their situation as an
excuse for going beyond the law, generally accepted social behaviour
and responsibility for ones own actions (one is “forced” by the enemy to
act violently).
b) Experiencing oneself as being under the
influence of outer imagined or real forces, whether it is Allah,
conspiring non-Muslims or religious rules and cultural traditions, is a
mindset pervading Muslim culture. A large German study showed “a
distinct victim mentality and heightened acceptance of violence among
[Muslim] youth” and that among “Muslim youth who maintain Muslim
religious affiliation, one finds that a greater amount of violence is
acceptable.”
c) Sign of victim mentality is an indicator for violent behavior.
Identity:
a)
Identification with a religion increases the tendency to take it
personally when one perceives the religion as being under attack.
b)
My experience from working with criminal Muslims, even though many of
them were not practicing their religion actively, is that Muslims
identify themselves very strongly with Islam and the Muslim community
worldwide. This is why criminal Muslims almost never — unless it
concerns rivaling gangs or women — attack other Muslims.
c)
Identification with the Muslim community increases the tendency to take
it personally and react when one perceives Islam or Muslims as being
under attack.
Religiosity:
a) All through
history religions have proven to be able to make people do what they
would not have done without their religion — positive or negative.
b)
Since the Quran and the culture in most Muslim societies preaches
aversion and in some cases even violence against non-Muslims, the degree
of religiosity among Muslims is an important factor when deciding the
risk of violent behaviour. A German study involving intense interviews
with more than 40,000 people concluded that practising Islam increases
anger and risk of violent behavior.
c) Strong religious feelings
and the strong influence of a traditional Muslim upbringing is thus an
important indicator when trying to identify and discover the tendency to
use violence among Muslims and protect Islam against criticism and
attacks.
Responsibility:
a) The ability to
feel responsibility for oneself is important for the ability to display
positive behaviour. The less people feel responsible for their own
actions, the more they are likely to act unacceptably, since they do not
feel that they themselves deserve to face the consequences and do not
feel guilty.
b) A defining characteristic of Islam and Muslim
culture is the lack of responsibility for oneself. According to Islam
everything happens inshallah (Allah willing) and individual freedom is
substituted by religious rules, cultural traditions and the authority of
the family and clan. Muslims to a large extend obey the expectations of
their religion, culture, family and clan. As a result inner locus of
control (experiencing oneself as being in control of one’s life) is very
weak while outer locus of control (experiencing outer factors as being
in control of one’s life) is strong.
c) Lack of responsibility for oneself is important when determining risk of criminal behaviour.
Regret:
a)
Being able to feel and express regret for one’s own negative words and
actions is crucial, especially when trying to determine the risk of
recidivism (committing crime again after having served a sentence or
being trained to abide by the law).
b) Since a victim mentality
and a low amount of responsibility for oneself is characteristic of
people brought up in the Muslim culture, regret is not characteristic.
If one does not take responsibility for one’s own actions, one simply
can not fully regret them, as sincere regret includes insight into one’s
own role in the harm done.
c) Expression of regret based on
insight into one’s own role in the situation is an important indicator
when trying to determine the risk of recidivism.
Tolerance:
a)
Tolerance is important when it comes to respect for others. Low
tolerance often decreases respect and increases the likelihood of
harming people. A classical psychological maneuver to make soldiers more
able to harm the enemy is to lower their respect towards the enemy by
spreading derogatory propaganda about him.
b) Islam and Muslim
culture preaches intolerance towards non-Muslims, both in writing and as
a way of living. Non-Muslims are categorized as inferior, and the Quran
orders Muslims to suppress, attack and kill non-Muslims. Terrorists
often act because of intolerance towards otherwise legal statements and
actions.
c) The degree of tolerance is an important indicator when trying to determine the risk of violent behavior.
Working with the eight emotional factors
A
necessary basis for human change is the realisation of the benefits of
changing. Since many assailants by experience know that threats and
violence can be much more effective in achieving one’s goal — and even
feel the right to act threatening or violent — this it not always an
easy task.
Everybody knows that changing one’s views and habits
does not happen by itself. It takes a conscious effort, and normally no
radical and lasting changes happen unless we want to and make the
necessary and often demanding effort. Often people are not always ready
or willing to change. In these cases it is by doing — or being tricked
into doing — things that maybe only indirectly point to the goal that
one gets closer to the point where one can work on changing oneself more
consciously, in a targeted manner and voluntarily.
