very interesting mr. rouge.
So these are Sunnis? Why the strict religious bs?
What's US involvement/ benefit here?
Yes they are Sunnis, the strict laws are their hook to gain more power. You have to go back a little bit to understand the present. Saddam Hussein was a Sunni, Sunnis in Iraq are only about 1/5 of the population. When he was in power the people in government were Sunnis, the business elites were Sunnis, the kids getting higher education were Sunnis etc. The Shia, the majority, were third world poor without opportunities like any other poor country. After 2003 the US installed a semi "represented democracy" government, thus giving the Shia's government control.
ISIS is a mafia group, they have more in common with the Mexican Zeta's and Italian Camorra than with Al-Qaeda. Of course their propaganda is this strict bullshit. They say they want to create an Islamic country run by supreme religious leaders and not by any western type government. This state will expand in the Middle East country by country instilling Muslim law, eventually expanding all over the world where we all will live like the Prophet Mohammed wants us to live. This plays perfect to their propaganda.
When they first started in Syria they were like the several other rebel groups, fighting along against the Syrian government. But remember they are a mafia and they started profiting. The Free Syrian Army, the main rebel group in Syria, noticed they weren't helping the cause but instead racketeering. Extortion, theft, kidnappings, taxes, etc. So the FSA started battling them, and kicked them out of the areas they control. ISIS, with a bankroll and fighters, started moving east. They refined their propaganda. The Iraqi business elites of old, remember mostly Sunnis, want to fuck the current government and pretty much opened the doors for ISIS in the Sunni majority areas. And that's where we are today, the capitalist and the mafia in cahoots.
Using extreme propaganda to expand their gang. They are paying $2000 monthly salary to each gang member. One thing Al-Qaeda never did was kill Muslims indiscriminately, these people don't care. It's all about the money. It's eerie how similar they are to the Zetas.
What the US and any other sensible free market country want is for the oil not to be touch!!1
But ISIS wants the oil for world domination!!!!!!11