9 Horrifying Facts About ISIS

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 ISIS is still to this day a growing threat to not only the middle east but the entire planet. Their extreme religious views have led them to kill thousands and beheading all Christians that do not convert to their extreme views. Although you hear about this group on the news all of the time there are things that you probably don’t know. So here are 9 facts about ISIS:

1. They have a lot of money

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ISIS is a terrorist group that is not in need of money. In fact, they made most of their money off of oil. They control 7 oil fields and 2 small refineries in the northern part of Iraq.

2. Major Nidal Malik recently tried to join ISIS.

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In 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Fort Hood. Even though he was yelling “Allahu Akbar” during the attack and had a history of associating with terrorist groups. The military has the event still classified as “workplace violence”. He recently tried to join ISIS.

 

3. They are using social media and apps in sophisticated ways.

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ISIS has actually developed their own app call The Dawn of Glad Tidings. This app provides all of the need to know stuff for terrorists. So far the app has been downloaded thousands of times. They use this as a way to build up their profiles among other terrorists.

4. ISIS operates like an international conglomerate.

ISIS Annual report

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I bet you never heard of terrorist groups releasing annual business reports. They actually put out a 400-page annual report with detailed mission reports, achievements, and strategy. Some of that included over 1000 assassinations. They also mentioned in their reports about the social media-friendly info-graphics of their operations.

The Institute for the Study of War said they had, “a unified, coherent leadership structure that commands from the top down.”

Not to mention that they have a gift shop where people are actually buying stuff from!

5. ISIS still holds a British hostage.

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ISIS still grabs a British man who has been abducted twice by Muslim militants and was abducted for the second time while filming his first

6. One of the ISIS leaders was an underground rapper in the UK.

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One of the leading members of ISIS who beheaded 14 people in 2014 was an underground rapper in the UK, now called Jihadi John by the media.

7. A German journalist predicted the rise of ISIS in 2005.

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A German journalist accurately predicted the Syrian Civil War and the rise of the ISIS Caliphate back in 2005, with astonishing accuracy.

8. ISIS uses humanitarian charities as a front.

ISIS using charity as front

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ISIS uses “humanitarian charity” organizations as a front to collect funds.

9. The U.S. is offering $10 Million for any information leading to the capture of the leader of ISIS.

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The US State Department announced a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to the capture or death of the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Only the leader of al-Qaeda merits a larger reward (US$25 million).