5: Causes of ISIS

Question 1

Cause 1:

Answer 1

Desire to create an Islamic caliphate

Question 2

ISIS desires:

Answer 2

The creation of an Islamic Caliphate free from Western influence

Question 3

Current Islamic states:

Answer 3

Are too secular (Turkey - Apostasy)

Too influenced by the West (Saudi, Jordan)

Question 4

The Sun:

Answer 4

“ISIS created a caliphate … to restore Islamic conquest”

Question 5

Cause 2:

Answer 5

Globalisation

Question 6

Argument (Globalisation):

Answer 6

Globalisation has facilitated the spread of ISIS ideology and given rise to international terrorism

Question 7

Nice Attack:

Answer 7

July 2016

Question 8

Sydney Hostage Crisis:

Answer 8

December 2014

Question 9

Foreign Fighters:

Answer 9

30,000 foreign fighters have joined ISIS since 2011

Question 10

Pourmokhtari:

Answer 10

“The internet … has played a crucial role in advancing Islamic State’s cause”

Question 11

Cause 3:

Answer 11

Mismanagement in Iraq

Question 12

Senior ISIS leader told the Guardian:

Answer 12

Without the Camp Bucca facility in Iraq where he and most senior leadership was detained “made it all, it built our ideology”

Question 13

British PM Tony Blair:

Answer 13

“Without the Iraq war there would be no Islamic state”

Question 14

The Independent:

Answer 14

“The West failed to act in a significant way to the violence that started in Syria”