Islamic State (ISIS and ISIL)

Muhammads (saw) Islamic state is basically the Khilafah and a Khalif is the ruler and the Khalif should be appointed by Allah and should be infallible so he dont judge wrong amongst the people

The war in Syria has caused immense suffering, displacing over half of the population and leading to a humanitarian crisis marked by widespread poverty, lack of access to basic services, and food insecurity. Civilians face constant threats from violence, including airstrikes and ground battles, resulting in high casualties and trauma. Additionally, millions of Syrians have fled to neighboring countries or sought refuge in Europe, straining resources and creating social tensions in host communities. The conflict has disrupted education and healthcare, leaving a generation of children without proper schooling and access to medical care.

Islamic State is a Jihadist Organization and hates the United States for exactly the same reasons as other Jihadist organizations.

Jihadism:
Jihadist organizations advocates the ideas that (1) national laws should be based on the Shari'a or Islamic Law and (2) the imposition of Islamic Law should be done using violence or military force (as opposed to democratically). Jihadism is the ideology that motivates al-Qaeda (and Bin Laden), Boko Haram, Islamic State (ISIL), AQIM, Hezbollah, Asa'ib al-Haqq, the Houthis, Hamas, and numerous other terrorist organizations.

Particular Issues:
Jihadist organizations' interests and beliefs have brought them into direct conflict with the United States on multiple grounds:

1) Conflict of Values: Jihadists argue that Islam as a religion supports numerous aspects of their political platform. These requisites include: (1) that there should be an Islamic government that rules according to Islamic Law, (2) that Islam supports the idea of martyrdom in war, (3) that Islam supports a traditional family structure, and (4) God's law is immutable and unchangeable throughout time. Most importantly, Jihadists argue that the ultimate project of Islam and all Muslims is to create an Islamic government that rules according to Islamic Law.

Conversely, the United States directly opposes this set of values, arguing that a secular government, peaceful interaction with possible enemies before violence, personal liberties, and human rights are preferable. Jihadists argue that the American system is a deeply immoral system. It rewards the greedy and powerful who can use the system to take advantage of the downtrodden. It values materialism and up-ends spiritualism, creating societies that care more about banalities like the latest fashions than questions about God and truth. However, most importantly, the advocacy of personal liberties and human rights is the promotion of man-made law and human choices above the Divine Mandate which is the Qur'an and the Shari'a. Jihadists see the elevation of man-made law above Divine Law to be sacrilege and an assertion that man knows better than God what he should do.

2) Direct Antagonism: In addition to the cultural opposition to Jihadism that the United States mass-produces, the US government has also actively fought against or directly assisted others in fighting against Jihadism. There are the US military adventures in Iraq and Syria, where the US actively fought against al-Qaeda Iraq (the forerunner of Islamic State) on the ground, bombed Islamic State from the air with a coalition of other Arab countries, and buttressed the Non-Islamist Kurdish Peshmerga on the ground. The US also fought against the Jihadist Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and returned the Non-Islamist Northern Alliance to power. The US invaded Somalia several times, including during the UNISOM missions, each time explicitly targeting Jihadist groups like al-Shabaab along with pirates. The United States also provides funding and intelligence to assist poorer nations in setting up and running counter-terrorism programs, specifically designed to prevent Jihadist attacks.

3) US Support of Secular Authoritarians: In much of the Islamic World, the Cold War period was defined by the presence of US-backed secular dictators. The prevailing view among Jihadists was that these US-backed dictators were little more than Western Proxies and not representative of the history of the Islamic World, its values, or its peoples' will, which is why they were only in power by brute force and the repression of human rights. Jihadists became the only consistent opposition to these repressive governments and saw themselves as fighting for ideological independence from the Western Proxies ruling the Islamic World.

4) Rolling Back of Islamic Lands: Jihadists consider the Islamic World's growth in terms of territory, manpower, and control to be a positive that should be actively sought, through peace or war. As a result, any action that has rolled back the clock and "de-Islamized" lands that had previously been under the control of a Muslim sovereign is seen as a gross miscarriage of justice. (This is very similar to how Western countries see coup d'etats that replace Western-aligned countries with Anti-Western countries.) Examples of these "rolled back" territories abound, like Israel (Jewish), which was formerly part of various Islamic Empires for over 1000 years, India (Hindu), which had been under partial Islamic occupation for nearly 500 years, Spain/Portugal (Catholic), which had been controlled in part for over 750 years by the Umayyad Caliphate and its successors, and East Timor (Catholic), which had been occupied by Indonesia for decades. In all of these cases, Non-Muslims were able to cast of the yoke of Islamic Control and create their own independent countries and, in all of these cases, the US actively supports these countries with AID, trade, and military defense agreements. As a result, the US is complicit in actively undoing what centuries of Islamic expansion have wrought.

