Issue 02 Preaching for the planetBlog | Preach the news RESPONDING TO ISIS
Preach the news RESPONDING TO ISIS
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 09.03.15
Each fortnight on PreachWeb.org, Martin Saunders considers how to tackle current affairs from the pulpit. Here, in a post from February 2015, he looks at the threat posed by the group sometimes referred to as ISIS.
What’s the story?
The brutal Islamic fundamentalist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (variously known as IS, ISIL or ISIS) has continued a campaign of almost unparalleled evil against the people of Iraq, Syria and now Libya – as a watching world struggles to know how to intervene or respond.
What’s happening?
Jihadist group ISIS aims to create a ‘caliphate’ – an Islamic State in the Middle East, centring in Iraq. Its horrifically violent methods, a mix of widespread slaughter and abuse, and the provocative murder of high-profile hostages on camera, have met with global disdain and outrage.
ISIS has existed for more than 15 years, but in the last year, its activities have widened and accelerated quickly. At first, reports suggesting the group were barbarically executing women and children were largely dismissed as exaggeration,
