ISIS has recently made lethal threats to the Holy Roman See, stating, “ We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah, the Exalted,” stated the propaganda video titled “A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross” that was released by ISIS in February. In response the Vatican has increased security. Rome’s chief of police, Giuseppe Pecoraro, has ordered an additional 500 officers to help.
This story is important because the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or otherwise known as ISIS is threatening to destroy the Vatican, any religion related to Roman Catholicism or any religion that tries to stop ISIS, and to destroy Western democracy and take over the world and people need to know what is going on in the world. This topic is something that everyone needs to know about because this concerns millions of people and ISIS’s threat is very real and very dangerous. This issue concerns the entire Christian population and anyone Europe, the Americas, and anyone who helps these people.
“ISIS has issues with any organization, nation or people who do not believe in their ideals. The Catholic Church can be seen as participants in offensive against Muslims, as ISIS would see it,” said Mr. Jaime Cavazos, social studies teacher.
ISIS has been a part of society for a while now. They just haven’t been able to get enough funding before now. Outside sources provide for and invest in them, almost as if they are mercenaries. They use this money for better weapons, ammo, training, as well as necessary supplies. This massive jump in funding has made them a major threat to the lives of people in their own region, and people around the world.
ISIS is an extremist group, they will stop at nothing to get what they want. They’ll even go the lengths of killing thousands of innocent people just to make a point. And it doesn’t help that people all around the world, not just in Syria, are falling prey to ISIS’s tricks and propaganda. This has made the threat all around the world.
Recently three young doctors from the United Kingdom left the UK for Syria. Whether or not it was to join ISIS, these young men joined the growing list of men and women that left their country and family to go to Syria to join ISIS or fight for their cause. In the Paris attacks French citizens joined in to help the ISIS operatives in the shooting of four Jewish people. Not only for their religion, but for the simple fact that they portrayed Muhammad, the prophet for the muslim religion, in ink. Which is not allowed in the Qur’an, the muslim bible. Many women have joined ISIS including a 15 year old girl from the UK. Three other girls from her school followed her in suit to join ISIS.
“The biggest threat ISIS poses is the “lone wolf” scenario, where individuals carry out terrorist acts in the name of ISIS. We have seen a few of this in Europe.” said Mr. Cavazos.