Profiling ISIS through their propaganda

Abstract

The study of my dissertation is "Profiling ISIS through their Propaganda‟. Throughout history there have been a number of terrorist groups, however, ISIS proved to be a very powerful outstanding group, recruiting people from all over the globe and performing all forms of atrocities one of which is the beheadings. These atrocities are condemned by the United Nations and even by certain terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaeda. The importance of ISIS is that it transformed the global security and intelligence system as the world faces enormous threats by ISIS. This dissertation examines the reality of ISIS and gives suggestions as to how one can restrict ISIS. Although ISIS utilizes various social media, for example twitter, for their propaganda the first eight Dabiq issues were chosen for this dissertation and three themes were evaluated in depth, taking the main issues which characterise ISIS that are: the use of propaganda and media, the use of religion and the methods of recruitment. A thematic analysis approach was chosen for this dissertation. In this way, information was collected through eight Dabiq issues, and sustained by other professional literature. The phases of this dissertation were shown together with the restrictions and strong points of this study. This study gives various suggestions to counteract ISIS, such as stopping the ISIS financial flow, disrupt the relocation of ISIS manpower and resources, aim at ISIS‟s leadership, contradict ISIS‟s social media and stabilize Iraq and Syria.