Here are some
of the things that I have worked with and would advise using for
treatment of convicted Muslim criminals and terrorists.
Even
though the psychological factors are clearly defined, my estimation is
that even with very competent therapists, only few attempts of
deradicalization are successful. This is because radical Muslims both
have to want it, dare to go against the their own radical network and be
able to go through the hard and extensive psychological and practical
processes of abandoning psychological, cultural and religious factors
deeply rooted in their upbringing and lifestyle, in order to
deradicalize.
Anger:
My experience from
working with Muslims is that many have a heightened readiness to react
to perceived threats. This includes the unpleasant bodily and mental
feelings that often accompany anger, such as stress, anxiety,
restlessness, lowered mood and unpleasant feelings in the head, heart
area, stomach and other places. Throughout the therapy, I also managed
to make many of the Muslim clients aware of the negative personal
consequences that stem from angry behaviour, such as loss of friends,
problems with the authorities, and the lack of ability to communicate
the way one wants when angry.
Mindfulness exercises that relax the
body (lying on a mattress, listening to relaxing music and being guided
to tighten and relax the different muscle groups from toes to face)
helped the clients to become more aware of their tensions and the
unpleasant feelings that come from anger. The immediate benefits of
relaxing by being less angry thus became evident to many of them — they
fell asleep, in spite of normally having great difficulties falling
asleep.
Some of the Muslim clients were also open to learning ways
of handling conflicts and irritation other than using threats and
physical violence through psychoeducation.
I would not be
surprised if anger-reducing medicine is one day be used on violent
extremists — individually or as a non-lethal weapon dropped on violent
masses from airplanes.
Honor culture:
Protecting
honor is a defining characteristic of Muslim culture and has been the
cause of countless killings of women, non-Muslims and Muslims from other
families, clans and sects.
Since a fragile sense of honor is
closely related to low self-esteem, improving peoples’ self-esteem is
vital to make them less emotionally vulnerable to criticism. Of course,
Muslim culture itself has a strong tendency to instill its world-famous
fragile sense of honor in Muslims, but unsolved childhood traumas can be
an important key. Learning social behaviour that increases positive
feedback and healthy pride can also help.
Victim mentality and responsibility:
During
my work with violent Muslims I realized the need for developing a
therapeutic tool that decreases victim mentality and increases
responsibility. For the tool to be useful it had to be simple and
structured, because people brought up in cultures or families less
familiar with psychology and the benefits of expressing inner states
often find normal therapy meaningless or even confusing. I developed a
four-step model that can also be visualized on a piece of paper or a
white board. The four steps show how experiences awaken emotions, which
motivate actions that have consequences that are experienced — etc.
The
steps are drawn and written in a circle, with step 1 at the top (12
o’clock), step 2 at 3 o’clock, step 3 at 6 o’clock and step 4 at 9
o’clock.
Step 1: The client is presented with a timeline on a
paper or white board, going from birth until now. Above the timeline
positive experiences are written, and below it, the negative.
Step
2: The client is asked to describe the emotions connected with the
experiences. These are all listed below step 2 on the paper.
Step 3: The client is then asked what he did and normally does when he has the different emotions mentioned at step 2.
Step 4: The client is asked to describe what emotional and practical consequences these actions had and generally have.
This
model makes it possible — also visually — for the client to see the
connection between the way that he reacts to experiences and what he
experiences. Depending on the client, this can help him to get insight
into the mechanisms of responsibility for himself.
Identity:
Identity
is one of the deepest rooted psychological phenomena, and changing this
is not easy. The problem with radical Muslims is that they identify
with Islam and the Muslim ummah to such an extent that they perceive
themselves as being under attack, no matter how and where Islam or
Muslims are criticised or attacked. This includes a very strong loyalty
that makes them prone to react violently when this happens.
I do
not have any useful suggestions at this point except for maybe showing
Muslim extremists that the biggest enemies of Muslims are other Muslims:
nobody kills more Muslims than Muslims, and nobody oppresses Muslims
more than the Muslim rulers of Muslim countries. The “one ummah, one
body” slogan put forward by the self-proclaimed defenders of Islam
against the West must be seen in light of the fact that Muslims are far
from being one single unit protecting each others’ back.
