As the world begins to analyze what the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi could mean, one is tempted to believe that this terrorist group has finally ended. Though there are reasons to be happy on this occasion, it is clear that the threat of IS will remain, as long as the world fails to address the circumstances that led to its emergence in the first place.
Al-Baghdadi had set himself up as a religious leader over a large Muslim-majority area. He hoped that he would gain loyalty from the world's Muslims, but that did not happen, as most Muslims rejected him, and the majority of his victims were Muslims, in addition to a number of Yazidis, Christians, Kurds, Iraqis, Syrians, Turks and others. The people of Iraq and Syria were the most brutal of this brutal organization, whether Muslims or non-Muslims, and were the people who suffered the most from fighting IS, and they are the most comfortable people after Baghdadi's death now.
Al-Baghdadi's followers promoted him as a religious authority representing the essence of Islam, but he was rejected by Islamic religious authorities inside and outside the region and his group as promoting blasphemy. The overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world rejected Baghdadi, and did not take his leadership seriously.
In fact, this man who tried to lead the Muslim world does not have any credibility to do so, he holds a degree in law from an obscure university that is not recognized until his followers. As for the true Islamic religious authority, it was of the view that the fundamental difference of opinion with this extremist organization was whether its ideas were sufficient to completely exclude anyone from the Islamic religion and consider them apostates, and that these ideas were largely wrong. It was the great ignorance of this group of Islam that made most Muslims consider it perverted and infidel, despite the efforts of this group to claim otherwise.
Now ISIS lacks the leader and the territory on which it resides, but will not simply disappear. Since the organization suffered from the loss of the areas it controlled in Iraq and Syria, the organization has changed from within, ie the emergence of many teams and branches around the world, which was focused on the fears and grievances suffered by the region where these organizations emerged from « ISIS. This process is still ongoing, and perhaps Baghdadi's death could accelerate it. This may mean that members of the organization are leaving certain branches of the organization and joining other terrorist groups. It may mean that these branches can be transferred entirely to other groups altogether, and no one knows what will happen.
What is clear, however, is that the factors in which these people came together to form an Islamic organization may still exist. The ideological underpinnings of the extremist group are a combination of two types of contemporary religious interpretations and heresy (two branches of the religious trend). Hardline) still has many supporters. In this regard, they may be considered similar to the positive Christian movement promoted by the Third Reich in the Nazi period in Germany, which was considered far from any known tradition of Christian recognition.
Ultimately, positive Christianity is now gone, being rejected by Christian churches, but by the end of Nazism as a structure of government, it lost its source of support. The neo-Nazis found themselves trying to penetrate society through other means.
But the grievances of some in the Middle East make them more inclined to join the terrorist group Daesh, especially in Syria.After the brutal civil war that has engulfed this country, there are many people who feel they have been wronged and want to take revenge on their oppressors.
In fact, even in Syria, the overwhelming majority of the Syrian people who lived under President Bashar al-Assad did not join groups like ISIS, although Syrian civilians suffered greatly in civil wars and suffered numerous human rights abuses. Repression, however, did not have many supporters in this country.
Ultimately, Baghdadi will be known in the future as a failed terrorist who has committed himself to an infidel faith that represents ambitions of illusions of greatness, and therefore has brought great tragedies to millions of Syrian and Iraqi populations, and ultimately committed suicide as a fugitive from justice.
Victims of ISIS
Most of the victims of ISIS were Muslims, in addition to a number of Yazidis, Christians, Kurds, Iraqis, Syrians, Turks and others. The people of Iraq and Syria were the most brutal of this brutal organization.
H. Hillier is a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Great ignorance of this group Islam
He made most Muslims consider it
Perverted and infidel, despite these efforts
Group to claim otherwise.
- Even in Syria, most of the Syrian people
Who lived under Bashar al-Assad did not join
To groups like ISIS, though
The Syrians suffered greatly in civil war.