Comparison of ISIS and Al Qaeda: Ideologies and Strategies

Compare and Contrast ISIS to Al
Qaeda
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Al Qaeda.................................................................................................................................3
ISIS.........................................................................................................................................4
Compare Islamic state and Al-Qaeda’s ideology on Jihad and Caliphate..............................6
Contrast in between ISIS and Al Qaeda.................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Muslims holds one of the major proportions across the all religions worldwide. Leaders of
this religions have formulated different groups and association for expanding their command
across the world and lead all communities. Al Qaeda and ISIS are two of the major terrorists
based organizations who are not executing their non humanity based activities in the name of
religious work (Holbrook, 2015). Both the organisations follows different ideologies according
to which work of both the nations are executed in the lucrative form. It has also been analysed
that both the organisations indulges into major terrorist based activities across the world in order
to revenge from their enemies and enhancing their power across the world with the motive of
ruling them all. In this project, detailed explanation on both the religious group has been
explained. Along with this, the different ideologies followed by them are also explained in
detailed manner. Furthermore, appropriate information on the same ideologies in the form of
comparison and contrast has been explained further detailed manner.
MAIN BODY
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda is seen as the Islamic militant based organisation which was propounded by
Osama bin laden in late 1980s that is the in the year 1988. Al Qaeda basically operates its
operational activities as the network of Islamic extremist and salafist jihadists. Many nations like
United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European
Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, and other nations has considered it
as the terrorist group which is planning lots of criminal and terrorist activities against them that
not only affects the human life but also pale major negative impact over the growth of the nation
(Raineri and Martini, 2017). Al Qaeda has attacked many nations with the usage of its military
including the September 11 attacks, embassy bombing in United States in the year 1998 and
Bali bombings in the year 2002. This organisation faces many kind of obstacles from the nations
too on whom they have attacked in the past year. The respective government of United States has
taken revenge of September 11 attacks by introducing war on terror which has affected Al Qaeda
as well as its allies a lot. The main among them was the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin
Laden who was handling all the activities of this organisation from the planning to execution
their terrorist activities. After the death of this leader that is Osama bin Laden the overall
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