Religiosity:
Muslim
terrorists are most often very well versed in the Islamic scriptures,
and trying to make them think that certain parts of the Quran should be
seen from a historical perspective and not as guidelines in the modern
world is futile. Since leaving Islam is punishable by death, one has to
be able to present very convincing protection programmes to whoever
considers leaving this religion.
Decreasing religiosity in Muslims
who take the Quran literally is impossible as long as they are able to
indoctrinate themselves and each other with the Islamic texts and
practises. It can be necessary to deprive them of the source that fuels
their hate and political ideas.
Making it so difficult to practise
orthodox and therefore illegal Islam in our countries that they need to
go elsewhere if they want to continue their way of life is a solution.
Ability to regret:
The
ability to regret is necessary in order to change one’s habits and feel
empathy with others. The victim mentality and a lowered sense of
responsibility for oneself decrease the ability to feel regret.
In
many countries around the world, victims and offenders are offered a
chance to meet, and in many cases it has a healing effect on both
parties. Realizing the harm that one has done makes one able to regret
and apologize, which is psychologically healthy. I think everybody knows
the relief that follows when one has finally gotten oneself together
and given an honest apology to somebody we hurt.
Again a four-step procedure can be helpful.
1)
Realizing. First one has to realize that what one has done is wrong.
Meeting with victims or survivors, reading about their suffering and
that of their families, and knowing that innocent people were harmed is
helpful to realize one’s wrongdoing.
2) Admitting. Having reached a
point where one can give an honest acknowledgment of one’s actions, one
simply does so. If one is not able to meet the victim in person, one
can write a letter or give a public statement.
3) Regretting.
After having admitted one’s fault, one is ready to make the important
step of deciding to never repeat one’s mistake.
4) Opposite. In
leaving one’s habits behind, the last thing that has to be done to
finalize the psychological process of regretting is to do the opposite.
If one has previously harmed or hated a certain group of people, one
starts helping them — etc.
Going through these four steps may not
feel very honorable or pleasant for the ego, but if one makes it through
all four steps, one is truly reborn as a better citizen.
Tolerance:
Tolerance
is important because Muslim terrorism if fueled by intolerance toward
non-Muslims and non-Islamic values and societies. Since intolerance are
often created by misunderstanding, creating understanding is a very
effective way to tolerance.
I wish I had had movies showing normal
non-Muslims’ way of life in their families’ daily lives when working
with criminal Muslims’ anger against non-Muslims. Showing the innocent,
happy and constructive lives of normal Danish children and parents would
have been an eye-opener for them. There are so many lies and myths in
the Muslim communities about Westerners, and removing them will surely
increase Muslims’ tolerance towards us.
Taken from: "Jihad Watch"
Psychology: Deradicalizing Muslim terrorists
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/09/psychology-deradicalizing-muslim-terrorists
17. Why Do Young Islamic Men Join Terror Groups/Cults Such As ISIS In The First Place?
See post #16 here, above this one.
18. Where Does ISIS Get It's Funding From?
N/A although it is most likley through numerous sources, means and methods.
*Through various methods, means, operations, donations, sales, donations, funders, stealing,
extortion's, ways, scams, trades, etc.
19. Whom Are The Current Leaders Of ISIS and it's Commanders?
There are many but see post #6 on here for a listing of just a few Isis leaders and commanders.
20. Whom Are The Most Wanted ISIS Members by The FBI And Other Agencies?
Here are the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Terrorists:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists
Some on the Top Ten list are:
9. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI
8. JAMEL AHMED MOHAMMED ALI AL-BADAWI
6. AHMAD ABOUSAMRA
5. ADNAN G. EL SHUKRIJUMAH
4. ALI SAED BIN ALI EL-HOORIE
3. FAOUZI MOHAMAD AYOUB
2. IBRAHIM SALIH MOHAMMED AL-YACOUB
1. HUSAYN MUHAMMAD AL-UMARI
There are rewards being offered for any info leading to the capture of
these most wanted terrorists, for more details see The FBI's link above.
21. What Crimes/War Crimes/Human Rights Abuses Is ISIS Guilty Of?
"Human rights abuses
ISIS compels people in the areas it controls, under the penalty of death, torture or mutilation, to declare Islamic creed, and live according to its interpretation of Sunni Islam and sharia law. It directs violence against Shia Muslims, indigenous Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac and Armenian Christians, Yazidis, Druze, Shabaks and Mandeans in particular.
