Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, 1602

Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, 1602
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Monday, November 17, 2014

Is ISIS slowing down? (Blog #5)






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         As large parts of Iraq are taken over by ISIS, Nouri al-Maliki, who won the 30 April elections, faces dissent between Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds in Parliament as well, making the future leadership in Iraq very uncertain. This cartoon was drawn by a Syrian cartoonist, Yaser Abo Hamed, who is now living in Australia to protect himself. The cartoon is designed to express the belief that the Syrian government has things with ISIS under control, when really ISIS is not slowing down and still is pushing for more power in the Middle East. The artist is drawing this to show that if the government truly believes that ISIS is complete with its reign of terror that they are sadly mistaken. Or the artist could be drawing this because he knows that the government knows that they don't have things with ISIS under control and that they are just saying this to calm the public. Either way ISIS is still a major problem and threat to all nations around the world and if they are not stopped soon a major problem will arise.

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