What Coexisting Means To ISIS (blog #2)

          ISIS is an extremist group that follows al-Qaeda’s hard-line ideology and adheres to global jihadist  principles. Like al-Qaeda and many other modern-day jihadist groups, ISIS emerged from the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, the world’s first Islamist group dating back to the late 1920s in Egypt. ISIS follows an extreme anti-Western interpretation of Islam, promotes religious violence and regards those who do not agree with its interpretations as infidels and apostates. Also, ISIS aims to establish a Salafist-orientated Islamist state in Iraq, Syria and other parts of the Levant.
         
         ISIS’s ideology originates in the branch of modern Islam that aims to return to the early days of Islam, rejecting later “innovations” in the religion which it believes corrupt its original spirit. It condemns later caliphates and the Ottoman empire for deviating from what it calls pure Islam and hence has been attempting to establish its own caliphate. However, there are some Sunni commentators who say that ISIS and related terrorist groups are not Sunnis at all, but Kharijite heretics serving an imperial anti-Islamic agenda. Salafists such as ISIS believe that only a legitimate authority can undertake the leadership of jihad, and that the first priority over other areas of combat, such as fighting against non-Muslim countries, is the purification of Islamic society.

         This picture depicts the idea that there is no negotiating with this terrorist group and that they must be completely destroyed. ISIS has one plan and one plan only, and that is to get there own Islamic state. They will stop at nothing until they reach their goal.