Islamic State and how Muslims are discriminated!
An Islamic state (Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية‎ ad-dawlah al-Islamiyah) is a type of government primarily based on the application of shari'a (Islamic law), dispensation of justice, maintenance of law and order. From the early years of Islam, numerous governments have been founded as "Islamic."
However, the term "Islamic state" has taken on a more specific connotation since the 20th century. The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) burst on to the international scene in 2014 when it seized large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. It has become notorious for its brutality, including mass killings, abductions and beheadings. The group though has attracted support elsewhere in the Muslim world - and a US-led coalition has vowed to destroy it.
The most brutal form of the Islamic state is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL aka ISIS) which is a Sunni Muslim movement and gained ground in Iraq and Syria post fall of Saddam Hussain in Iraq. The group declared Abu-Bakr-Al-Baghdadi as the new Caliph. Its stated objective is to go back to the religious practices as it existed during the early years of Islam and bring the entire world under an Islamic rule (Dar-ul-Islam). The ISIL has been responsible for unleashing one of the most violent regimes including institutionalizing the system of sex slaves as booty of war, suppression of women and scientific education, persecution of the minorities as well as other non-Sunni believers in area under its control. The ISIL is also held responsible for carrying out acts of terrorism in different parts of the world.
After the terrorist attacks Friday night in Paris, it did not take long for anti-Muslim forces to lash out around the world.
A mosque in Canada was deliberately set on fire Saturday, Ontario police say. In Oregon, anti-Muslim protesters held a rally outside the Portland Rizwan Mosque, one of them with a shirt that said “Proud to be an infidel. Islam is a LIE.”
And in France, while politicians stressed national unity, local news outlets reported several incidents of mosques, kebab restaurants and halal butcher shops being vandalized with hate messages. A tribute in Lille for the victims of the attacks was disrupted by demonstrators carrying a banner that read: “Expel the Islamists.”
This is what the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, wants. “This is precisely what ISIS was aiming for — to provoke communities to commit actions against Muslims,” said Arie Kruglanski, a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland who studies how people become terrorists. “Then ISIS will be able to say, ‘I told you so. These are your enemies, and the enemies of Islam.”
The moments after a terrorist attack are often filled with acts of reprisal. In the six months after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, anti-Muslim violence and mosque vandalism more than quadrupled compared with the same period in 2014, according to the Collective against Islamophobia in France, a watchdog group.
Extremist groups feed off of alienation, some counterterrorism experts say, and Islamist militants deliberately aim to make Muslims in the West feel isolated and turn against their own communities. According to this line of thinking, acts of terrorism widen the cultural divide by provoking hate crimes against Muslims in the West. This strategy gained traction in the early 2000s after al-Qaeda was sent into hiding by Western military action. Abu Musab al-Suri, an influential jihadi thinker whom the Wall Street Journal called “the new mastermind of jihad,” argued for a distributed network of terrorist cells recruited from the Islamic diaspora, carrying out terrorist strikes in their own communities. These attacks, and the backlash they generated, would inspire other to radicalize.