The Similarities And Differences And Characteristics Of Nazi And ISIS

On August 2, 1934, Hitler was named Führer, or supreme leader, of the German people. It was unveiled to world that Hitler had achieved total power in Germany. Years went by as Hitler and the Nazis bullied their way into making the German people praise and obey them. But on September 3, 1939, the biggest bloodshed and obliteration would begin. It is known as World War II. Five years, eight months and six days was the duration of this deadly spree. More than 40 million people were killed, all for the fanaticism and madness of one man, Adolf Hitler.

It is important to realize and clarify that there is a difference between ISIS and Muslims. According to the Muslim faith, Islam, we do not condone any killings. In the Quran there are many verses that speak about how bad it is to kill any soul that talks, walks, or crawls. One verse in particular that always stands out to me because of the society we live in now is, “…If any one killed a person, it would be as if he killed the whole of mankind; and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole of mankind…” - The Holy Quran (Chapter Five, Verse 32). Even with a small killing of a butterfly or an ant is not permitted. The reason you, or anyone should care is because you live in as society where all cultures and religions are integrated into one society. America is very diverse, and especially New York, where we live in. Muslims work with everyone in the community, and it is important to differentiate who are the real Muslims are, verses the ones who use our religion as a disguise. For this essay, I used two major news outlets, which are, FOX news and CNN (among a few more). I chose those two in particular because it speaks about the republican views on these political issues that are roaring in America.

Who is ISIS? They are a Sunni terrorist group that originates from the also Sunni terrorist group, al Qaeda, but specifically the Iraq faction, al Qaeda in Iraq. They are specifically a Sunni version of Islam called Salafism, which means Pious forefathers. The forefathers are the prophet himself and the earliest adherents. The individuals who are part of this group look to these forefathers as examples in behavior and everything else. They desire to follow their actions and lifestyles exactly. The original leader of this group was killed and a new leader rose to power, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who was an experienced fighter. They lost their power in the Sunni Awakening in 2007, and then found a chance to regain power in Syria in 2011. By

But, ISIS on the other hand requires territory to remain legitimate. This group is also very traditional when it comes to their religion and practices. While Al Qaeda was a modern group with modern political views, ISIS has a tendency to stick to old fashioned Islam, speaking in terms and phrases that Islamic people now don’t understand or relate to. Their leaders have said that they will not and cannot abandon the governing precepts that were embedded in Islam by the prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers (Wood, 2015). They believe that out of entire Islamic culture, they are the most radical and accurate Islamists there are because they do refer back to the origination of Islam. All of their decisions, actions, etc. are referred back to and based off of the Prophetic Methodology which is the following of the prophecy by Muhammad. Muslims have a book called the Koran that is filled with specific rules and guidelines that are to be followed. It states that crucifixion is one of the only punishments for anyone who objects or disagrees with the Islamic, Sunni religion. The ninth chapter orders them to fight Christians and Jews until they pay their Jizya or tax with complete submission. The prophet Muhammad is the one who created the Koran and all that it entails. ISIS takes the Koran very seriously. More seriously than any Islamic group ever has. It’s almost as if they have an obsession with following the rules that Muhammad has set

The Al-Qaeda is the deadliest terrorist group in the world responsible for the worst attacks across the globe. The group is Wahhabi organization that was founded by Osama Bin Laden alongside Abdullah Azzam and other influential militants. When Osama Bin Laden died, it was a big drawback to the group, however, was a big setback for the prominent terrorist group, it still managed to maintain its grounds and grow stronger over the years (Bergen, 2011). Al-Qaeda is responsible for the April 2007 Ashoura massacre and also contributed to the September 11th attack on American soil. Al-Qaeda has very many training grounds spread across the globe with the largest one been the Khalden training camp located in Shorabak in Pakistan that was apparently destroyed by the American military. The core lesson taught at the training camps is the interpretation of the Muslim Sharia law. The Al-Qaeda group has one mission, vision, and objective, to form global jihad to unite all Muslims across the globe (Shahzad, 2011). The Al-Qaeda group has a characteristic way of carrying its attacks via the use suicide bombers who are sent to carry out suicide missions. Al-Qaeda also owns numerous aircraft such as Boeing 727s as well as multiple executive jets.

Isis is a terrorist organization made up of Shi’ite Muslims yearning to create an independent Islamic state in the Middle East. These terrorists go to any extent of violence in hopes of connecting the holy lands throughout Middle Eastern countries. Isis members are fighting for religious purposes hoping to secure land where the Muslim religion would dominate. Isis brings danger throughout the world with its political history, the military tactics it employs, and its attraction to foreign members.

