The Islamic state being dubbed isis made it really god damned motherfucking difficult to do research into the Egyptian goddess Isis, and even the birds called the Ibis for a while. Half the time google would be like did you mean to search for the terrorists.
@aceundead47507 ай бұрын
my GFs horse at the time was called Isis. it kinda fit, that beast was also a terrorist
@Max-hw7xl7 ай бұрын
It also meant they had to rename the agency in Archer a bunch of times lol
@liquidocelot59767 ай бұрын
There is an isis prison I'm the uk
@nifralo27527 ай бұрын
... only western people and journalists still call them ISIS!! Obama only said ISIL.. the Arabs say Daish (or like that)...
@cDTeVe7 ай бұрын
Here's a little tip, you can search Isis Taylor instead. It's good for research purposes
@royalroyal22107 ай бұрын
I flew over Mosul a few months after the city was retaken. Even from the sky you could see it was completely ruined. Those poor people deserve peace after so many years of shear brutality.
@marshaltito72327 ай бұрын
Must be horrific and urban devastated
@sea_clicks7 ай бұрын
the battle to retake Mosul was horrifically brutal and caused much of the destruction you will have seen, especially in the desperate last stand in the old city where they even destroyed the Mosque that Baghdadi originally announced his caliphate in
@joeyates39097 ай бұрын
Feel so sorry for the civilians, isis took hostages as human shields, kept men woman and children in rooms without food and water for weeks on end, separated men from their families only to slaughter them when liberation forces were closing in. Heartbreaking
@Giantist7 ай бұрын
@@Giantistand these monsters claim themselves to be men of God, hah!
@BasileosHerodou7 ай бұрын
@marshaltito7232, out of curiosity, where’d you take of and what city were you headed towards when you flew over?
@rando90337 ай бұрын
The youtube algorithm didnt like this video at all lol. I'm glad that you still push content that people need, even when our censorship overlords dont like it (:
@lazytommy07 ай бұрын
speak about not liking, I can't watch the video at all, becuase when I click on proceed after the warning, it redirects me away from the video
@modal_derp7 ай бұрын
@@modal_derp yeah it did that to me a few times. Try watching it on a different device. It refused me on computer but on mobile it let me watch after the warning
@lazytommy07 ай бұрын
I was actually surprised to have this video with a viewer discretion warning recommended on the frontpage. I've never had a video with a warning recommended yet.
@randomchannelgandalf7 ай бұрын
Yep. Never had to click more than once to watch on YT. This is a first.
@ZMB-on5ub7 ай бұрын
@@randomchannelgandalfSimon Whistler has had a few on his into the Shadows Channel
@GrievousReborn7 ай бұрын
"Parasite"...perfect description...i would also call it a "Cancer"
@jaws6667 ай бұрын
CIA Assets would be more apt.
@sleepyjoe75187 ай бұрын
Like Islam
@MateoMPM7 ай бұрын
ISIS: "let's return our technology to c.600AD!" How? "AK47s (c.1949) and social media (c.2004)"
@mh87487 ай бұрын
Just shows how incredibly stupid they are
@onejediboi7 ай бұрын
Finally no cheesy stock footage! Happy you’ve brought back legitimate historical footage even if you need to put a warning on the video
@TheDirtCook7 ай бұрын
How’s your free KZhead channel?
@tomcarlton87607 ай бұрын
It was KZhead who added the warning, they hate any kind of modern transformative content related to "terrorism".
@pvt.potato19437 ай бұрын
@@pvt.potato1943 Almost a guaranteed sign that the video is demonetized as well.
@NitroDragon7 ай бұрын
The KZhead algorithm almost certainly demonetized this video and added the warning the moment it was uploaded. Probably buried it deep so that it's hard to search for as well. I only found it through the embed at the end of the last video I watched on this channel.
@semaj_50227 ай бұрын
I think something you should of mentioned is that ISIS managed to radicalise a 10 year old boy in England, and that boy ended up managing some operations, such as a planned attack on ANZAC day here in Australia, but not just any ANZAC day, the 100th anniversary Edit: I should just clear the air that the kid was not physically a part of the attack, he was communicating with a man who intended to perform the attack
@JBRAI227 ай бұрын
yes this is a clear sign that the internet cannot be allowed to be what it currently is. nobody under 21 should be on social media
@007kingifrit7 ай бұрын
Edgy kids amirite?
@C-Farsene_57 ай бұрын
@@007kingifrit I say 13+ but you have to pass a test to see how susceptible you are and it should only apply to Social Media and online communications (except for apps like messages and stuff so you can communicate with family)
@JBRAI227 ай бұрын
@JBRAI22 lmao you guys are SO BRAINEASHED TO GIVE UP YOUR FREEDOMS FOR TEMPORARY SECURITY! HAHA YOU DESERVE NEITHER!
@timothy29357 ай бұрын
@@JBRAI22 well i don't know where you came up with 13+ but i have a littany of studies on how social media affects young people and 13 is not old enough
@007kingifrit7 ай бұрын
Simon and all the members of your team: thank you and I owe you a beer. I'm a history teacher and I'm currently teaching about this group. This will help them immensly! Cheers mates!
