ISIS A Religion

Introduction:

The question raised from current events around the world has left the world pondering is ISIS a religion? To answer this I have gone through intense research to find out the truth. I have used ten sources to present my answer to this world dilemma. ISIS uses Islam to show western nations that yes, we are a religion. In realty, ISIS is an organization of fundamental extremist using Islam as a shield that will protect their motives to start World War III.

Blakemore, Brian, and Imran Awan. Extremism, Counter-terrorism and Policing. Farnham,
Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. EBook Collection. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.

This book aims to bring together a diverse range of multidisciplinary ideas to explore the degree of radicalism within the ongoing
context of society living in fear everyday, heightened by alert due to the power of war and terrorism. The authors begin by examining the connotation of radicalism as a definition and the debate over its terminology. They also include an in depth study of the different behavior’s and motivations individuals seen as terrorist’s express. ISIS has conquered the region, led by men who had spent time in US confinement hubs during the war in Iraq in addition to Bucca, the US also ran Camp Cropper, near Baghdad airport, and, for an ill-fated 18 months early in the war, Abu Ghraib prison on the capital’s western outskirts. Many of those released from these prisons – and indeed, several senior American officers who ran detention operations – have admitted that the prisons had an incendiary effect on the uprising.
This book is relevant, due to it description of the term extremist, and what quality’s in which they possess.

Coolsaet, R. (2011). Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge: European and American
Experiences. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.

One of the major changes in the policy environment that has occurred since is that searching for ‘root causes’ is no longer limited to Europe. In the beginning, speaking about root causes was very much taboo in the United States. In Europe it was, on the contrary, considered to be of paramount importance to understand what drove individuals towards terrorist violence – so as to be able to cleanse the breeding ground of terrorism. It was one of the many transatlantic differences of opinion on terrorism and counterterrorism. But it no longer is. American and European police, policy and academic discussions on this topic have now become standard. This is relevant, because I believe the government is always trying to change its policy to control the war, and the world. Coolsaet, R. Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge: European and American
Experiences. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011. EBook Collection. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

This book addresses two issues that remain largely unexplored in contemporary terrorism studies. It rehabilitates the historical and comparative analysis as a way to grasp the essence of terrorism, including its jihadi strand. After ten years after the 11 September 2001 attacks, jihadi terrorism has largely lost its juggernaut luster. It now mostly resembles a patchwork of self-radicalizing local groups with international contacts but without any central organizational control.

Gilsinan, Kathy. "Today’s Terrorists Want to Inspire." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company,
14 Sept. 2015. Web. 22 Oct. 2015.

In this online news article Kathy Gilsinan claims that, what ISIS is doing right now seems to flashback to some of the early academic work on terrorism as a tactic in guerrilla warfare, as a step toward something else toward assembling a conventional army, and then overthrowing the state. At the time, the subject of “terrorism” didn’t attract much scholarly attention. There are hundreds of ways to define “terrorism,” and they tend to involve violence committed by a non-state actor to achieve some kind of political objective. This is relevant to my topic of terrorism, because the author answers tough questions about ISIS and terrorism in general.

Imre, Robert, T. Brian Mooney, and Benjamin Clarke. Responding to Terrorism: Political, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2008. EBook Collection. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

This book provides a cross-disciplinary analysis – political, philosophical and legal – in a single text and will appeal to readers interested in studying this phenomenon from all perspectives. The volume covers the full spectrum of issues, including torture, terrorism causes and cures, legal issues, globalization and counter-terrorism. The authors bring their individual specialties to the fore in a concise and easy to follow format. Comprehensive and well informed, responding to Terrorism will appeal to a variety of disciplines including sociology, politics, security studies, philosophy, international law and religious studies.

Lister, Tim. "ISIS: The First Terror Group to Build an Islamic State? - CNN.com." CNN.
Cable News Network, 12 June 2014. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.

In this world famous news website Tim Lister references ISIS, which wants to establish an Islamic caliphate empire spreading across the region of the middle east. Currently ISIS controls hundreds of square miles where state authority has literally been evaporated. The organization, ignores international borders and has a presence all the way from Syria's Mediterranean coast to south of Baghdad. From keys to its survival, and funding, Mr. Lister explains very well. ISIS has begun imposing its Sharia law in the towns it controls. Boys and girls must be separated at school; women must follow and wear the hijab in public. Sharia courts often dispense brutal justice, music is banned and the fast is enforced during Ramadan. This news article is relevant, due to its description of ISIS and the power in which it has. Mandal, Manas K., and Updesh Kumar. Countering Terrorism: Psychosocial Strategies. New
Delhi: Sage Publications Pvt., 2012. EBook Collection. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

This book goes beyond the obvious and commonsensical notions and discusses the relevant issues from interdisciplinary perspectives, informed by theoretical stances of not only psychological sciences, but other social sciences like political science, criminology, military, and sociology as well.
The volume contains 18 chapters by expert authors with diverse cultural backgrounds and provides a wide ranging canvas for multifaceted understanding of the terror phenomenon.

Proença, J. T., & Aurélio, D. P. (2011). Terrorism: Politics, Religion, Literature. Newcastle, UK:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

In this book, several key authors contribute volumes of essays that deal with the definitions of terrorism, what qualifies as terrorism and Igor Priomoratz’s dictum that there are really only two philosophical questions about terrorism: first, “What is it?” and, second, “Can it ever be justified?” these ontological and ethical questions. This book will help me examine, the purpose of terrorism by analyzing and taking different approaches on these issues. This book is relevant for my research, due to wide knowledge and interpretation of terrorism, which will help aid me in drafting this annotated
bibliography.

Smelser, Neil J., Faith Mitchell, and National Research Council (U.S.). Terrorism: Perspectives
From the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Washington, D.C.: National Academies, 2002.
EBook Collection. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

This book focuses on the limits of scientific understanding of terrorism and the capacity to develop policies to deal with it became even more evident. The objective of this report is to bring behavioral and social science perspectives to bear on the nature, determinants, and domestic responses to contemporary terrorism as a way of making theoretical and practical knowledge more adequate to the task. It also identifies areas of research priorities for the behavioral and social sciences.

Stern, Jessica. "Obama and Terrorism." Foreign Affairs 94.5 (2015): 62-70. Business Source
Complete. Web. 5 Nov. 2015.

The article discusses the counterterrorism policies of the U.S. during the administration of U.S. president Barack Obama. It compares and contrasts the policies of Obama and former U.S. president George W. Bush, discusses the use of drone aircraft strikes by the Obama administration against Salafi jihadist groups such as Islamic State (ISIS) and al Qaeda during the Obama administration. This article examines the implications of the end of U.S. involvement in the Iraq
War.