11 Reasons Why ISIS is more Dangers than Obama's "Decimated" Al-Qaeda

By Elizabeth Nelson

"The Iraq war is over, al-Qaeda has been decimated and Osama Bin Laden is dead."  I'll continue once your eyes have stopped rolling in the back of your head. We all understand how Obama works by now, once the words escape his lips, whether they are true or not, we are supposed to believe them as fact and they become reality, regardless. 

However, now we are facing an America that, because of his policies, we aren't safe and we are staring at an ISIS Army that is more terrifying than al-Qaeda, who is still around, ever thought of being.   Here are eleven reasons why ISIS is more dangerous and pose such a demonstrative security threat, more so  than "decimated" al-Qaeda, pre-9/11.

1. ISIS is more media sophisticated than al-Qaeda and excels in using social media as a tool of terrorism. The group’s twitter and YouTube postings in English show that the West is often their target audience.

2. ISIS is flush with cash. ISIS’ territorial control allows for consistent stream of funding, and they‘ve developed an extensive extortion racket, as well as selling electricity and exporting oil and gas.

3. Because of ISIS rise to prominence, many al-Qaeda-linked groups are now pledging allegiance to al-Baghdadi’s ISIS, including elements of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Ansar al-Dine (Tunisia) Boko Haram, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), giving ISIS access to a global network of terrorists.

4. ISIS controls territory the size of Maryland in the heart of the arab world, which is important for a predominantly Arab revolutionary terrorist group. The al-Qaeda core group along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border controls no territory and is dependent on Afghan and Pakistani Islamist militants who act as hosts.

5. ISIS has evolved into a proto-state, with its own army, civil administration, judiciary and a sophisticated propaganda operation. Al-Qaeda core leaders are fugitives who are forced to live a clandestine existence under the constant threat of drone strikes or commando assaults.

6. ISIS is the most heavily-armed Islamist extremist group in history, having captured huge amounts of military weapons and equipment in Iraq and Syria.

7. ISIS is out-recruiting Al-Qaeda. It is estimated that 80 percent of the foreign militants that flock to Syria join ISIS, rather than al-Qaeda’s franchise, the Al-Nusra Front. ISIS appears to have success with recruitment of Westerners as well.

8. The leader of ISIS, who goes by the nom de guerre of Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, is a charismatic leader who claims descent from the Prophet Mohammed. This will help recruit young, impressionable Muslims. He has much more personal appeal for young Muslim militants than Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a dour and didactic theoretician.

9. ISIS is better placed to not only attract recruits from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States, but get them into the fight. It is much easier to travel across the dissolving borders of Iraq and Syria than it is to travel to Pakistan or Afghanistan.

10. ISIS has declared the rebirth of the Caliphate and the leader of ISIS has proclaimed himself to be Caliph Ibrahim.

11. ISIS is the richest terrorist group in history. It looted at least five banks in Iraq, including Mosul’s central bank, which yielded more than $400 million dollars in gold and Iraqi currency. It controls oil fields in Syria and Iraq that generate income and it has pocketed millions of dollars in ransoms for hostages.  Read more Daily Signal

Obama has done nothing but underestimate ISIS, "the Jayvee team," from the beginning.  However, now we can all see that this is far from  the "Jayvee team, as ISIS is not just a terror group, ISIS is an army now, thanks to Obama's lead from behind failure to act.

 ISIS has now become the biggest terrorist group ever and now has 28 tanks, including American Abrams, in its Army. 

They have actually been established as a state and a caliphate at that, and it’s now exceeded the wealth of it's predecessor, al-Qaeda, and ISIS has exceeded the territory that al-Qaeda once held, so that has caused it to draw more recruits than al-Qaeda, including our Americans fighting for ISIS. 

We don't have to even mention which group is more merciless, especially when it was Al-Qaeda who cut ties with ISIS in 2009-2010, because ISIS was more brutal and they followed through with their, "Convert to die" mentality, and al-Qaeda just couldn't stomach it.  This is not an army that can just be "resisted," this is an Army that has to be decimated.  Not only do they make their hate and their intentions known, but they follow through with them.