We are talking about ISIS here and their RECENT terrorist attacks. They have an agenda against the West, and have made and carried out specific threats against us. I'm not sure why the discussion keeps getting re-routed.
"The
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (
ISIL;
Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام), also known as the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (
ISIS,
/ˈaɪsɨs/), the
Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham,
[28] or simply
Islamic State (
IS),
[29] is a
Wahhabi/
Salafi jihadist extremist militant group and self-proclaimed
Islamic state and
caliphate, which is led by and mainly composed of
Sunni Arabs from
Iraq and
Syria. As of March 2015, it has control over territory occupied by ten million people in Iraq and Syria, and through loyal local groups, has control over small areas of
Libya,
Nigeriaand
Afghanistan. The group also operates or has affiliates in other parts of the world, including
North Africa and
South Asia.
[30][31][32][33][34][35]
The group is known in Arabic as
ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām, leading to the acronym
Da'ish or
Daesh (داعش, Arabic pronunciation:
[ˈdaːʕiʃ]),
[36][37] the Arabic equivalent of "ISIL". On 29 June 2014, the group proclaimed itself to be a
worldwide caliphate, with
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being named its
caliph, and renamed itself
ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah (الدولة الإسلامية, "Islamic State" (IS)). As a caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide, and that "the legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organisations, becomes null by the expansion of the khilāfah's [caliphate's] authority and arrival of its troops to their areas".
[28][38][39][40] The
United Nations has held ISIL responsible for human rights abuses and
war crimes, and
Amnesty International has reported
ethnic cleansing by the group on a "historic scale". The group has been
designated a terrorist organisation by the United Nations, the
European Union and member states, the
United States,
India,
Indonesia,
Israel,
Turkey,
Saudi Arabia,
Syria and other countries. Over 60 countries are directly or indirectly
waging war against ISIL.
The group originated as
Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999, which pledged allegiance to
al-Qaeda in 2004. The group participated in the
Iraqi insurgency that followed the March
2003 invasion of Iraq by Western forces. In January 2006, it joined other Sunni insurgent groups to form the
Mujahideen Shura Council, which proclaimed the formation of the
Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in October 2006. After the
Syrian Civil War began in March 2011, the ISI, under the leadership of al-Baghdadi, sent delegates into Syria in August 2011. These fighters named themselves
Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahli ash-Shām—
al-Nusra Front—and established a large presence in Sunni-majority areas of Syria, within the
governorates of
Ar-Raqqah,
Idlib,
Deir ez-Zor, and
Aleppo. In April 2013, al-Baghdadi announced the merger of the ISI with al-Nusra Front and that the name of the reunited group was now the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). However,
Abu Mohammad al-Julani and
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leaders of al-Nusra and al-Qaeda respectively, rejected the merger. After an eight-month power struggle, al-Qaeda cut all ties with ISIL on 3 February 2014, citing its failure to consult and "notorious intransigence". In Syria, the group has conducted ground attacks on both government forces and rebel factions in the Syrian Civil War. The group gained prominence after it drove Iraqi government forces out of key cities in western Iraq in an offensive initiated in early 2014. Iraq's territorial loss almost caused a collapse of the Iraqi government and prompted a renewal of US military action in Iraq.
[3][41][42][43]
ISIL is adept at social media, posting Internet videos of
beheadings of soldiers, civilians, journalists and aid workers, and is known for its
destruction of cultural heritage sites.
Muslim leaders around the world have condemned ISIL's ideology and actions, arguing that the group has strayed from the path of true
Islam and that its actions do not reflect the religion's true teachings or virtues.
[44][45] The group's adoption of the name "Islamic State" and idea of a caliphate have been widely criticised, with the United Nations,
NATO, various governments, and mainstream Muslim groups rejecting both."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
"A
worldwide caliphate is the concept of a single
theocratic one-
world government as proposed by some Muslims, in particular
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
[1][2] In 2014, Baghdadi claimed to have succeeded in the creation of a worldwide caliphate.
[3] On April 8, 2006, the
Daily Times of Pakistan reported that at a rally held in Islamabad the militant organization
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan called for the formation of a Worldwide Caliphate, which was to begin in
Pakistan.
[4]
Hizb ut-Tahrir, a
pan-Islamic political organization, believes that all Muslims should unite in a worldwide
caliphate[5][6] that will "challenge, and ultimately conquer, the West."
[7] While extremists often commit acts of violence in pursuit of this goal, it is alleged to lack appeal among a wider Islamic audience.
[8] Brigitte Gabriel argues that the goal of a worldwide caliphate is central to the enterprise of
radical Islam.
[9]"
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