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The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated even the hardcore terrorists of its parent organization, al Qaeda.Jessica Stern and J.M Berger, two of America s leading experts on terrorism, dissect the new model for violent extremism that ISIS has leveraged into an empire of death in Iraq and Syria, and an international network that is rapidly expanding in the Middle East, North Africa and around the world.ISIS The State of Terror traces the ideological innovations that the group deploys to recruit unprecedented numbers of Westerners, the composition of its infamous snuff videos, and the technological tools it exploits on social media to broadcast its atrocities, and its recruiting pitch to the world, including its success at attracting thousands of Western adherents The authors examine ISIS s predatory abuse of women and children and its use of horror to manipulate world leaders and its own adherents as it builds its twisted society The authors offer a much needed perspective on how world leaders should prioritize and respond to ISIS s deliberate and insidious provocations. Download ISIS author Jessica Stern – kino-fada.fr violent apocalyptic groups are not inhibited by the possibility of offending their political constituents because they see themselves as participating in the ultimate battle Apocalyptic groups are the most likely terrorist groups to engage in acts of barbarism, and to attempt to use rudimentary weapons of mass destruction Their actions are also significantly harder to predict than the actions of politically motivated groups For most of us the acronym ISIS conjures up an array of images, mos violent apocalyptic groups are not inhi...It didn t happen overnight, but the world woke up to the nightmare of ISIS in summer 2014 Before that ISIS was in the news, but not the way it wanted to be and only as an obscure offshoot of AQ So It changed that forever, when a gruesome video of barbaric murder of James Foley an American journalist spread over internet like wildfire It introduced the world to an extremist group that wasbrutal, violent and powerful than any other terrorist organization A group of terrorists who celeb It didn t happen overnight, but the world woke up to the nightmare of ISIS in summer 2014 Before that ISIS was in the news, but not the way it wanted to be and only as an obscure offshoot of AQ So It changed that forever, when a gruesome video of barbaric mu...This book tells the fast moving story of ISIS up to December 2014, and a bit of early 2015 update It has good reference material in that it includes a time line from its origin in 2003, a glossary and a history in short labeled dictionary style entries showing the influences that created this group including the prophet, the caliphate, the Sunni and Shi a split, Salafism, Waging War and a summary of what the book defines as ISIS s Radical among Radicals.The authors are on difficult groun This book tells the fast moving story of ISIS up to December 2014, and a bit of early 2015 update It has good reference material in that it includes a time line from its origin in 2003, a glossary and a history in short labeled dictionary style entries showing the influences that created this group including the prophet, the caliphate, the Sunni and Shi a split, Salafism, Waging War and a summary of what the book defines as ISIS s Radical among Radicals.The authors are on difficult ground and do well in sticking with what is probably known and when it is apt to change It is well footnoted with current authoritative sources The authors keep the jargon down and choose their words very carefully so the history is readable and clear.The first part, the narrative history was the best for me There wason social media and the Twitter battles than I d have liked, but, as the author s say, cybers...Easily the most academic book length material I ve read on the subject I don t want these guys knocking on my door someday passing out literature, or heads, or whatever.This report on the state of Islamic terror worldwide is essential to our understanding of a new kind of ideological warfare and how it is fought In addition it raises issues of security far from the physical battlefields in Syria or Iraq, and describes the ways in which bad actors influence surveillance and curbs on free speech Finally, it contrasts Al Qaeda with ISIS along many threads, and leaves open the possibility that one will eventually absorb the other The West has too often found i This report on the state of Islamic terror worldwide is essential to our understanding of a new kind of ideological warfare and how it is fought In addition it raises issues of security far from the physical battlefields in Syria or Iraq, and describes the ways in which bad actors influence surveillance and curbs on free speech Finally, it contrasts Al Qaeda with ISIS along many threads, and leaves open the possibility that one will eventually absorb the other The West has too often found itself fighting the last war, when the next war is taking shape bef...At a time when we see images of Iraqi forces backed by Iranian supported Shi a militias trying to retake Saddam Hussein s home of Tikrit from the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria ISIS , and we witness young girls leaving their homes in London and make their way through Turkey to join the jihad in Syria, it raises enumerable questions for politicians and the public worldwide Foremost, is how did we arrive at this point with ISIS, ISIL, IS or whatever their name is at the moment In addition, ho At a time when we see images of Iraqi forces backed by Iranian supported Shi a militias trying to ...Read and reviewed in May 2015 Although I was familiar with Islamism Islamic extremism I did not know of ISIS before summer 2013 and Obama s announcement of this name and of this group s expansion And since then I haven t come close to keeping up with the long, analytical articles about the movement But their spreading terrorism and the recent news of their capture of Palmyra forced my hand to learnI chose this book rather than the Michael Weiss book published at the same time be Read and reviewed in May 2015 Although I was familiar with Islamism Islamic extremism I did not know of ISIS before summer 2013 and Obama s announcement of this name and of this group s expansion And since then I haven t come close to keeping up with the long, analytical articles about the movement But their spreading terrorism and the recent news of their capture of Palmyra forced my hand to learnI chose this book rather than the Michael Weiss book published at the same time because I trust Jessica Stern Terror in the Mind of God and her haunting memoir, Denial Turns out that this book was exactly what I was looking for This was like a Cliffs Notes overview of the organization, touching on their origins and emergence, how they differ from al Qaeda, their various names IS, ISIS, ISIL, DAESH, etc , the announcement of the caliphate, their interpretation of jihad and Safaist Islam, their...As an aside, I was talking to my older son yesterday, and when he saw the cover of this book, he said, There s a book about ISIS that s in the waiting room at work, and some people were really mad that it was there Hmm, I said It seems to me that, when people have expressed the desire to destroy you and your society, it would be wise to learn as much...ISIS Twitter War At times this book is very interesting and informative At times it is rambling and incoherent in desperate need of some editing.While the first few chapters are well fashioned, Berger created software that aggregates Twitter content It seems that most of this book is about ISIS social media campaign I m sure that this is important but not as important as what is happening o...The book is a purely academic discussion of the origination and evolution of ISIS, the movement spearheading Islamic jihad at the moment I completely agreed with the authors that the illegal and spurious War in Iraq was the major enabler for this super terrorist organization to grow into a state, no matter how rudimentary it is The incarnation of ISIS leadership in Iraqi concentration camps worked like a University enabling the young men to produce an organization which has created such havo The book is a purely academic discussion of the origination and evolution of ISIS, the movement spearheading Islamic jihad at the moment I completely agreed with the authors that the illegal and spurious War in Iraq was the major enabler for this super terrorist organization to g...

ISIS
  • 17 September 2017
  • ebook
  • 432 pages
  • 0062395564
  • Jessica Stern
  • ISIS