Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

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Throughout history Christians have faced persecution from different types of ethnic and other religious groups. From verbal harassment to hostile feelings, Christians have paid severe religious restrictions and a heavy price for their faith. Christians have faced beheading, imprisonment, and torture and the destruction of Christian properties such as their churches and other origins of their religion. They live in fear of their lives for wanting to practice their religion. Many Christians feel isolated and alone because their religion is being oppressed. They have reached historic levels of persecution in 2014 with more than 100 million Christians risking their lives for merely practicing their religion. ISIS (The Islamic Nation) had threatened …show more content…
The Islamic nation started out as a small insurgent group in Iraq around 2006. They started as an al Qaeda splinter group by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Very little is known of the organizations leader. A public known fact about Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi is that he was born in the north of Baghdad in Samara. He had initially been a leader in emerged as a leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. “Baghdadi is regarded as a battlefield commander and tactician, which analysts say makes his group more attractive to young jihadists than al-Qaeda, which is led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Islamic theologian,” (BBC). They had no money and no ability to recruit new members. In 2009 they shifted their focus from Iraq, where there was no real progress being made, to Syria. They started off as a no name insurgent group and quickly grew into a frightful modern terrorist group. The weapons that the United States, the Saudis, Jordan, Qatar, Turkey, and Israel had provided for Syrian freedom fighters, had ended up in the hands of ISIS rebel fighters. Their ability to grab military gear from other nations and the fact that they are seizing oil fields in Iraq and Syria has had a great effect on how powerful the Islamic State has become. A majority of their funding comes from the oil fields they have seized and smuggled. Oil is a great commodity within the Middle East. The Middle East is known to have about 42 percent of the oil reserves in the world. The Islamic nation is known for their funding through the the smuggling and production of oil. ISIS has taken control of oil wells and refineries in northern Iraq and northern Syria. “But the group has another method of funding itself: through organized crime within the territories it has vanquished and now controls,” (How ISIS makes its millions). Currently, the Islamic nation controls hundreds of square miles and ignores international
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