@jackkurze26187 ай бұрын
Love Simon, he's the best!🍻
@matthewgrove-jones30017 ай бұрын
Ily too
@_divinityyy7 ай бұрын
I hope you don't join this terrorist group.....😂😂
@yoyohoneysingh11437 ай бұрын
Make sure not to leave out the cruelty of Assad's government and their hand in these affairs. For reference check out Christopher Reuters work on the subject.
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
@@Hayanomie I don't sugarcoat history, so Assad's dealings are also a part of it.
@jackkurze26187 ай бұрын
I remember watching a documentary about the Kurds fighting Isis and they said they called them Daesh as a disrespect
@deathbeforedishonor90127 ай бұрын
I called them that as well. I don't like that the acronym of their name is identical to one of my favorite gods.
@RoseNZieg7 ай бұрын
Daesh roughly translates to "bigot" in Arabic. It actually fits quite well.
@badluck56477 ай бұрын
@@RoseNZieg Okay Marquess of Queensberry
@jffry8907 ай бұрын
Rest in peace to those that passed away. I really hope we defeat IS for good.
@multiyapples7 ай бұрын
It’s an idea at this point idk if we can we clearly can’t bomb our way out of this
@smokedbeefandcheese41447 ай бұрын
The entire world needs to come together to thoroughly cleanse extremists all over the world, for IS to actually be eradicated.
@Thigamabob7 ай бұрын
Rest in peace to all the toyotas
@ahahuehafook42077 ай бұрын
It's more than an organization at this point it's an idea and ideas are not easily killed.
@GrievousReborn7 ай бұрын
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144 We certainly tried bombing, continues to this day. Vast improvements from 2014.
@USJTAC7 ай бұрын
Thank you Simon and Mr. Moloney for explaining all of this. The research alone was brutal.
@burningchrome707 ай бұрын
As a Syrian, why they play down the Syrian government's role in the creation of IS is beyond me.
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
@@Hayanomieit was 🇮🇱 Government created lSlS
@HK000887 ай бұрын
@@HK00088 hahahaha
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
@@HK00088 and yet you cannot provide one source or evidence for that you hypocrite deceiver. jahil
@tawheedfidunya7 ай бұрын
Don't forget to thank america for bombing the shit out of these terrorists
@24mmfilm407 ай бұрын
I worked 15 minutes from the San Bernardino, CA, USA terrorist attack. The craziest part of that attack is it basically occurred at a meeting of office worker municipal employees. Scientists, specialists, and clerical staff were gunned down at their company event. The couple who committed the attack lived in the safe, respectable, higher income city of Redlands. In the west we tend to think of terror attacks occurring in an exotic bazaar in a far off country... There is nowhere safe
@Felcaster7 ай бұрын
Better get on that gun control so that the bad people can’t go acquire them by legitimate means! Wait……
@stewartyates45107 ай бұрын
I mean it feels like your country has mass shootings almost every other week...
@RedDevilStudio7 ай бұрын
Lol OK....you're more likely to die in a car crash than a terrorist attack I feel safe enough for me
@kylefisher51387 ай бұрын
In the USA, an American is far more likely to be gunned down by a dirtbag loser kid(teens and 20s) at a grocery store or somewhere than be killed by an organized terrorist attack. Hell Americans are more likely to die slipping in the shower and hitting their head than be killed by an organized terrorist attack(excluding years with a successful "spectacular" like 9/11).
@imnotyourfriendbuddy18837 ай бұрын
Fear mongering much lmao
@Smearrrrrrgle7 ай бұрын
Leaving a comment so KZhead understands that there is nothing wrong with this video at all.
@comradecrawdaddy33437 ай бұрын
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Rise of the islamic state 6:55 - Chapter 2 - Syria, iraq & full scale war 17:20 - Chapter 3 - Battlefield defeat 25:15 - Chapter 4 - Global infection - Chapter 5 - - Chapter 6 -
@ignitionfrn22237 ай бұрын
TOYOTA!!!! 🎉
@ahahuehafook42077 ай бұрын
This is the guy? Ok. Hi, Achmed is it? Outstanding, I'm Staff Sergeant @#$%&* and this is our interpreter. Now, what happened today is, we were securing this AO when we found what we suspected to be a booby trap IED and decided the safest way to deal with it was to blow it in place with some C4. Umm... Yeah, sorry about your house. Hey Wex! Get a fire extinguisher and put out Achmed's coffee table, would ya? Anyway, the good news is that it wasn't a booby trap IED. We're thinking it might have been a record player. Soo... Sorry about your record player. Here's $6,000. Alrighty, we're good to go then. Welp, good luck Achmed, don't spend it all in one place. SAPPERS!!! Mount it up and move it out! We've gotta nation to build.
@satanicmicrochipv56567 ай бұрын
One of your best videos, Simon. Thank you for the great content!
@kevinwilliams66137 ай бұрын
This channel is rapidly becoming my favorite channel on this platform. Keep up the good work, Simon and crew!