Treatment of civilians
During the Iraqi conflict in 2014, ISIS released dozens of videos showing its ill treatment of civilians, many of whom had apparently been targeted on the basis of their religion or ethnicity. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned of war crimes occurring in the Iraqi war zone, and disclosed one UN report of ISIS militants murdering Iraqi Army soldiers and 17 civilians in a single street in Mosul. The United Nations reported that in the 17 days from 5 to 22 June, ISIS killed more than 1,000 Iraqi civilians and injured more than 1,000. After ISIS released photographs of its fighters shooting scores of young men, the United Nations declared that cold-blooded "executions" said to have been carried out by militants in northern Iraq almost certainly amounted to war crimes.
ISIS's advance in Iraq in mid-2014 was accompanied by continuing violence in Syria. On 29 May, a village in Syria was raided by ISIS and at least 15 civilians were killed, including, according to Human Rights Watch, at least six children.[326] A hospital in the area confirmed that it had received 15 bodies on the same day. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that on 1 June, a 102-year-old man was killed along with his whole family in a village in Hama.
ISIS has recruited to its ranks Iraqi children, who can be seen with masks on their faces and guns in their hands patrolling the streets of Mosul.
Sexual violence allegations
According to one report, ISIS's capture of Iraqi cities in June 2014 was accompanied by an upsurge in crimes against women, including kidnap and rape. The Guardian reported that ISIS's extremist agenda extended to women's bodies and that women living under their control were being captured and raped. Hannaa Edwar, a leading women’s rights advocate in Baghdad who runs an NGO called al-Amal, said that none of her contacts in Mosul were able to confirm any cases of rape; however, another Baghdad-based women's rights activist, Basma al-Khateeb, said that a culture of violence existed in Iraq against women generally and felt sure that sexual violence against women was happening in Mosul involving not only ISIS but all armed groups. During a meeting with Nouri al-Maliki, British Foreign Minister William Hague said with regard to ISIS: "Anyone glorifying, supporting or joining it should understand that they would be assisting a group responsible for kidnapping, torture, executions, rape and many other hideous crimes". According to Martin Williams in The Citizen, some hard-line Salafists apparently regard extramarital sex with multiple partners as a legitimate form of holy war and it is "difficult to reconcile this with a religion where some adherents insist that women must be covered from head to toe, with only a narrow slit for the eyes". Yezidi girls in Iraq were allegedly raped by ISIS fighters, and subsequently committed suicide, as described in a witness statement recorded by Rudaw.
War crimes accusations
The BBC reported the UN's chief investigator as stating: "Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) may be added to a list of war crimes suspects in Syria".
Guidelines for civilians
After the self-proclaimed Islamic State captured cities in Iraq, ISIS issued guidelines on how to wear clothes and veils. ISIS warned women in the city of Mosul to wear full-face veils or face severe punishment. A cleric told Reuters in Mosul that ISIS gunmen had ordered him to read out the warning in his mosque when worshippers gathered.[339] ISIS also banned naked mannequins and ordered the faces of both male and female mannequins to be covered. ISIS released 16 notes labeled "Contract of the City", a set of rules aimed at civilians in Nineveh. One rule stipulated that women should stay at home and not go outside unless necessary. Another rule said that stealing would be punished by amputation.
Christians living in areas under ISIS control who wanted to remain in the "caliphate" faced three options, converting to Islam, paying a religious levy—jizya—or death. "We offer them three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract – involving payment of jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword", ISIS said. ISIS had already set similar rules for Christians in Ar-Raqqah, Syria, once one of the nation's most liberal cities." (Source: ISIS via Wikipedia)
22. Is ISIS Related To The Taliban Or Al Queda?
Both yes and no. But even Al Queda has now condemned Isis
for it's views and behavior are much more barbaric, violent and
extreme even for Al Queda's tastes.
23. What Is ISIS Goal? What Are ISIS Main Goals and Tactics?
"From its beginnings the establishment of a pure Islamic state has been one of the group's main goals.[120] According to journalist Sarah Birke, one of the "significant differences" between Al-Nusra Front and ISIS is that ISIS "tends to be more focused on establishing its own rule on conquered territory". While both groups share the ambition to build an Islamic state, ISIS is "far more ruthless ... carrying out sectarian attacks and imposing sharia law immediately". ISIS finally achieved its goal on 29 June 2014, when it removed "Iraq and the Levant" from its name, began to refer to itself as the Islamic State, and declared the territory which it occupied in Iraq and Syria a new caliphate.
