One Reason Why Men Join ISIS is Not Flattering for the ‘Caliphate’

Business Insider
By: Pamela Engel

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ISIS has been met with some popular support in Iraq and Syria, but much of it might come from people’s desire for survival rather than authentic support for the militants’ ideology.

Reporters for The Washington Post interviewed dozens of people who have lived under ISIS’s rule in Iraq and Syria and found that many people join the terror group out of desperation and a lack of other options…

The strategic security firm The Soufan Group noted last month that “more people are visibly fleeing [ISIS] and the areas it controls than are flocking to join it.”

“In an attempt to change the minds of people who would rather risk drowning than live in the Islamic State, the group has ramped up its propaganda efforts,” The Soufan Group said…

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