ISIS News Analysis Paper
ISIS News Analysis Paper
Did you know that the most powerful terristic group could be only a few steps away from becoming a state according to the United Nations? Who are they you may ask? ISIS that’s who. This is a very big issue that is going on in the world. A lot of people don't know much about ISIS; I am hoping to change that. Throughout this paper I am going to touch on a few things; why I chose to research ISIS, how the media portrays ISIS, what they stand for, and the future of ISIS itself.
One of the reason I chose the topic of ISIS for my news analysis is because during my time here at ISU I took a class on the Middle East and we covered ISIS a little bit. Although it was short it got my mind whirling, I wanted to do more research, this assignment was the perfect excuse. Currently, I have been keeping an eye on the news, my brother is going to study abroad this summer he will be in Europe and with the many attacks I want to make sure that he will be safe during his time overseas. He will be in …show more content…
Paris, so when they were attacked I was torn; Happy that he wasn’t there and safe at school, but Sad for the people that did lose their lives in the attack.
One thing about the growing age of technology ISIS uses is social and news media. Although I believe people don’t always get the whole story. Many people think that ISIS is just a bunch of crazy people that are killing random people, which is simply not the case. With every problem created there is a reason that problem emerged. People and things don’t do things for no reason.
The next news article I found is from Time.com. It is titled “Four Reasons the War Against ISIS is Working and One Reason it’s Not. The article starts by telling us that ISIS has more resources then any terrorist group in the world. They also tell us that ISIS has more resources than any terrorist group of all time. ISIS controls more than 2 trillion dollars worth of assets, this includes guns, tanks, and cars. One big revenue that this group has is oil. They make a lot of money from oil because they control many of the oil reserves in the Middle East. But with the increase in bombings, after the Paris attack their income has drooped dramatically do to the targeting of oil reserves and many other ISIS assets for that matter. ISIS territory has been expanding rapidly, and for a short while didn’t seem like it could be stopped until recently. Recently they have been losing territory, this means they are not as strong as they once were; they are getting weaker. In the past ISIS was getting over 200 foreign fighters every month, this quickly began to add up. It was not until recently that the number started to drop so dramatically, now they just barely hit the 200s each month, this is still progress in their eyes but not enough. The use of social media has been a huge advantage to ISIS. They are using the media to draw peoples’ attention to become new soldiers, take the girl from Alabama; she up rooted herself to become apart of ISIS. The biggest social media site they are using is twitter. The company has terminated more than one hundred thousand accounts due to suspicion of terrorism activity. We have made a lot of great victories and we’re doing a good job trying to slow ISIS down, but we need to do better and bring this terrorist movement to an end.
First I am going to tell you a little about ISIS and what they stand for.
ISIS is known as the Islamic state, they are a not just a group of crazy people but they are want to be recognized as a real state by the United Nations. To be a state, you need a controlled territory, people, and a form of laws. They have a controlled territory, people, and laws; they also have many people to implement the laws. The big difference between ISIS and a place like Illinois is that the laws that they are implementing are religious based. For example, there is a law to not drink do drugs simply because their religion bands it. There are many laws that ISIS implements that are similar to ones we have in the United States, some not so much. Their rules are controlled by religion something that doesn’t control our country. From an article written by Jessica Elgot in the Huffington Post she listed a few of these laws, below are some of the few that I found to be most
interesting. o Women are told they should not go outside unless necessary, because their place is to provide stability at home. o They must wear full, wide Islamic dress o Stealing or looting will result in the amputation of limbs o Criminals can be crucified (this law quotes a verse from the Quran) o Muslims must participate in group prayers at mosques 'on time' o Muslims will be well-treated, unless they are allied with oppressors o Drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes are banned o Rival political or armed groups are also banned o Police and military officers will be given the chance to repent o Apostasy is punishable by death and carrying flags, except those of the Islamic state, is not allowed o Graves and shrines are forbidden, and will be destroyed
Now that you know a little bit about what ISIS stands for, lets talk about what they has been doing recently. I read an article from Fox News; it was about an ISIS ambush that ended in the death of a navy seal. He was trying to save people from gunfire and ended up getting shot himself. There was a team of eleven navy seals and only one died. The battle took place in a small Christian village in the Middle East, this village got the attention of ISIS; they decided it needed to go. Man and woman of the United States army were sent to help the village out. Although we did lose one soldier, the media here in the states reported that our soldiers took down more than fifty ISIS soldiers. This is the one of only hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by ISIS soldiers. The article was titled “Pentagon says ISIS Ambush that Killed Navy Seal was a Surprise”. I think this article was very compelling. The article focused on the tragic story of a group of soldiers fighting for their country, and one life ending. For and Islamic based news article this one was pretty generic, a dime a dozen but it gets that peoples attention.
ISIS is the most deadly and the biggest terrorist group the world has ever seen. They have made headline after headline in the news. Just about everyone in the world knows this radical group of Islamic extremist. They have become a household name here in the United States. So it is save to say that almost everyone wants to see them come to an end. The majority of the news articles I looked over had mentioned something to do with violent confrontation among Islamic group and the rest of the world. I think it would be beneficial to have a little more news articles dedicated purely to inform people about the facts of where ISIS stands and where the rest of the world stand whether in support or not. The important thing is that we are finding a way to fight ISIS. Although it is not always the full story our country as well as the rest of the world are getting a look into what ISIS is doing, hopefully it will shed enough light to get them to stop.
