ISIS and Western Civilization

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ISIS and the Western Civilization
When the city of Paris was attacked on the 13th of November, 2015, eyes immediately turned towards the terror group Islamic State. There was fear among the people, but there was also astonishment. The group that rose to power in Iraq due to a power vacuum in the government had been in talks for their radical treatment of people and enemies, but no one had expected them to make such a bold move.
Speaking about the rise of the Islamic State in the March 2015 issue of the Atlantic, writer Graeme Wood describes the organization’s journey to its powerful stature not like that of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, by like a ‘prelude’ to a dystopian and totalitarian future, where subjects not any different from David Koresh and Jim Jones are in power and have control over the lives of millions of people CITATION Woo15 p “par 4” l 16393 (Wood par 4).
The Rise of Islamic State
In his book, the ISIS Apocalypse, William McCants recalls the time of the Syrian Civil War, which acted as a prelude to the rise of the ISIS. The terror group traces its origins to al-Qaeda, though it has now received a recognition and importance that its parent organization could never manage to. Established by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the tipping point that sprung its founders into action was the United States’ invasion of Iraq, even though the thought had been brewing for some time CITATION McC15 l 16393 (McCants).
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