In mid-2014, the group released a video entitled "The End of Sykes–Picot" featuring an English-speaking Chilean national named Abu Safiyya. The video announced the group's intention to eliminate all modern borders between Islamic Middle Eastern countries; this was a reference to the borders set by the Sykes–Picot Agreement during World War I."
This is also followed by:
"The stated goals of JTJ were: (i) to force a withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq; (ii) to topple the Iraqi interim government; (iii) to assassinate collaborators with the occupation regime; (iv) to remove the Shia population and defeat its militias because of its death-squad activities; and (v) to establish subsequently a pure Islamic state.
JTJ differed considerably from the other early Iraqi insurgent groups in its tactics. Rather than using only conventional weapons and guerrilla tactics in ambushes against the US and coalition forces, it relied heavily on suicide bombings, often using car bombs. It targeted a wide variety of groups, especially the Iraqi Security Forces and those facilitating the occupation. Groups of workers who have been targeted by JTJ include Iraqi interim officials, Iraqi Shia and Kurdish political and religious figures, the country's Shia Muslim civilians, foreign civilian contractors, and United Nations and humanitarian workers. Al-Zarqawi's militants are also known to have used a wide variety of other tactics, including targeted kidnappings, the planting of improvised explosive devices, and mortar attacks. Beginning in late June 2004, JTJ implemented urban guerrilla-style attacks using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. They also gained worldwide notoriety for beheading Iraqi and foreign hostages and distributing video recordings of these acts on the Internet." (Source: ISIS via Wikipedia)
24. What Is ISIS Ideology?
"ISIS is an extremist group that follows al-Qaeda's hard-line ideology and adheres to global jihadist principles. Like al-Qaeda and many other modern-day jihadist groups, ISIS emerged from the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s first Islamist group dating back to the late 1920s in Egypt. ISIS follows an extreme anti-Western interpretation of Islam, promotes religious violence and regards those who do not agree with its interpretations as infidels and apostates. Concurrently, ISIS—now IS—aims to establish a Salafist-orientated Islamist state in Iraq, Syria and other parts of the Levant.
ISIS's ideology originates in the branch of modern Islam that aims to return to the early days of Islam, rejecting later "innovations" in the religion which it believes corrupt its original spirit. It condemns later caliphates and the Ottoman empire for deviating from what it calls pure Islam and hence has been attempting to establish its own caliphate. However, there are some Sunni commentators, Zaid Hamid, for example, and even Salafi and jihadi muftis such as Adnan al-Aroor and Abu Basir al-Tartusi, who say that ISIS and related terrorist groups are not Sunnis at all, but Kharijite heretics serving an imperial anti-Islamic agenda.
Salafists such as ISIS believe that only a legitimate authority can undertake the leadership of jihad, and that the first priority over other areas of combat, such as fighting against non-Muslim countries, is the purification of Islamic society. For example, when it comes to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, since ISIS regards the Palestinian Sunni group Hamas as apostates who have no legitimate authority to lead jihad, it regards fighting Hamas as the first step toward confrontation with Israel." (Source: ISIS via Wikipedia)
25. How Can We Stop ISIS And Defeat Them?
Through warfare, psychological warfare, tactics, intelligence, capture and interrogation, etc.
26. What Western Journalists Were Beheaded?
Steven Sotloff & James Foley (plus numerous others, RIP) see here for more info:
Steven Sotloff Beheaded by
ISIS, Becoming 70th Journalist Killed Covering Syria Conflict
Steven Sotloff, 71 Other Journalists Killed So Far
27. Why Was That Journalist And The Other One Too Beheaded?
For revenge and retaliation against U.S. airstrikes in Syria against Isis, plus other
reasons as well such as fear, hatred and anger, etc.
28. Will Any More Kidnapped Journalists/Rebels/People Be Killed By ISIS?
Possibly, yes. The count may go up. Journalists from the west should be very cautious.
Many have been lured into traps and kidnapped.
