Mass murders. Execution of hostages. Rapes. Terror Attacks. Does all these sound synonymous?
Hello, Warriors!
Indian intelligence recently said that ISIS may be planning to attack India by joining hands with the local terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba from Pakistan.
The name of ISIS has become synonymous with various crime and terror related activities. Established as the Islamic State of Iraq, it changed its name to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to Islamic State (IS). This happened as they gained control over the respective territories.
After seizing the area around Mosul, Iraq, ISIS has a territory as big as the United Kingdom.
So, the real question is not what ISIS want but, why is ISIS doing what its doing.
The Islamic State sees itself as having established a caliphate. Having fulfilled the necessary requirement of possessing territory, believers are now obligated to observe all sharia laws. In theory this includes immigrating to the caliphate.
Failing to expand its territory in Iraq, ISIS went the other way- capturing Syria. This led to the mass migration and people fleeing Syria to different parts of the world as refugees.
ISIS looks after this as a form of struggle within oneself which is also referred to as Jihad. This is often related to being Islamic and often termed as Islamic Extremists. Scholars, on the other hand argue that the believe of the group is to kill the Infidels whereas Islam invites them to peace- the literal meaning of Islam itself is “Peace”.
“You can’t blame a teacher for a student’s poor marks when all the others scored well in the same test”, they say.
Many are often relating this as a result of people coming from the war torn Syria and asks their government to close their boundaries for them. How come people fleeing the same situation become a part and organizers of the situation?
Today, ISIS is the world’s richest terrorist group, its funding coming mostly from various extortion schemes in the territory it controls. But back in 2012, foreign donations played a crucial role in growing the group from the poor organization it was then into the monster it is today.
One thing to be rest assured is that any threat to India and its people will be tackled bravely by the 1.3 million strong force which had volunteered for such a thing and as Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has rightly quoted “Our Army of 1.3 million is not to ‘preach peace’”.
But, peace is always better than a war and who but a soldier can understand this? Let’s hope that peace prevails at least until, we, the aspirants can take over the reign of the armed forces tomorrow.
AMAN KI ASHA
