ISIS : A THREAT TO WORLD SECURITY

 ISIS is the most deadly terrorist organisation operating today and the greatest threat to world peace, amassing more fighters, more funding and more territory than any other terrorist movement. The Islamic state's fanaticism and disciplined organisation is similar to the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the Nazi Regime. On top of employing tactics of intimidation and public punishment, ISIS aims to exterminate entire categories of people. The group of unparalleled ability to transmit its messages, control hundreds of square miles in Northern Syria and Northern Iraq, and impose harsh Shari'a law sets the terrorist apart from AL-Qaeda. Despite ISIS' dominant presence, it is most successful against those who cannot or will not fight back. Therefore, the real issue is whether the international legal system is prepared to stop this large-scale suffering and worldwide threat.

              Revelations from ISIS documents obtained by the British press, tell us what makes the terrorist group a transnational threat. The human network that ISIS has woven around the world presents an outsized global danger that may endure even if the group loses in caliphate in Iraq.The ISIS brand has been popping-up everywhere, from California to East Asia. But all ISIS are not equal. In the US, the number of Islamist related plots has spiked in recent months. And in India, law enforcement officials recently arrested 14 youths for forming an ISIS-wannabies. This is not to argue that these threats aren't threats. Roaming rouge terrorists can be just as deadly as extremists taking orders from terror central. On the other hand, they  don't present the threat of organizing a terror  campaign capable of conducting sustained operations or multiple coordinated attacks like ISIS pulled off in Paris last year.

                                                                                  Unfortunately, extremists in many parts of the world are linking up in  organized networks. In some cases, these human webs develop as fighters return home from Iraq and Syria or when foreign fighters still in the theater reach back to tighten connection with home-town extremists. In others, ISIS organizers are simply plugging into standing extremist communities. These network are popping up all over the world, from Australia and Indonesia in the far East to Tunisia in the North Africa and Trinidad in the Caribbean. By far the most concerning networks right now in Western Europe. Their number are significant. The range of juicy targets is tempting. New threats are popping up all the time.An attacked was recently frustrated in France. This, in part, explains why the refugee flow into Europe is such a significant security concern. It is not that the odd terrorist might be hiding in the  flow of migrants. Terrorists find lots of ways to travel from one country to another. The problem for Europe is that terrorists travelling there can readily fall in on existing networks. That makes them much more dangerous than the odd extremist who has to travel to a strange land and set up business on his own.

                                      The danger of human networks is also reflected in terrorist use of the internet. Much is made of how ISIS uses social network and dark web to reach out in recruit, incite and coordinate terrorist activity. But it is where they tweet, rather than how much they tweet that matters. Where social networks are layered over existing human webs, the internet provides a powerful additive to what terrorist can do. As long as the core thrives, there is every reason to expect that the networks will grow or that, if cut back, they will able to regenerate. The core, of course, is ISIS's self-proclaimed caliphate. Crushing it might take the foot off the pedal fueling the global Islamist insurgency. But, it also might not be enough. ISIS has already made a move to establish Libya as an alternate base of operations if it loses to much territory in Iraq. Further, in the shadow of ISIS, al Qaeda has made a come back. It is just waiting for the ISIS black flag to falter to reclaim the allegiance of the disparate Islamist networks around the world-giving them a new neural center.