29. Whom Beheaded Those Journalists On Camera With The British Accent?
It is unknown at this time but Western, including U.S. and U.K. intelligence is working
hard to figure out whom this monster is.
30. Why Does That ISIS Executioner Have a British Accent? Is It Real Or Fake? Someone Else's Imposed Upon The Video? Is This Terrorist An Arab Or Of Europeon Descent Or Mixed Or Another Ethnicity/Nationality? Could This Killer Be A Female ISIS Member Disguised As A Man Or Not?
They may be from the UK, it indeed seems to be a real British accent, not imposed, the terrorist may
be an Arab, and a male definitely.
31. What Do ISIS Members Do All Day When Not Terrorizing Or Fighting Or Moving Or Running Away Or Killing Or Kidnapping People?
Recruiting new members, hiding, sneaking around, stealing, terrorizing, fleeing, having sex with each other. talking, planning, etc.
32. How Does ISIS Recruit It's Members?
Through various means and methods.
33. Why Does ISIS Crucify And Behead People?
It is based on their ideology and beliefs in holy war ("Jihad") and other man made rules and laws.
34. How Many Rebels Are Fighting Against ISIS And How Many Have Been Killed Fighting Against Them?
N/A but there are a certain number.
35. What Can We Do To Stop ISIS From Spreading It's Ideology Of Terror, Violence, Death, Hate, Fear, Misinformation And Lies?
Education people mainly, fighting back and showing our Humanity.
36. How Will ISIS Be Defeated?
Through warfare and destruction, etc. by all nations participating in warfare against them
and also including capture, surrender and turning themselves/others in, etc.
37. General/Updated Notes And Observations About ISIS
N/A at this time.
38. A Tribute To All Those Killed By ISIS Terrorists
“He Is Not Dead
I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead. He is just away.
With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand,
He has wandered into an unknown land
And left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be, since he lingers there.
And you—oh you, who the wildest yearn
For an old-time step, and the glad return,
Think of him faring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love of Here.
Think of him still as the same. I say,
He is not dead—he is just away.”
―
James Whitcomb Riley
John 11:25-26
Jesus said to her, "I am the
resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though
he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you
believe this?"
Jewish inspired:
"Who is wise?
One who learns from every man… Who is strong? One who overpowers his
inclinations… Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot… Who is
honorable? One who honors his fellows.” – Ben Zoma, Ethics of the
Fathers, 4:1
39. Final Thoughts And Notes About ISIS
ISIS - A Major Threat To The Middle East, America, Canada, The UK, Europe, Western Culture, Society and The Rest Of The World At Large
1. ISIS is a militia/cult, formed by charismatic extremist Islamic leaders and figures with anti-Western values, ideoogy, mindset and hatred hell bent on waging a holy war (What's called a "Jihad") and getting people to follow their rules, laws, culture and way of life which are inferior, unjust, unrighteous, immoral, unethical, ungodly, unholy, piggish, barbaric, demented, boring, insane, etc.
2. ISIS is a parasite, a cancer that is spread by brainwashing disenfranchised and angry and bored young men of Islamic faith and Middle Eastern descent from mainly The Middle East and The U.K. (Great Britian mainly) plus other countries as well with supporters of it's ideology and "Jihad" (meaning "Holy War").
3. ISIS leaders, commanders and soldiers seek to destroy life, property and terrorize the general populace of ISIS controlled areas by imposing forced terrorism, taxes, threats of violence, death, expulsion and has carried out murderous tactics on Western journalists and others (including Christians, other Muslims and Jews, etc).
ISIS crimes include murder, terrorism, kidnapping, threats, violence, bestiality, animal abuse and killing, stealing, and numerous other crimes as well including, but not limited to: War crimes and crimes against Humanity, The Geneva Convention (and related) international laws.
4. ISIS members are mostly young Arab men of Islamic faith between 15-35 years of age (though some members may be older, some younger) and are recruited by charismatic ISIS members and leaders, by brainwashing and psychological techniques, peer pressure, intimidation, fear, money, anti-Western propaganda, lies, threats, etc.
5. ISIS is an illigeal militia and death cult that values (and uses) terrorism, death and destruction to rule over human life, freedom and peace.
6. ISIS must be condemned by all Western and non-Western people and leaders, The U.N., Rome and other countries as well this should include esp. Middle East nations such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Pakistan, etc.
