What If ISIS Offered You A Fabulous Job With Excellent Perks? Would You Take It?

Two years ago, they were almost unheard of. Today, they are everyday's news. The speed at which their popularity is escalating is not the bone we have to chew. It is indeed their ruthless conquests, demands, and neanderthal interpretations of a religion that was charted almost 1400 years ago. They started off slow. But the momentum at which they seem to be going is nothing less than spine-chilling. They are trained to the skull, muscled with ambition, funded without regrets, and bestowed with the power to execute the world without any consequences. ISIS is no longer a tag-wearing intern. The barrels have changed. ISIS is now a robust and steady organisation building its business greater than ever before and exponentially expanding larger than any other extremist organisation had ever attempted to. What if you were to receive an email from ISIS about a prospective job offer with progressive growth options and all the perks that you have always wanted. Would you take it up?
Headquartered at Ar-Raqqah, Syria, after capturing it in the Syrian Civil War, 2011, the Islamic State has since then been a global eagle, scouting for prey across the far horizons. Overseas candidates are welcomed with open arms (no pun).

Its open-air theatre of “serving” justice and the strategic consecutive seizures around its illustrious epicentres have enabled the Islamic State to receive an applaud of a palette of fame that not only comes free of cost, but also comes with the girth of being second to none.

As beings of the first order, we are encumbered by the obligation to be good or bad. To do the right thing. Or the wrong thing. But to be inbetween, we are told and have witnessed is a sin. ISIS, has ensured that it has left no stone unturned in taking full advantage from the metaphysics of this propaganda. That is, to proclaim the right and wrong, when it published its memorandum for the caliphate in June 2014.

Right, being 'join us or die', for we are the chosen people. Wrong, being the infidels, everyone else who is not them (including people of their own faith). “The legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organisations becomes null by the expansion of the caliphate's authority and arrival of its troops to their areas.” - The declaration made by ISIS in its caliphate manifesto, doesn't spare much for imagination as it openly disregards and rejects all the previous middle eastern political agreements drafted during World War 1 in the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Multiple events have shown that their audacity can't be diffused by bombs and air-strikes alone, as their ground force continues to rattle the bones of war craftsmen.

Not failing to empathise with the interpretation of the school that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link – to keep its precious pupils happy and to provide them with a home away from home, the Islamic State has compromised on its hardcore prohibitions of allowing women on-board in the cause for jihad.

As of the latter half of 2015, the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation provided that there are 30 European women who have flown to Iraq and Syria to support their devout jihadist husbands, and in the provision of being unmarried, take the hand of a fighter from the Islamic State for marriage.

Women, have always played a passive role in wars. Stitching battle wounds, nursing wounded souls, and replenishing soldiers through care and wisdom for them to keep going.

Despite the hardline confiscation of all online assets (accounts and passwords) from its recruits before they are inducted (a measure taken to affirm the allegiance to the caliphate), dozens of boys in high school and college in the US, Canada, and European countries are still very enthusiastic and anticipatory of their collaboration with the Islamic State.

Near the dusk of 2014, the US State Department confirmed a dozen American citizens to be fighting with the ISIS, as the Canadian government declared that 130 of its people were in the cocoons of ISIS, and the British government, being the most candid, with its claim of 500 citizens, who were reportedly active in the affairs of the Islamic State.

Mubin Shaikh, an ex-Taliban recruiter who recruited jihadists from across the world sitting behind his computer desk at his home in Toronto, says that ISIS proactively looked for two types of people. Those who didn't know the religion much and the converts. The converts would normally have issues with their parents, so they were a weak target. In case you are wondering, Mubin Shaikh is now working as a national security operative for the Canadian government.

The guns, the bullets, the sex slaves, and the “honour” of fighting for jihad will be on the house. But what about the blood on your hands? Whether you justify that in the name of God or war, the fact remains that you chose what you chose.

The Islamic State is not too far from raising stock options. Its current form of organisation provides a regular stipend to its recruits, employs women that sort of provides a gender-balance solace, and encourages extensive diversity (though after induction, Islam is the only religion the recruits have to follow).

ISIS was, ISIS is, and ISIS will be a dangerous acronym until time crushes its legacy. Its expansion could mean only one thing. Our dissolution. So it doesn't matter if they are called ISIS, ISIL, or IS and its men being termed fighters, extremists or jihadists.

Apparently, in the tenure of the Islamic State, once the jihadist has paid his dues, he will be assigned or voluntarily take up the designation of a suicide bomber (to be read as “martyrdom”), and for the ones who don't die, will get to have their stakes in media relations or the police force. So good luck with that.

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