tinydancer
Diamond Member
They're a brand and they are global. Ruh roh. How to screen for jihadists coming into the country when they are world wide now.
Whoopsies! Should have taken them out a couple of years ago. But noooooooooooooooooo. Assad had to go first because you know we in the west have every right to ask other leaders to step down.
Now they are an international organization spanning the world.
Special. Just freaking special.
"Dr Christina Schori Liang, a senior fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, told MailOnline ISIS had simply fostered a brand which was so effective other terror groups wanted to be associated with it.
She said: 'They appear to others to be very high performance and this increases their legitimacy. If one market dries up they always have others they fall back upon and other terrorist groups can see that.
'It offers these groups global recognition that they are part of one of the most effective terrorist organisations in the world. It's just the idea that they're part of a greater social movement.'
Using methods Dr Liang said were akin to a successful start-up company, ISIS has created its own markets - such as its illicit oil trade - while also spreading itself further to tap into other revenue.
Dr Liang said she feared ISIS and its vast array of affiliates would soon extend beyond their symbolic and ideological ties to start operating like a multinational company.
She explained: 'It's kind of like a mafia organisation. Everyone has their own business and if they co-operate more I can see them extending their businesses to one another - so it could enrich them even further.
'I think of ISIS as always looking for new markets. They may not necessarily get into the [other groups'] market, but will take a piece of the cut.'"
How ISIS is recruiting terror groups from across the planet
Whoopsies! Should have taken them out a couple of years ago. But noooooooooooooooooo. Assad had to go first because you know we in the west have every right to ask other leaders to step down.
Now they are an international organization spanning the world.
Special. Just freaking special.
"Dr Christina Schori Liang, a senior fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, told MailOnline ISIS had simply fostered a brand which was so effective other terror groups wanted to be associated with it.
She said: 'They appear to others to be very high performance and this increases their legitimacy. If one market dries up they always have others they fall back upon and other terrorist groups can see that.
'It offers these groups global recognition that they are part of one of the most effective terrorist organisations in the world. It's just the idea that they're part of a greater social movement.'
Using methods Dr Liang said were akin to a successful start-up company, ISIS has created its own markets - such as its illicit oil trade - while also spreading itself further to tap into other revenue.
Dr Liang said she feared ISIS and its vast array of affiliates would soon extend beyond their symbolic and ideological ties to start operating like a multinational company.
She explained: 'It's kind of like a mafia organisation. Everyone has their own business and if they co-operate more I can see them extending their businesses to one another - so it could enrich them even further.
'I think of ISIS as always looking for new markets. They may not necessarily get into the [other groups'] market, but will take a piece of the cut.'"
How ISIS is recruiting terror groups from across the planet
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