Black Flags By Joby Warrick Summary

ISIS is nothing but a big group of thugs that uses their “religious” beliefs, and almost rules some would say to get their followers to commit these terrorizing and world shaking crimes every day. They use their beliefs to almost in a way justify their actions to their followers, and it unfortunately works. It is perceived that they know what they’re doing is not actually under their religious codes, but they are fine with that. In Black Flags, by Joby Warrick, he talks about the mayhem that is caused between individuals and their groups because of their religious beliefs they follow. Warrick talks about how Sunni Muslims lack a centralized religious hierarchy, which is why they cannot settle theological debates. They have higher ranking
Wouldn’t it be easier to just act as a couple than to go through with a ceremony? Not to Zarqawi. “To the Islamists, it is forbidden for a woman to travel unless accompanied by her husband or a close male relative.” It was a strict Zarqawi rule that she couldn’t travel to perform a suicide bomb for Zarqawi without being forced into a marriage by him. He makes up his own rules that he refers to as beliefs and forces his followers to do whatever he says such as a dictator. You could also argue that Zarqawi is not a dictator, and that he is more of a religiously superior man to a large group of followers. This could be supported, but he has his own plethora of rules, and has many people that would die at his cost. He is not a religious figure as he is very cold and foul person. It is one thing to want to die for a religious figure that is promoting positive and old traditional beliefs. But, you should not be supporting someone who is changing the beliefs to justify his actions and ruining and killing innocent lives so he can be successful and dominant. Islamic religion is strictly against murder and even more so, terrorism. How could a man trying to be a very “religious person and leader” while supporting and promoting