The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) aims to bring Muslim-inhabited regions under its political control through adopting hardline beliefs from Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. ISIS rejects Western interpretations and uses sophisticated social media and gruesome propaganda videos to spread its extremist Sunni ideologies and terrorize those who do not follow its beliefs. The United States is currently waging war against ISIS in response to beheadings of American journalists and civilians.

1. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) self-proclaims its status as a caliphate,
which declares superior religious and political authority over all Muslims in the
world.
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2. The principles of ISIS are adopted from hard-line beliefs of Al-Qaeda, which
emerged from the ideology of Muslim Brotherhood, aspiring to return the early
days of Islam.
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3. It aims to bring Muslim-inhabited regions of the world under its political control –
territories include Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus, and a southern
part of Turkey.
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4. President Barack Obama of the United States and the “Caliph” Abu Bakr al-
Baghdadi are constantly conflicted – the U.S. currently waging war on the Islamic
State in September 2014.
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5. The ISIS’s use of social media is known to be “probably the most sophisticated
than that of most of US companies” as it makes use of various social networking
sites to call out for more public attention.
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6. In August and September 2014, the ISIS released two propaganda video
showing the beheading of US photojournalists they kept in hostage, saying that it
was carried out in revenge for US bombings.
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7. “I’m back Obama...because of your insistence on continuing your bombings…so
just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike
the necks of your people.”
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8. The ISIS’s propaganda tactics are effective in having the images to terrorize
whoever doesn’t follow their beliefs and to glorify their spree of terror.
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9. The ISIS rejects any Western interpretation of religious and political policies. It
promotes religious violence to whoever stands against its Sunni extremist
ideologies.
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10. Gruesome picture of ISIS’s continuous executions, including crucifixions and
beheadings of children, of non-Muslims in Iraq and Syria in an attempt to
eradicate Christian faith.
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11. The ISIS are also committing sexual violence crimes. It took more than 3000
Kurdish Yezidi women, who have been raped, killed, and sold as sex slaves
madre now to other Islamic Arabs.
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12. The struggle for innocent people to live through grotesque violence is absurd.
International awareness is essential to stop any more human rights violations and
war crimes allegedly committed by ISIS.
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