Did you know that the most powerful terristic group could be only a few steps away from becoming a state according to the United Nations? Who are they you may ask? ISIS that’s who. This is a very big issue that is going on in the world. A lot of people don't know much about ISIS; I am hoping to change that. Throughout this paper I am going to touch on a few things; why I chose to research ISIS, how the media portrays ISIS, what they stand for, and the future of ISIS itself.
One of the reason I chose the topic of ISIS for my news analysis is because during my time here at ISU I took a class on the Middle East and we covered ISIS a little bit. Although it was short it got my mind whirling, I wanted to do more research, this assignment was the perfect excuse. Currently, I have been keeping an eye on the news, my brother is going to study abroad this summer he will be in Europe and with the many attacks I want to make sure that he will be safe during his time overseas. He will be in …show more content…
Paris, so when they were attacked I was torn; Happy that he wasn’t there and safe at school, but Sad for the people that did lose their lives in the attack.
One thing about the growing age of technology ISIS uses is social and news media. Although I believe people don’t always get the whole story. Many people think that ISIS is just a bunch of crazy people that are killing random people, which is simply not the case. With every problem created there is a reason that problem emerged. People and things don’t do things for no reason.
The next news article I found is from Time.com. It is titled “Four Reasons the War Against ISIS is Working and One Reason it’s Not. The article starts by telling us that ISIS has more resources then any terrorist group in the world. They also tell us that ISIS has more resources than any terrorist group of all time. ISIS controls more than 2 trillion dollars worth of assets, this includes guns, tanks, and cars. One big revenue that this group has is oil. They make a lot of money from oil because they control many of the oil reserves in the Middle East. But with the increase in bombings, after the Paris attack their income has drooped dramatically do to the targeting of oil reserves and many other ISIS assets for that matter. ISIS territory has been expanding rapidly, and for a short while didn’t seem like it could be stopped until recently. Recently they have been losing territory, this means they are not as strong as they once were; they are getting weaker. In the past ISIS was getting over 200 foreign fighters every month, this quickly began to add up. It was not until recently that the number started to drop so dramatically, now they just barely hit the 200s each month, this is still progress in their eyes but not enough. The use of social media has been a huge advantage to ISIS. They are using the media to draw peoples’ attention to become new soldiers, take the girl from Alabama; she up rooted herself to become apart of ISIS. The biggest social media site they are using is twitter. The company has terminated more than one hundred thousand accounts due to suspicion of terrorism activity. We have made a lot of great victories and we’re doing a good job trying to slow ISIS down, but we need to do better and bring this terrorist movement to an end.
First I am going to tell you a little about ISIS and what they stand for.
ISIS is known as the Islamic state, they are a not just a group of crazy people but they are want to be recognized as a real state by the United Nations. To be a state, you need a controlled territory, people, and a form of laws. They have a controlled territory, people, and laws; they also have many people to implement the laws. The big difference between ISIS and a place like Illinois is that the laws that they are implementing are religious based. For example, there is a law to not drink do drugs simply because their religion bands it. There are many laws that ISIS implements that are similar to ones we have in the United States, some not so much. Their rules are controlled by religion something that doesn’t control our country. From an article written by Jessica Elgot in the Huffington Post she listed a few of these laws, below are some of the few that I found to be most
interesting. o Women are told they should not go outside unless necessary, because their place is to provide stability at home. o They must wear full, wide Islamic dress o Stealing or looting will result in the amputation of limbs o Criminals can be crucified (this law quotes a verse from the Quran) o Muslims must participate in group prayers at mosques 'on time' o Muslims will be well-treated, unless they are allied with oppressors o Drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes are banned o Rival political or armed groups are also banned o Police and military officers will be given the chance to repent o Apostasy is punishable by death and carrying flags, except those of the Islamic state, is not allowed o Graves and shrines are forbidden, and will be destroyed
Now that you know a little bit about what ISIS stands for, lets talk about what they has been doing recently. I read an article from Fox News; it was about an ISIS ambush that ended in the death of a navy seal. He was trying to save people from gunfire and ended up getting shot himself. There was a team of eleven navy seals and only one died. The battle took place in a small Christian village in the Middle East, this village got the attention of ISIS; they decided it needed to go. Man and woman of the United States army were sent to help the village out. Although we did lose one soldier, the media here in the states reported that our soldiers took down more than fifty ISIS soldiers. This is the one of only hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by ISIS soldiers. The article was titled “Pentagon says ISIS Ambush that Killed Navy Seal was a Surprise”. I think this article was very compelling. The article focused on the tragic story of a group of soldiers fighting for their country, and one life ending. For and Islamic based news article this one was pretty generic, a dime a dozen but it gets that peoples attention.
ISIS is the most deadly and the biggest terrorist group the world has ever seen. They have made headline after headline in the news. Just about everyone in the world knows this radical group of Islamic extremist. They have become a household name here in the United States. So it is save to say that almost everyone wants to see them come to an end. The majority of the news articles I looked over had mentioned something to do with violent confrontation among Islamic group and the rest of the world. I think it would be beneficial to have a little more news articles dedicated purely to inform people about the facts of where ISIS stands and where the rest of the world stand whether in support or not. The important thing is that we are finding a way to fight ISIS. Although it is not always the full story our country as well as the rest of the world are getting a look into what ISIS is doing, hopefully it will shed enough light to get them to stop.