Why business is booming under Islamic State one year on

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Some more background on why they will be tough to dislodge....

 

Linguist and activist Noam Chomsky talks with an Iraq War veteran and answers questions collected by human rights activists from people currently living under siege in Fallujah, Iraq. The interviewer, Ross Caputi, is a veteran of the 2nd US-led siege of Fallujah. He is on the Board of Directors of the Islah Reparations Project (www.reparations.org).

 

Chomsky emphasizes that the Islamic State is an offshoot of the politically motivated religious ideology of American allies in the Middle East like Saudi Arabia and Qatar that use extremist Wahhabi ideology to control the region. Chomsky also points out that the United States is isolating and demonizing nations and movements in Syria and Iran that are working tirelessly to stop ISISs expansion, but adds that ISIS is enforcing an imperialist agenda of deteriorating the Middle East and North Africa for better control of the region through divide and conquer.

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http://www.mintpressnews.com/noam-chomsky-isis-grew-out-of-iraq-war-enforces-imperialist-agenda/205663/

Edited June 15, 2015 by JTSP

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Offering Services, ISIS Digs In Deeper in Seized Territories http://nyti.ms/1dHyl1H

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/inside-islamic-state-groups-rule-creating-nation-fear-31866694

 

"Inside the Islamic State's realm, the paper testifying that you have "repented" from your heretical past must be carried at all times. Many people laminate it just to be safe. It can mean the difference between life and death."

 

"Each time the Islamic State group overruns a community, the pattern has been roughly similar, AP found — as methodical as it is bloody.

 

First comes an initial wave of killings of police and troops. Then the fighters often seek to garner support by quickly repairing electricity and water lines. They call on bureaucrats to return to work. Government employees and any former troops or policemen sign their "repentance" papers and must hand over their weapons or pay fines sometimes amounting to several thousand dollars.

 

In loudspeaker announcements, mosque sermons and leaflets, new regulations are laid out: No smoking, no alcohol, and no women working except as nurses or in women's clothing shops, where even mannequins in store windows are covered. Residents said they were required to build walls outside their homes so women would never be seen."

 

"Soon after came another gruesome moment. One of the top Islamic State judges in the area, a local man known by the pseudonym Abu Ali al-Sharei, dropped by in early February to teach another lesson in Islamic law to the prisoners. He made small talk with a roomful of them. Then he grinned and said, "Listen, I haven't told you yet, but today we made al-Kaseasbeh crispy."

 

He took a flash drive out of his pocket, Adnan said, and, to the prisoners' horror, played them footage of captured Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive in a cage by his IS captors."

 

"During Islamic holidays late last year, he said, militants announced in mosques that it was forbidden to visit the graves of relatives, a holiday tradition that IS sees as encouraging polytheism. Abu Zein's uncle had died of cancer the year before, so he, his cousin and another relative decided to defy the ban."

 

"Residents are banned from leaving their cities without first applying for permission, filling out a long form with all their personal details and setting property as a guarantee that IS will seize if they don't return. Women must apply to the Hisba to travel and are often refused permission, out of concern that they will not follow IS dress codes once they are out."

 

"People hate them, but they've despaired, and they don't see anyone supporting them if they rise up," said a 28-year-old Syrian who asked to be identified only by the nickname he uses in political activism, Adnan, in order to protect his family still living under IS rule. "People feel that nobody is with them."