With the attacks on France fresh in people's minds everyone wants to know just who(what) ISIS/ISIL/Daesh is. What drives them to do such heinous acts and what if anything is their endgame.
So who and what does Daesh represent? They seem to be a group composed of mostly young men frustrated or at least tired of things being changed away from what they think are their traditional values. Even the leadership in the organization seems fairly young most in their mid 40's. Most of which seem to have died or reported dead multiple times. Their religion of choice is Wahhabism a neo Sunni-Islamic movement started in the mid 18th century popularized in Saudi Arabia. It is a very strict form of Islam so strict in fact that in 2009 King Abdullah himself set motions to try and quell the practitioners of this sect from being so extreme.
Judging from surviving captives accounts and other things I've read about Daesh is they seem to be much like the extreme right wing here. Using the common knowledge religious rhetoric to recruit low intelligence high faith individuals and spur them to doing "god's work". Also like the extreme right they have a buffet style neo-religious belief structure. They pick out the things that fit their motives and support their prejudices and leave out those pesky do unto others segments. Although seemingly having some degree of nationalism they do not seem to be endeared to any of the historical sites or relics, destroying many in the countries they operate in.
It is my belief that Daesh can easily be stopped but due to them being merely an inconvenience to the first world and the incompetence of leadership across many if not all of the first world nations. Sadly though this is not a final solution as long as theocracies or the want for them exist in this area exist another extreme fundamentalist group will appear. We actually have to see a modern day Lutheran movement from within Islam to end this cycle. We were close to having one of these in the 50s but unfortunately the west's involvement was detrimental to its outcome. Leading to the current problem with Daesh and the state of the middle east now. My only hope with less reliance of this area in the world for oil we will stop destabilizing nations that won't cooperate and create more enemies while destroy the lives of the civilians impacted by these policies.
-Get fucked internets, I'm out
Z
So who and what does Daesh represent? They seem to be a group composed of mostly young men frustrated or at least tired of things being changed away from what they think are their traditional values. Even the leadership in the organization seems fairly young most in their mid 40's. Most of which seem to have died or reported dead multiple times. Their religion of choice is Wahhabism a neo Sunni-Islamic movement started in the mid 18th century popularized in Saudi Arabia. It is a very strict form of Islam so strict in fact that in 2009 King Abdullah himself set motions to try and quell the practitioners of this sect from being so extreme.
Judging from surviving captives accounts and other things I've read about Daesh is they seem to be much like the extreme right wing here. Using the common knowledge religious rhetoric to recruit low intelligence high faith individuals and spur them to doing "god's work". Also like the extreme right they have a buffet style neo-religious belief structure. They pick out the things that fit their motives and support their prejudices and leave out those pesky do unto others segments. Although seemingly having some degree of nationalism they do not seem to be endeared to any of the historical sites or relics, destroying many in the countries they operate in.
It is my belief that Daesh can easily be stopped but due to them being merely an inconvenience to the first world and the incompetence of leadership across many if not all of the first world nations. Sadly though this is not a final solution as long as theocracies or the want for them exist in this area exist another extreme fundamentalist group will appear. We actually have to see a modern day Lutheran movement from within Islam to end this cycle. We were close to having one of these in the 50s but unfortunately the west's involvement was detrimental to its outcome. Leading to the current problem with Daesh and the state of the middle east now. My only hope with less reliance of this area in the world for oil we will stop destabilizing nations that won't cooperate and create more enemies while destroy the lives of the civilians impacted by these policies.
-Get fucked internets, I'm out
Z