Analysis Of Naked In Baghdad By Anne Garrels

The United States is fronting the conflict against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; therefore, we feel strongly inclined to support the inhibition of online recruiting tactics used by ISIL. Previous attempts to thwart the online presence of ISIL have been misguided and incomprehensive - and have thus faltered against high expectations. Our reasoning for this stance is because in the past year alone, an estimated hundreds of recruits have joined ISIL through online mediums - additionally, ISIL has encouraged and coaxed recruits into committing domestic

I will argue that there is a statistically significant difference between those who chose to be a foreign fighter and those who chose to commit extremist acts within the United States on behalf of ISIS. This is due to the difference in the cost-benefit analysis of the two phenomenon that are weighed by a radicalized individual. I believe that more individuals that are radicalized will become foreign fighters because the benefit of physical inclusion and proximity to ISIS territory outweighs the cost of joining and being a part of a designated terrorist organization. While on the other hand, although a more feasible option, the benefit of commit a terrorist act on behalf of ISIS is not outweigh the cost of being labeled a terrorist within the United States. As my data set I will solely be focusing on those that have been convicted of charges related to ISIS controlling for age, gender, and time sentenced. Since there is no data on potential recruits I will attempt to explain my findings through different social movement theories to explain both the differences in the two phenomenon and the causes. I will measure my theories based on the plea of those charged with crimes related to ISIS since that is the best way to measure the cost benefit analysis conducted by the individuals. For reasons explained

The following is a brief explanation of the motivation of the Islamic Jihad Group. Included is a response to how the knowledge of the Islamic Jihad Group’s motivation might assist in planning counter terrorist strategy. Included are explanations as to how the motivations of terrorists differ from the motivations of other violent criminals and how cultural, socioeconomic, or political factors could lead a person to become a terrorist or criminal.

Over the past year or two, newspapers, radio stations, and news broadcasts have been covering the rapid ascent of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. But they have spread far beyond those material boundaries, reaching into the minds and homes of young people across the globe. These young people are led to believe that ISIS is saving the world, not harming it and that they must partake in the fight for religious dictatorship. They are instructed over the internet to perform acts of terrorism in their own country, known as domestic terrorism. Due to the dramatic increase in terrorist activity

This paper will seek to understand what really motivates terrorists to commit the acts that make them so infamous. We are assuming that the chief motivating factor behind the decisions of terrorist organizations is the political outcome of their acts balanced against the risk and collateral damage inflicted to achieve this end. We will also weigh in the appeal of terrorism on potential recruits in weak states and determine how the motivations of the group become the motivation of the individual and how this benefits the decentralized organization of terrorist organizations like al Qaeda.

This group’s roots trace back to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who set up Jihad in 2002. A year after the United States invaded Iraq, Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden, and founded Al-Qaeda in Iraq. After Zarqawi’s death his followers created an umbrella organization ISI, or Islamic State in Iraq. In 2003 the Islamic State renamed itself to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant. Now ISIS is using propaganda to recruit Westerners to their cause. Most people who are being recruited have no connection to ISIS, or Syria at all. There is no initiation process to join ISIS. One just has to be willing to commit acts of terror, and be a cold blooded killer. To be recruited one must find a Jihadi mentor. The

This ruthless terror organization has recruiting strategies that are alarmingly effective. According to a spokesperson for the Islamic Army, “ISIS recruits approximately 20 new members a day, and most of the foreign fighters are between 15-20 years old” (Lu). ISIS tries to recruit younger people because they are more susceptible to being influenced by their terrorist ways. USA Today estimates ISIS has between 20,000 and 25,000 fighters (Tomlinson). There is no doubt that ISIS employs experienced media and marketing people, who have helped to spread and control their message. They create recruitment videos to show future members all the positives they will receive when they join. On top of these recruitment videos, they promise the reward of “playing an important role in something larger than yourself,” along with addressing any concern a potential recruit might have (Lu). Their media team also produces an “online English-language magazine called Dabiq that publishes propagandist articles and reports aimed to glorify the Islamic State” (Lu). ISIS also uses social media, such as Twitter and Instagram, to spread its message to potential followers. This makes it more difficult for the government to prevent ISIS from spreading their word because so many people use these social media