Sunni communities in Iraq and Syria felt alienated by Shiite- and Alawite-led governments. ISIS played on these feelings, pushing forward a sense of victimhood and giving these communities a means to feel in control through violence. They also advanced a twisted interpretation of Islam that found ripe fodder among disenfranchised youth in the area. ISIS partnered with the lieutenants of Saddam Hussein's secular regime to perfect their tools of repression along the same lines that Saddam used. After the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, the atrophied Iraqi army was over-equipped and underprepared to deal with ISIS. Much of the weaponry ended up in ISIS's hands. Before ISIS formally controlled Mosul, it would run a racketeering business under the nose of the Iraqi government. Businesses and individuals had to pay them a "protection fee" to stay safe. It is the Middle East, so oil is always involved. While technically shut out from the international markets, ISIS could and did still find markets for its oil (usually in neighboring Turkey whose government was sympathetic to many of the Syrian

The beginnings of ISIS,a Sunni jihadist group,can be traced back to 1999, when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian jihadist, started the group . In 2010, after ISIS’s second leader was assassinated, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,a former scholar of Islamic studies and a US war prisoner back in 2004,took over and got the group back on track. He replenished their partially-killed-off leadership with dozens of Saddam’s old Ba’athist military personnel, who brought key experience to the group. Then in 2011, when the Syrian Civil War broke out, ISIS joined in as a rebel force,which helped to train and battle-harden the group. ISIS’s behavior in Syria was so brutal and severe that they even started creeping out the other groups, including al-Qaeda, who finally had a tantrum in early 2014 and cut all ties with ISIS. The ISIS, like all terrorist organizations, arose out of systems of discontent that made extremist ideology appealing. The extremist ideology of ISIS is an aberration of Islam marked by radical apocalyptic thought. The ISIS’s position is antithetical to Shia Islam, which believes that just as a prophet is appointed by God alone, only God has the prerogative to appoint the successor to his prophet (the caliphate).

ISIS has become so powerful in the region that it is in by: seizing towns near major supply routes, critical infrastructure and border crossings; oil revenues have made ISIS the wealthiest terror groups in history; having a strong military fighting in both Iraq and Syria.

Much of the world’s oil supply comes from this region, and if ISIS is allowed to take control of it the global economy would greatly suffer.

ISIS is identified as a Salafi extremist group, which refers to a very conservative outlook on the Islamic religion. With these abhorrent views of non-Muslims, many of the members have resorted to domestic violence, including suicide bombings and other forms of provoking fear in the innocent. Countries such as Iraq and Syria have made multiple attempts to combat ISIS, but they are currently deemed too powerful to be seized from power. A number of factors contribute to the horrific actions that are executed by the Islamic State, such as the disarmament of Saddam Hussein’s military back in the early 2000’s. Once the former Iraqi soldiers realized that they could not fight for their country, they transitioned into ISIS fighters and began to advocate for a much different cause- one that would affect millions of lives all over the

A group within these that tends to be causing most of the activity between the media and popular culture is ISIS. ISIS is a group of Muslims who have developed radical beliefs as well as a hatred for the United States since their invasion in Afghanistan in 2003. Since this time, the radical terrorists have been able to spread larger and larger by focusing their emphasis on the ideology of eradicating the Sunni religion from Iraq and Syria. This idea is popular due to Iraq’s Shia majority (Laub, 2016). Expanding also may have been assisted by a 73% increase in Muslims from 2010 to 2050. This is by far the most rapidly growing religion in the entire world (Lipka, 2016). ISIS is also able to use the region's resources to its advantage as oil is the source of it’s primary income. A more deviant form of income for the Islamic terrorist groups is ransom payments. They obtain this by kidnapping important individuals, such as journalists, and demand a payment by threatening that individual's life. In 2014, ISIS made twenty million United States dollars off of these ransoms. It is no shock that Islamic terrorist groups, such as ISIS, affect not only those in Iraq and Syria. Nearing countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen to have sworn allegiance to Baghdadi. Unfortunately the threat of radical

“In 2014, ISIS controlled more than 34,000 square miles in Syria and Iraq, from the Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad” (ISIS fast Facts). When ISIS overran Mosul, a city Iraq, last year it stole “$450 million” in gold and cash (Inside the $2 Billion War ISIS Machine).Aarja Report gives a very detailed description of ISIS control,

Lost amidst ISIS' recent killing spree is the news that ISIS' self-declared Caliphate has lost a third of its territory and half its manpower. Money is running out. Moral has collapsed. ISIS has been forced to execute its soldiers to maintain order in the ranks.

Terrorists gain money through illegal activities such as front companies, drug trades, and kidnappings. Terrorist leaders such as Osama Bin Laden have been known to own chain stores throughout the Middle East, using them not only for money laundering but as a safe route to move and store weapons (Kaplan). In addition to this, these organizations tend to share in illegal oil profits and loot banks and market goods. Not only are these methods illegal, they are unethical, too. Kidnapping has been found to produce high profits for many of these groups. Holding hostages for ransom forces desperate family members into giving away huge sums of money in order to keep their loved ones alive. While the ways in which groups like these attain their money is disturbing, families are desperate to feed their children and themselves. On the other hand, many people are unaware of these illegal methods and know only of the charities that support the terrorist organizations. Charity is a big aspect of Islam, and there are thousands of charities through the Middle East. While as few as a hundred charities may sponsor terrorism, these are some of the wealthiest charities (Kaplan). The high amount of money flowing into these organizations leaves little for the rest of the population who have almost no way of attaining income at