What Is The Potential Of The Islamic State Attacks?

A- Here we can now see that all Osama Bin Laden ever wanted was the death of all the Americans which he had clearly stated to the reporters in one of his interviews in 1998.

In his 1996 FATWA, Usama bin Laden placed personal responsibility upon each individual Muslim to unify and fight oppressive forces, particularly the United States. With this FATWA comes the distinction of the “near” and “far” enemy, an innovative philosophy utilized by bin Laden and Al Qaeda that illustrates the overarching oppressive nature of the United States to Salafi Jihadist sympathizers. Integrating this ideology into the Salafi Jihadist movement is particularly useful for terrorist organizations, as their fighters—particularly their suicide bombers—are ideologically validated for their actions, and are confident that they will receive a reward in the afterlife should they strike against the enemy.

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

The main leader of Al Qaeda is Ayman al Zawahiri, who was born in 1951 in Cairo. He comes from an Egyptian middle class family. Even though he was trained to be a doctor, during his teens he became extremely involved in Islamist groups. He decided to join the Islamic Jihad in 1973. At this time, the Jihad aimed at overthrowing the government in Egypt. He was accused and imprisoned in 1981 for having something to do with the assasination of Anwar al Sadat, the president of Egypt. He went to Pakistan in 1985 to assist in the fight against Soviet troops fighting in Afghanistan. He decided to join Osama bin Laden in 1998 and became one of the most important spokespersons for al Qaeda’s ideaology during the 2000s. When bin Laden was killed

Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which controls territory mainly in Iraq and Syria, was formed in April 2013, it was grown out of al Qaeda. The main ideology behind the organisation is based on Islamism, Salafism and Salafi Jihadism. ISIS was originally founded by Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Iraq. Before ISIL was established, Zarqawi has set up an al Qaeda franchise in Iraq during the occupation of country by the Americans. Later, however, Zarqawi became so extreme, his brutal actions in Iraq offended the jihadists, and led to al Qaeda disavowing him.

A month after the Al-Qaeda led bombing of the World Trade Center Towers, former President George W. Bush formally declared a global war on terror. A “war against all those who [sought] to expose terror, and a war against those governments that support or shelter them.” Over seventeen years have passed since the inception of this extremely scrutinized statement, and the United States has yet to make substantial progress towards eradicating terrorism, despite spending nearly 5.6 trillion dollars since 9/11 on U.S. Wars in the Middle East through the 2018 fiscal year (Neta 2017, 2). Major figures such as Al-Qaeda’s founder Osama Bin-Laden have been killed (Phillips, 2011), but yet the problem still persists.

People too commonly forget that the story of Al-Qaeda is very much the story of Osama Bin Laden: so much of the development and evolution of Al-Qaeda truly is dependent on this one man. Thus, this means that their narratives are forever intertwined. "The primary founder of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was born in July 1957, the seventeenth of twenty sons of a Saudi construction magnate of Yemeni origin. Many Saudis are conservative Sunni Muslims, and bin Laden appears to have adopted militant Islamist views while studying at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia" (Katzman, 2005).

Some people say that ISIS is the successor to the group that was known as al-Qaeda in Iraq and was so brutal in its methods that it drove Sunni tribes, with help and financial incentives from the U.S. military group, to turn in 2006. This group formed/ grew out of al-Qaeda (AQI) but has been disavowed by al-Qaeda ever since. ISIS officially formed April of 2013 and has

ISIS is currently a substantial threat to the Iraqi people as well as globally. The Iraqi politician and Human Rights Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani states that "ISIS is not just an Iraqi phenomenon, but it is a transnational phenomenon that poses an imminent danger to all countries of the world, it defies all human rights principles and international law," (Moore, "Isis Declared 'Global Threat' as UN Mulls Emergency 'War Crimes' Investigation") The reason why this is now becoming an international threat is because ISIS has been able to grow quickly due to the fact that they are able to effortlessly obtain fighters from across the globe. ISIS was able to accomplish this through the use of social media by acquiring popularity within

A young boy, Abu Musab, was so inspired by another man’s ideas, that he then decided to spread them to other Islamic states. Therefore, in 1999, Abu Musab moved out of Afghanistan to go to Iraq and laid the foundation of what eventually grew into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). To start his vision of ISIS, Abu Musab started to kill anyone who opposed him, including local Muslims. ISIS, is also called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). They have terrorized Iraq and Syria to establish an Islamic state in the Middle East ruled by strict shariah law. The group is made up of Sunni Muslims and foreign jihadists.

ISIS has had a few different events in its history that let it to where it is today. Al-Zarqawi was in Afghanistan in 1999 setting up training camps to train terrorist. After the 9/11 attacks, he left Afghanistan to find refuge in Iran ("The Historical Roots and Stages in the Development of ISIS."). In 2002, he left Iran to go to the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. While he was there, he worked with a Kurdish jihadi Islamist organization that was known as the Ansar al-Islam. Al-Zarqawi decided to create his own

ISIS formed in 2000 in various name, Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) was its first name but finally, in 2013 it became ISIS with an ambitious objective

No one knows how many people have joined ISIS. It probably estimates to about 10,000 to 40,000 people. They mostly come from the Middle Eastern countries. ISIS mostly recruits people through the internet. Especially social media. They are reaching out to younger people all over the world. I think how they get them is telling them everything they want to hear. They can be anything they want, they can do anything they want, and they can be anyone they

Islamic state of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) also rendered as Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as the Arabic phrase Da’esh and self-described as Islamic State was formed in April 2003 but was established in 2006, growing out of al- Qaeda in Iraq. It has since been abjured by al- Qaeda. Isis has a treasury of 2 billion making it the richest terrorist organization also it has become one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Syria and Iraq because of it vast amount of fighters estimated from 7,000-12,000 with 3,000-5,000 being foreign fighters. The leader of ISIS is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Not many people know about but it is believed that he was born north of Baghdad, in 1971 and joined the armed rebellion against the US that erupted in Iraq soon after the 2003 US-led invasion.

The European colonialism, and the British, greatly helped the rise of Islam. The European colonialism gave them the strength to rise against their oppressors. The Wahhabi movement was started as a result of the European colonialism. The British helped groups of Islam by giving them weapons as well as the financial support that they needed as well as aiding them in setting up a central form of government. Muhammad Iqbal called for a bold reinterpretation of Islam that would take the best of Western ideas, but recast them according to Islamic principles and values. He wanted to reconstruct the religious thought in Islam so that it would be more significant in the modern world. On the other hand, Osama bin Laden pushed his ideas on the people of Islam and used great force. He created a group called Al Qaeda, whose purpose was to drive the U.S. out of Arabia, overthrow the Saudi government, liberate Islam’s holy sites, and support revolutionary groups around the world. Osama bin Laden was among the founders who issued a fatwa that states that it is the duty of all Muslims to kill U.S. citizens and their allies.