“A recent US report concluded that ISIS is winning the social media war. The Internal State Department paints a dismal picture of the efforts by the Obama administration and its foreign allies to combat the Islamic State’s publicity machine” (Ali 10). Unlike other terrorists organizations like the Taliban or al- Qaeda, ISIS uses social media as a great tool to distribute their propaganda and to recruit their newest members. Also unlike these other terrorist organizations ISIS allows women to have significant roles in their projects, or they at least make these women who join feel that they are significant. ISIS lets their western female recruits have important positions in public roles on social media. “ISIS pays its supporters up to 10,000

ISIS is not only using the “peer to peer” method to gain members, they are using social media. ISIS is taking advantage of the easy access they have to the internet and many people around the world have to the internet. They are especially attracting a younger generation. The relentless recruitment of men and women, with an emphasis on women, from all over the world is because they plan to build their own nation (Vultaggio). ISIS has posted videos online, and that is where many of the recruitment occurs. They have posted numerous videos showing killings of Western journalists. In one video a boy, about eleven years old is the one shooting the gun. They are also using the foreign recruits to call out to others to join. For example, last year

Many individuals are influenced by religion to join the fight. Islamic extremism is another major reason these terrorist organizations have followers willing to fight for them. “Islamic extremists believe they are obligated to install this form of governance in Muslim-majority territories, countries, and eventually, the entire world. In the minds of Islamic extremists, they are promoting justice and freedom by instituting sharia” (“Understanding Islamist Extremism”). These extreme forms of Islam are what make up the central beliefs of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS. They use their religious affiliations to justify their actions. Acts of Islamic extremism include terrorism, human rights abuses, the advancement of sharia-based governance, and overall hostility to the West (“Understanding Islamist Extremism”). While not all extremists use terrorism, it is common among the majority of the

ISIS has had made many effects happen the in present world. One of them is recruiting people from outside nations using social media to come and join. Presidential candidate Donald Trump once said, “ISIS is recruiting through the internet. ISIS is using the internet better than we are using the internet, and it was our idea.” This quote from Trump is

I found many perspectives that this group obtains. In using a functionalist perspective, we see how the groups use moral regulations and also their religious faith to teach an ideology and propagandize their people under them. This small group in sociality works and is trying to grow large and ISIS is doing just that through population growth. ISIS continues to recruit in many ways. Many people in this group have roles. Everyone becomes dependent on one another for their continued well being. People have become specialized which forces mutual interdependent, this interdependence makes sure the the community will not fall apart.

ISIS preys on teenagers that feel that they are not wanted or do not “belong”.“They’re often times searching for an identity, because what the jihadis are actually pushing is a specific narrative, which is: Your people are being oppressed in this place called Syrian; your government is doing nothing; we’re the only ones who are actually going to help you out,” (Peritz)“Why don’t you join the fight?”. They offer a home for teens who feel they don't have family, they often lower them in by social media and propaganda ISIS also tries to lower in teens who are unsure on their

This paper explores some of the techniques and tools that are used by terrorist leaders to try to influence and change the mindsets of people. Political and religious motived techniques that are used by terrorist leaders are discussed in the paper. The paper also discuses how terrorist leaders have used the internet to gain support, influence, and recruit new members,

“The emergence of terrorism in a new form has sent tremors of anxiety around the globe. ISIS, the self-proclaimed Islamic state and caliphate, has redefined the meaning of terror by combining relentless barbarism with military skill, religious bigotry, unprecedented affluence and the shrewd use of video and social media” (FulFord, 2014). If you do not join them, you are against them and they will use any measure necessary even beyond our thinking to strike fear into anyone that chooses to oppose them and their ideology. They will go to any extreme to accomplish their goal even if it means to take you and the rest of the world out one area at a time. They are estimated to have at least 31,000 fighters (DePetris, 2014). One of the major things that stands out for IS is that they are able to not only capture large territories, but to maintain those territories and establish Islamic caliphate. Not only did they do this, but also they accomplished this in the very heart of the Arabic world. This is something no other terrorist organization has been able to accomplish. They did this through several massive killings of over 200 plus people at one time, beheadings and executions (DePetris, 2014). This by far appears to be the most dangerous group of terrorist in the world