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 Many Americans now know
about ISIS, the strongest, most ferocious, best funded terrorist
organization in the world today. The Islamic State now has a presence
in over a dozen countries ruling over roughly 10 million citizens.
What we’d like
to highlight through an article by the Jerusalem Center for Public
Affairs is how this barbaric caliphate views their place in the world
and what they’d like to accomplish. Below is the first in a three-part
series we are devoting to understanding the full article about
ISIS. It’s packed with very important information that we hope
you find helpful.
It’s important
that more Americans become educated about the growing jihadist threat.
Please share this email with everyone you know.
Sincerely,
Explaining the
Islamic State Phenomenon
Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah - Jerusalem Center for
Public Affairs
Part One:
- The Islamic State is a
terrorist state with almost all governing elements. Over the last
four years, it has developed from an extremist fringe and marginal
faction to become the strongest, most ferocious, best funded and
armed militia in the religious and ethnic war that is waged today
in Syria and Iraq.
- ISIS rules
today over a swath of land bigger than the United Kingdom, with a
population of almost 10 million. ISIS changed its name to the
Islamic State to illustrate that its goals are not limited to Iraq
and the countries of the Fertile Crescent.
- Since the
fall of Muslim empires and supremacy, Muslim scholars and
philosophers have tried to understand the reasons behind its
collapse. The conclusion of most was that Muslim civilization had
drifted away from the teachings of the Koran and adopted foreign
and heretical inputs that had destroyed its fabric. The remedy
they proposed was to return to “pure Islam” and reconstruct Muslim
society.
- After the
U.S. occupational authority in Baghdad disbanded the Iraqi army in
May 2003, thousands of well-trained Sunni officers were robbed of
their livelihood with the stroke of a pen, creating some of
America’s most bitter and intelligent enemies. In addition, many
Islamic State terrorists spent years in detention centers in Iraq
after 2003.
- Never in
the modern history of the Muslim world has a conflict drawn so
many jihadists, who seek to participate in the establishment of an
Islamic Caliphate to rule the world after the defeat in battle of
the Western powers and their local Arab allies.
- For many,
life in the Islamic State is better than in their country of
origin. This is particularly the case for Chechen fighters who
flock to the IS because the conditions of combat in Iraq and Syria
are less harsh than against the Russians.
Much has been
written about the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (the Levant) —
ISIS. Most of the analysts have looked at ISIS as another
terrorist organization, an al-Qaeda off-shoot, waging a guerrilla war
with cohorts of unorganized thugs. The Afghani-style gear, the pickup
trucks, the all black or army fatigue uniforms that most ISIS fighters
wear, the unshaven beards, the turbans, hoods and head “bandanas” with
Arabic inscriptions have added to the confusion.
Read Part One in its entirety here.
Part Two of this series will be emailed Wednesday,
February 3rd.
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