5) Assimilation vs. Muslim Identity: Jihadist groups argue that the only identity that matters for Muslims is the Muslim identity. National, ethnic, socially derived, interpersonal, work, and other identities are unimportant and should be relegated to the past. Conversely, the United States supports the notion of pluralism, which is the idea that a society should be colorblind and give people of all races and identities an equal shot as citizens. In the pluralist society, the important unifying identity is citizenship and common cultural values. As a result, the US promotes the assimilation of its Muslim population and contravenes the Jihadist belief that a Muslim's identity as a Muslim identity be their central and only identity. Jihadists also use the isolation felt by Muslims who only value their Muslim identity and do not assimilate to help them in recruiting, so, in addition to being opposite to the Jihadist vision of Muslim identity, the assimilated identity serves to make converting a Conservative American Muslim to a Jihadist worldview a more difficult process.

6) Aiding the Takfiris: Since Jihadist groups are founded by very religious Muslims, the sectarian divides between Sunni and Shiite groups come out very strongly in terms of their policy. Each Jihadist group will name all adherents of rival sects of Islam as "takfiris" (تكفيري) or "blasphemers". These individuals are now no longer viewed as Muslims and, instead, are viewed as enemies. However, the United States has openly made deals with and supported both Sunnis and Shiites, leading Shiite Jihadists and Sunni Jihadists to hate the US respectively for aiding Takfiris defend themselves and advance their "abortion of Islam".

Some examples of US support of Sunnis that angers Shiite Jihadists include: (1) equipping the Saudi Air Force, since all of their planes and ordinance are purchased from the US and are used to carpet-bomb Shiite-majority areas in Yemen, (2) upgrading relations with Egypt and Jordan following Israeli Peace Treaty with better AID packages, better trade deals like the QIZ, and higher level diplomatic arrangements, (3) business arrangements between the US and the Arab Emirates of the Persian Gulf, and (4) the US support given to Lebanon in 2005 and 2006 as Lebanon pushed out Syrian control and attempted to establish a more neutral foreign policy than the Pro-Shiite policy (favoring Syria and Iran) pushed by the Syrian Occupying Authority.

Some examples of US support of Shiites that angers Sunni Jihadists include: (1) the US Nuclear Treaty with Iran, which has led to a rapprochement with Iran and numerous large payments to Iran, (2) the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Sunni government in Iraq to create a new Shiite government that actively persecutes the Sunni minority, and (3) the indirect creation of the "Shiite Crescent" which is an extension of Iranian power over Iraq and Syria that creates a substantial bulwark to Sunni-majority states. Many Sunnis (not just Jihadists) argue that the Obama Administration in particular has reversed the US's historic Pro-Sunni stance and is now adopting a Pro-Shiite stance. This is particularly angering to Sunni Jihadists because of the power that the US brings to the table.

7) Female Empowerment: The US actively promotes a number of programs in the Islamic World, like microlending, women's education, and other activities designed to give women an equal say in politics and determining their own destiny. Jihadists see this as a reversal of traditional roles, where men and women live in an equilibrium of different but equal. In the Jihadist view, a woman should be taking care of the home and the man should be working. Women should not trespass into men's territory and men should not trespass onto the woman's home maintenance duties. By promoting female independence and self-sufficiency, the US is seeking to undermine traditional values and Jihadists oppose this.

8) Acceptance of Non-Muslim Refugees: Particularly in the case of Islamic State, numerous Non-Muslims have come under the power of Jihadist forces. These Non-Muslims are usually required to be Dhimmis and pay the jizya, which serves as a baseline tax for the national coffers. The jizya also serves as a negative financial incentive to convert to Islam. However, the US (among other countries) is taking in Non-Muslim Refugees, which prevents these individuals from being forced to stay under Jihadist power and paying taxes. It also means that fewer people will feel forced to convert to Islam, so the religion will grow more slowly. Jihadists oppose this situation.

9) American Ethics of "Whatever": Jihadists hold that Americans were unbridled in that they allow rampant immorality under the idea that each person is entitled to live as he or she likes. If something is morally wrong, like homosexuality, sex out of wedlock, applying interest to loans, or women showing their hair, this should be banned according to Jihadists. The government's duty, in their view is correct the moral failings in others, not to allow all kinds of immorality to fester. Furthermore, the resolution of the conflict between these morally deficient people by imposing a far better moral system, Islamic governance, would eviscerate problems like torture, civil strife, etc.

10) Banking and Insurance: Jihadists object to the wealth management that goes on in the US, which both violates Shari'a Law as regards usury, uncertainty, and risk, and which ensures predation of the poor by the wealthy. They make many of the same arguments as Socialists do concerning how inequality of wealth, lack of communal ownership, and attempts to hoard property are damaging to the social order. They see this as especially true as these banking and insurance systems are what allow the extraordinarily wealthy kings, emirs, and dictators of the Islamic World to hoard billions of dollars while their citizens starve. Since the US is the financial capital of the world and one of the main hubs for insurance around the world, the US is hated for creating this wealth system and disempowering Muslims around the world.

