The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a Sunni, extremist, jihadist rebel group based in Iraq and Syria where it controls territory.

 

ISIS also operates in eastern Libya, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and other areas of the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

 

Below are the things ISIS believes in most: 

 

They wish to create a caliphate to establish its own utopia.

A caliphate is essentially a unified Islamic civilization. Caliphates have existed in many forms throughout history, including, most recently, the Ottoman Empire.

 

The leader of ISIS believes that he is fighting on behalf of all Muslims.

Islam is followed by over 1 billion people; however, the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has the right to believe that he fights on behalf of all of them.

 

ISIS wants to exterminate the Yazidi people, and believes that they are “devil worshippers.”

 

The Yazidi people are an ethno-religious minority located primarily in Northern Iraq. Their religion combines elements of both Zoroastrianism and Islam, which has led ISIS to label them as “devil-worshippers.”

 

ISIS believes that those who do not convert to its version of Islam should be executed; it wants to cleanse the world of those who do not believe what it believes.

 

ISIS condones using fear and brutality as tactics for its supremacy.

 

ISIS believes that by killing those who do not serve its cause, it’s making the world a better place.

 

It believes in burying women and children alive in the name of its cause.

 

It believes that slavery is okay.(by the way slavery is not okay).

 

ISIS believes that it will take over parts of Africa, Asia and Europe over the next five years.

 

ISIS believes that violence is the path to paradise.(violence is never a means to an end).

 

 

The group has attracted widespread criticism internationally for its extremism, from governments and international bodies such as the United Nations and Amnesty International.

 

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon declared: "As Muslim leaders around the world have said, groups like ISIL – or Da’ish -- have nothing to do with Islam, and they certainly do not represent a state. They should more fittingly be called the "Un-Islamic Non-State".