"Why ISIS is spreading across Muslim world" Topic
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Tango01 | 20 Nov 2014 10:51 p.m. PST |
"In the many media stories about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, much of the focus has rightly been on the thousands of foreign fighters ISIS has attracted, its brutal tactics and its robust social media presence. But an arguably even more important development has not received the attention it deserves: the group's widening influence across the Muslim world, driven by the numerous terrorist and insurgent organizations that have recently sworn loyalty to it. In the past six months, ISIS has drawn into its fold some dozen groups from Algeria to Pakistan. Al Qaeda, in contrast, had been in existence for a decade before it recruited its first affiliate, Egypt's Jihad Group, in 1998. And, in its 2½-decade existence, al Qaeda has only manged to add some half dozen affiliates, one of which was al Qaeda in Iraq, the parent organization of ISIS that has now split off from the core al Qaeda organization…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
goragrad | 20 Nov 2014 11:03 p.m. PST |
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Mako11 | 21 Nov 2014 12:43 a.m. PST |
Groupies like to flock to those in the news, so……. |
Legion 4 | 21 Nov 2014 9:31 a.m. PST |
It appears, there are more islamists, jihadists, moslem terrorists, etc. then maybe was first thought. There may be more of the non-jihadist followers of islam, that was first thought as just another follower of the Koran. In COIN one of the major strengths of the insurgent is to blend in … As Mao said, The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Or Che "The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people." "It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves." Albeit, at this time, ISIS is fighting on both the conventional and insurgent levels, it seems … |
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