11) Offensive Jihad: Jihadists argue that during the colonial occupation Islam ran the risk of being destroyed under the heel of the secular European boot. To prevent this and protect Islam, campaigns of violence and religious war needed to be used proactively against Westerners to cow them into accepting Islam as the correct and proper way to rule Islamic States and for the non-Muslims to accept the Islamist mentality. Jihadists see this as analogous to how the colonizers forced secularism on Islamic States, but since Islam was more virtuous, it would result in a more virtuous world. The greatest impediment to this reversal of power and the reinstatement of an Islamic government.

ISIL is called ISIS because it is one and same thing. ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and ISIL stands for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. The issue derives from its Arabic name which is ad-Dawla al-Islamiyya fi al-3eraaq w'ash-Sham (الدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام). The word "Sham" is translated as both "Syria" and "the Levant" in English, but refers to all of the Levantine territories (Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Jordan).

Further, the Levant is a term which is not commonly used in the Western world. More people have heard of Syria due to its recent civil war. It could be argued that use of Syria in ISIS helps associates the organization with the negative media image associated with the government of Syria including that of dictatorship, corruption, and killing of citizens. In this way, the viewer is implicitly led to believe that ISIS is also evil, 'anti-American', and perhaps even Russian backed.

Finally, ISIS is easier to say than ISIL, and has more of a ring to it.

ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), known as ad-Dawla al-Eslamiyya al-3iraaq w'ash-Shaam - الدولة الإسلامية العراق والشام or the acronym Daa3esh - داعش in Arabic, is an extremist Sunni Islamist organization which used to have links to al-Qaeda before al-Qaeda condemned them for their barbarity. They are fighting to bring the Sunni majority into power, especially in Sunni majority regions of both Syria and Iraq, and impose a more fundamentalist view on politics. They consider themselves to be fighting the injustices and violence of the current Assad regime and the inequalities of the US-supported Government of Iraq. ISIL is primarily supported and armed by Saudi Arabia, but the US and UK have indirectly given ISIL millions of dollars and equipment since US and UK military vehicles and assets left to the Government of Iraq have fallen into ISIL hands (especially with the fall of Mosul).

ISIL controls significant amounts of land in Syria and Iraq and conquered much of its Iraqi territory in June 2014. Despite small gains by the Kurdish Peshmerga Army and the Republic of Iraq Army, most of these territories remain in ISIL control nearly a year later.

ISIL started as an offshoot of al-Qaeda Iraq, also called Jubhat al-Nusra (the al-Nusra Front). Their main disagreement with the majority of Jubhat al-Nusra, and which prompted their leaving the organization, was that al-Baghdadi (the founder of ISIL) and his supporters argued that the Islamic Caliphate should be formed today as opposed to the majority who wanted to only set up the building blocks for a future Caliphate. The split occurred only in 2012. Because ISIL wants to create an Islamic Caliphate immediately, they have been working at a feverish pace to achieve that goal.

In ISIL's conception, the failures of the Islamic World in terms of economy, morality, military power, and political acumen are directly the result of abandoning Islam as a religion and its principles. They hold that the Western ideals have pervaded the Islamic World, which distances them from following the words of the Qur'an literally to achieve salvation for all Muslims. Only by returning to an extreme literalist interpretation and the legal enforcement of those values can Muslims be the world leaders.

Rest assured, there are a lot of us who'd love a crack at ISIL. I have a grudge to settle back from when they were known as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad. However, this isn't the place to answer that question.

I know we have a law in the US known as the Neutrality Act (which is what Don Black and Wolfgang Droege were convicted under when they attempted to overthrow the government of Dominica), and it's likely that a similar exists in Canada, which is not a party to that conflict at present. Not to mention following through with these plans might entail desertion of your unit. As such, we cannot provide answers to what would be illegal acts.

I hope you figure something out, and I hope you kill a lot of them - these were the ones setting IEDs up in our AO when I was there, and I certainly have no love lost for them. Unfortunately, the policies of this site and me being an arbiter of those policies prevents me from allowing this question to be answered here.

Islamic State profess to be fundamentalist (Salafi) Sunni Muslims and they cite chapter and verse for their actions. This does not mean that Islamic State is a good representative of what most Sunni Muslims believe.

There are two questions here:

Is it true that Erdogan is supporting the Islamic State?
Definitive information about secretive deals is nearly impossible to come by, so, with the exception of people in the Turkish and Islamic State governments, nobody knows with certainty about what deals may be structured between those two groups. However, most political commentators and journalists in the region do believe that there is sufficient evidence to establish a link of at least non-aggression and possible monetary support. The clearest evidence of a functional relationship between Turkey and Islamic State are the repeated sales of petroleum from Islamic State to Turkey and Turkey's non-aggression against Islamic State, even when the latter has crossed the Turkish border on certain occasions.