7. ISIS military buildup and activity is increasing and so are illigeal funds to fund their rein of terrorism through numerous sources, methods, activities and means.
8. Airstrikes by drones and human pilots from the USAF plus other nations e.g. Russia, China, Canada, The UK, European States, etc. must be carried out on a daily if not weekly basis against ISIS targets and agents of terror.
9. A ground war may be necessary against this militia/cult/group of death and destruction, in addition to an air to ground war already mentioned above.
President Obama is weak on this issue, VP Joe Biden is much more vocal on it and seems not to be as weak.
10. Special Ops must take a part in this war as well from differing nations in a joint effort to take out ISIS leaders and commanders plus installations and bases as well.
11. An investigation needs to take place regarding where and from whom ISIS gets it's funds from and how to stop and deplete ISIS and it's sources of these funds and resources.
12. Another set of directives must be issued by all or most nations on not just offense but defense against ISIS, future terror attacks, where ISIS would strike if outside The Middle East, what targets, landmarks, etc. it would target and how to stop it's cult, ideology and brainwashing of young, Islamic/Non-Islamic Middle Eastern Arabs (and Islamic/Non-Islamic Arabs from other areas too).
13. ISIS should be given an ultimatum by several nations not only condemning them but making them an illigeal entity like the Nazi's were and outlawing them, unless already done so.
14. Rebels fighting against ISIS must have the full support of not only most nations in The Middle East but also most nations around the world including America.
15. ISIS And all it's members activities should be closely monitored at all times by intelligence agencies around the world.
Note: Sorry if these are really obvious notes and insights, more might might added, any thoughts, comments or suggestions feel free to leave comments and ISIS supporters, members (and hackers too!) reading this, may you burn in either Hell or Oblivion unless you repent of your evil ways and renounce support for ISIS, a terror organization and cult of Violence, death and destruction that is based on hatred, lies, misinformation and a false way of life -R.K.
40. Sources and Links About ISIS, Al Queda And The Taliban
ISIS/ISUL Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
Islamic Terrorism - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_terrorism
Who Are Isis? - The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/isis-too-extreme-al-qaida-terror-jihadi
ISIS/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (or
ISIL)
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/ISIS
Psychology: Deradicalizing Muslim Terrorists - Jihad Watch
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/09/psychology-deradicalizing-muslim-terrorists
This Is How You Fight ISIS - The Daily Best
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/19/this-is-how-you-fight-isis.html
41. Government, Law Enforcement And Media Related Websites
See post #45 on here.
42. Websites On Judaism, Christianity And Islam
The Torah/Judaism 101:
http://www.jewfaq.org/index.shtml
The Bible/Christianity 101:
http://christianity.about.com/od/newchristians/p/christianbasics.htm
The Koran/Islam 101:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam-101
43. A Message To ISIS
There is nothing left to say except to surrender, run away, commit suicide or be killed.
That is my message to you evil scumbags, monsters, butchers and pigs.
44. Archived/Current News Story's On ISIS
See:
Google
Yahoo News
ABC News
NBC News
Fox News
MSNBC News
The Chicago Tribune
The Washington Post
The New York Times
USA Today
The Telegraph (U.K.)
Daily Mail (U.K.)
The Guardian (U.K.)
Wall Street Journal
azspot.net
Etc.
45. Terrorism And Crime Related Websites &, Resources
FBI-
http://www.fbi.gov/
CIA-
https://www.cia.gov/index.html
U.S. DoD-
http://www.defense.gov/
Homeland Security-
http://www.dhs.gov/
Counter Terrorism Websites-
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/jongman-internet-websites/html
46. About The Author
A proud Westerner/American that grew up in America and still lives here in this great country
and has had family that served in the U.S. Armed Forces, including WWII and Korea,
plus friends that have served in the military as well.
I enjoy video games, movies, music, freedom, peace and exposing terrorists and their
way of life btw.
47 Semi -.Final Note: Why Does Isis Hide Behind Masks? Are They Cowards?
Short answer: Yes, they are cowards and fear of their own death makes
them hide behind their masks they wear, but is not the only reason why
they do so.
*This Page And Website/Blog Are Dedicated To All Of ISIS Victims
And To Help Educate People About Their Evil, Vile Cult/Militia And
Terrorism Tactics, Etc. By Spreading The Truth About Them.
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