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What the media won’t say about ISIS
The phenomenal rise of ISIS and the ensuing rout of the Iraqi Army and its Shia militias has shaken the world. Only a fool would dismiss ISIS as just another radical Islamist group terrorizing the masses. In fact, they enjoy widespread popular support amongst the local Iraqi Sunni community, which although doesn’t agree with their Salafist ideology but still supports them as they see ISIS as their only defense against the Shia militias. It is impossible for ISIS to hold territory greater than the size of Britain without this crucial support.
Is ISIS a threat to Pakistan?
IS or ISIS (Islamic state of Iraq and Syria) as it is commonly known these days is a self proclaimed unrecognized state and a Sunni jihad group having its base in Iraq, Syria and the Middle East. It also self proclaims itself as a caliphate with their main objective being controlling the Muslim inhabited areas starting with the Levant region which includes the states of Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Cyprus and part of southern Turkey.