Why would Erdogan support the Islamic State, especially when this violates NATO and Anti-IS Obligations?
Quite simply, Erdogan sees Assad as the greater evil and will do anything (including supporting Islamic State to achieve this goal). Erdogan has delusions of grandeur and a desire to resuscitate the Ottoman Empire. In this vein he believes that he might be able to exert some kind of cultural or political control over the Islamic State because of their common bonds as pious Muslims that he could not exert over Assad, since Assad was an Arab Nationalist and Non-Muslim. (Assad is an Alawite.)

As for Erdogan's "obligations" in the Coalition Against Islamic State and Turkey's membership in NATO, Erdogan is wagering that neither the US nor European countries will push Turkey to actually abide with its treaty obligations. He believes, correctly given recent politics, that since the US needs Turkish bases like Incirlik to launch its aerial assault on Islamic State and that European countries need Turkish cooperation to halt the flow of Muslim migrants and refugees, these countries will not press their luck.

No, this is a headline that was created out of context.

Donald Trump said "In many respects, you know, they honor President Obama. He is the founder of ISIS."

He did not mean it in a literal way, but was accusing Barack Obama of making military and political errors that created a situation that allowed ISIS to form. This is a an opinion that has been stated by some political commentators over the last few years.

It's now making headlines, because of Trump's wording. Even though it is being used slightly out of context, he did actually say the words.

It is best to read up on the bigger picture to see if you agree with the opinion or not.

Intersil Corporation (ISIL) had its IPO in 2000.

Western power structure create all terrorist group like Al Qaeda, Taliban and now Takfiries and Isis and they make lots of films and advertisment against Islam because they want to increase Islamophobia. Islamophobia (or anti-Muslim sentiment) is a term for prejudice against,hatred towards, or fear of the religion of Islam or Muslims.The term entered into common English usage in 1997 with the publication of a report by the Runnymede Trust condemning negative emotions such as fear, hatred, and dread directed at Islam or Muslims. While the term is now widely used, both the term itself and the underlying concept have been criticized.The causes and characteristics of Islamophobia are still debated.Some scholars have defined it as a type of racism. Some commentators have posited an increase in Islamophobia resulting from the September 11 attacks, while others have associated it with the increased presence of Muslims in secular nations

The Islamic State (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), known as ad-Dawla al-Eslamiyya al-3iraaq w'ash-Shaam (الدولة الإسلامية العراق والشام) or the acronym Daa3esh (داعش) in Arabic, is an extremist SUNNI ISLAMIST organization. The primary goal of Islamic State is to use military force to unite the regions that have historically been ruled by Muslims into one unified Caliphate or theocratic country ruled by Islamic Clerics. They are fighting to bring the Sunni majority into power, especially in Sunni-majority regions of both Syria and Iraq, and impose a more fundamentalist view on politics. They consider themselves to be fighting the injustices and violence of the current Assad regime and the inequalities of the US-supported Government of Iraq.

It is important to clarify what Islamism is. While Islam is a religion (delineated by particular prayers, beliefs about God, and guidance for interpersonal interactions) Islamism is a political ideology whose goal is to bring the religious tenets of Islam into the daily functioning of a government and its laws. Islamism is a modern movement whose roots began contemporaneously with the rise of Salafism in the late 1800s and early 1900s in Egypt. Islamic State practices a particularly violent form of Islamism called Jihadism, which not only wishes a particularly repressive version of Islamic Law to be instituted, but believes that violence in defense of the faith is the preferred way to do this. Jihadism, like Islamism, is a political ideology rooted in Islamic religious concepts, but distorted. The distortion here is that there are many ways to advocate on behalf of the faith and the choice to exclusively use violence is a misinterpretation of the doctrine.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria did not exist in 2001.

9/11 was planned and executed by Al Qaeda for the United States' involvement in the Middle East (primarily Saudi Arabia).

I do not think that they will, due to the fact that we have already been attacked once on 9/11.

I'm a muslim, first thing ISIS has nothing to do with our religion. They want to be the strongest group in the world so they want to make people fear them. Please note that ISIS is also killing muslims.

To date, there has never been a war between the US and any regime that held power in Syria. The closest the US has come is its current airstrikes against the Islamic State.

ISIS is currently merging with other groups and gangs throughout the world. Even groups who do not share their beliefs. Cell groups have emerged as far away as South America and throughout Mexico. They will eventually have control and wage war against Christianity and the western world.

They did take control of that area.

Also known as the Syrian Uprising is an ongoing armed conflict taking place in Syria. The unrest began in the early spring of 2011 within the context of Arab Spring protests, with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, whose forces responded with violent crackdowns.