The suffering of young Yazidi women at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is unending. ISIS captures, tortures, rapes and sells the women into slavery, leaving the members of the Yazidi, an Iraqi monotheistic religious minority, wishing they were dead. Apart from targeting Yazidis, the Islamic militants practice indiscriminate warfare, rounding up all non-believers from Iraqi Christians to Turkmen, shiite Muslims and fellow of Sunni Muslims.As daily death tolls multiply, the number of Muslims seduced into militancy simultaneously increases. ISIS wishes to establish a state that encompasses the Arab World. The self-appointed leader of the Islamic State, Abu  bakr al-Baghdadi, spreads his sermon, urging Muslims to return to their religious obligation by waging a holy war in the name of Allah.The situation in Gaza and Israel is grim, but there is another situation that is pure evil and should have our attention. ISIS has taken over charge chunks of  Syria and Iraq and is now holding weapons, armor, and vehicles provided by the United States Army. ISIS killed thousands of people in Iraq and Syria. Every Muslims and non- Muslims alike are targets for ISIS and their followers.With control so much land, oil and weapons, it is only a matter of time that ISIS goes global with their battle plan. Already ISIS has proclaimed that they and their leaders are the leaders of all Muslims in the world. That bold claim while widely brushed aside, is a serious one.An armed militant group that is hell-bent on domination is felling so confident that they have lay claim on every Muslim life and land in the world. Today, it is in Syria and Iraq, tomorrow they will be sending fighters the world over to take what they think is theirs.

                                                            One of the mission statements of ISIS according to the founder Zarqawi is to be a caliph of all Muslims in the world. They nolonger feel content with alliance, but insist that his Iraqi Sunnis hosts submit to his harsh interpretation of sharia law where women wear veils always, beheading of criminals, and the whole nine yards of Islam. And those who resisted, even the prominent figures in the community, be executed. No wonder ISIS made the bold claim that they are the head o all Muslim anywhere in the world.The Islamic militant group has so far killed over 5,000 people including women and children while 1.2 million people have been driven from their homes. Let us compare that with the more popular war between Israel vs. Hamas. In Gaza, close to 300 people have been killed. The entire world's media is focused on Israel and Gaza, all the social media and citizen action fronts are mobilizing to stop the bloodshed and rightly so. the questions remains, why have been so silent while 5,500 people have perished in Iraq alone? We haven't even looked at the death toll from Syria. Israel and Hamas both have their axe to grind with each other and Israel will agree to truce again soon enough and Hamas eventually will be given in too. That war has an end that we can see; there the clear list of demands on both sides to end the violence too, however with the ISIS, there is not such lifting of a blocked or the end to rocket strikes, they are looking to dominate the people and eliminate all that stand opposed to them. ISIS is the biggest threat the middle- east has today. They have systematically terrorized civilian with mass murders, sexual violence, kidnappings and even destruction of places of worship.They are not sending any warnings, they are not giving an avenue for peace, it is either surrender to their will or be killed. The activities of this group have become so worrisome that many Muslims had chided their activities and said that ISIS do not represent Islam.But rather they are drugged up militants getting high on murder, rape, and violence and must be stopped. Many American Muslims are ashamed and deeply distraught over the fact that their weapons, vehicles and other military equipment taken to Iraq and Syria in order to quell the disturbances there, had been used by ISIS to carry out their attacks.Some have afraid that speaking up against ISIS means that their will be a target on their heads soon. They are afraid that this deadly group would bombard such ones with their hate e-mail and comments which eventually constitute a big threat to them and their family.

                                                   If the entire world did not speak up against this deadly now, those in Iraq and Syria are going to be destroyed and soon their sights will turn to the rest of others. As likely as it may seem to take over so many countries. They don't need to take control or their presence to be felt, their terrorists tactics alone will change the way we live unless we stop them now. The recent attacks these groups launched in Kabani, a northern region in Syria bordering them with Turkey shows that these groups wanted to encroach into Turkey and from there, they can penetrate into other European territories and the rest of other countries and continents thereby making their bloody incursions a global threat to peace and security in the entire world. Dismantling the global Islamist insurgency requires breaking teh back of ISIS state in Iraq. It also requires shutting down the flow of foreign fighters, a key instrument in the building terrorist human networks. With they key tasks accomplished, individual countries can roll up the human networks in their own backyards and battle the extremist ideas inspiring them. In concert, US can dump ex-president Obama's failed global counter terrorism strategy, replacing it with a concerted effort to build the key regional alliances that will add security and stability.