@denielf.71696 ай бұрын
So glad to see Simon still making fantastic, well researched, highly informative content post the fall of TopTenz etc. Thank you, Simon. You really are the very best of KZhead.
@jaysalisbury1937 ай бұрын
Well researched? The whole video? 30min? Quick answer, no. Extended answer, some even can spot severe ignorance
@shayann22287 ай бұрын
@shayann2228 I get your point. What im saying is that many of us know very little (which is a shame) and don't have the time to do any research at all, so even if this isn't perfect, it still offers a better understanding to many, by the end, than what they had going in. Ignorant, maybe, but its surely better to understand some of it, however small, than none of it at all, right?
@jaysalisbury1937 ай бұрын
@@jaysalisbury193 However, this isn’t good at this point. When people start to believe that they know something, they will tell it to the world without doubt or any concern and they will entirely live with that (very little) knowledge, which they then describe as 'truth'. So, either being ignorant in one big matter and not damaging anyone, or damaging others with false knowledge that they have. Right?
@shayann22287 ай бұрын
@shayann2228 I don't know then, I've already said I don't know enough about this. I certainly don't know enough to be arguing with someone who does. Have a good night
@jaysalisbury1937 ай бұрын
@@shayann2228 any specific examples of where this is a poorly researched video?
@tylerf33697 ай бұрын
One of the best videos you have made in a long long time. Thank you, I know it must have been a difficult subject to research and produce.
@ianm77417 ай бұрын
Thank you Simon this is one of the best videos yet!
@devailica7 ай бұрын
Always a delight when I click on a new channel, and your face pops up Simon. I know it means quality writing, editing, hosting, and a ton of interesting information (and or laughs)
@cliquecommunity46557 ай бұрын
"Daesh" roughly translates to "bigot" in Arabic. It actually fits quite well.
@badluck56477 ай бұрын
Nope it translates as "dawla islamiya in Iraq-Syria" which means Islamic state of Iraq and Syria I'm NOT a supporter, I'm just clarifying facts
@DJZ3M7 ай бұрын
@@DJZ3Mالدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام (داعش). I remember the day they defeated the Iraqi army near Mosul and seized billions worth of military equipment. I thought that the Middle East was about to return to the stone age, fortunately the world literally stood up against Isis.
@hydoffdhagaweyne10377 ай бұрын
@@DJZ3M "Daesh" is an acronym, but if you pronounce the acronym, then it means bigot.
@badluck56477 ай бұрын
@@DJZ3M You are basically saying "MILF" can't be used mockingly for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. _Yes, it's real. Look it up._
@badluck56477 ай бұрын
@@badluck5647 yeah I get it here in Algeria we call them ba3a3ich which means insects Btw Algeria was not affected like the video stated the te-roes had only one failed operation other than that they didn't even try
@DJZ3M7 ай бұрын
Love the videos you guys make. Thank you Simon and co🙏
@w_a_b_b_i_t27817 ай бұрын
Well put together and well researched. Thanks.😊
@louis.b3337 ай бұрын
Very informative and educational.
@Tonius1267 ай бұрын
Brilliant and informative video, expertly told as per usual from Simon.
@chazclark867 ай бұрын
Comment for the algorithm! As always, a concise yet thorough analysis, a wonderful overview, and extremely entertaining! Thanks team Whistlerverse, you guys are the best!
@blinkanimals97207 ай бұрын
This is the sort of in depth research, and clarity of explanation, that I love about your channels.
@DeeplyStill4 ай бұрын
Great work, glad you put it up despite youtube being youtube
@flaffy3297 ай бұрын
Great episode!
@mitchbailey46507 ай бұрын
We had ‘former Canadians’ do the same thing. When they tried to come home, they were shocked when told to Ram it! 🇨🇦 Vet
@robandcheryls7 ай бұрын
Based Canada!
@EireHammer7 ай бұрын
The UN is still bitching about human rights to Iraq for those terrorists in prison. They offered nothing when the fight was going on!
@GeN56YoS7 ай бұрын
@@EireHammer was that a question?
@robandcheryls7 ай бұрын
@@robandcheryls typical a question has a question mark at the end.
@EireHammer7 ай бұрын
As a Syrian-Canadian they don't belong in Syria either. They never did. They belong in Canadian prisons and it's the fault of intelligence services that they were able to make it into Syria in the first place.
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
The destruction of Palmyra breaks my heart. Centuries of history lost to zealotry.
@skiba7897 ай бұрын
That was based 😂
@hanzalaomar99157 ай бұрын
Could've stopped them in their tracks if someone just airdropped loads of sexy goats in.
@Buster_Piles7 ай бұрын
@@tawheedfidunyaisis are the khawariji. Rassulollah saw warned us about these men. Don’t be an idiot. Read the quran and the sunnah and don’t fall for the khawariji’s tricks and fall down to jahannam with them.
@Monyato7 ай бұрын
@@tawheedfidunyaAllah was killed by Abu Tahir
@Prabhu108.7 ай бұрын
@@tawheedfidunyathose “idols” are part of the middle east’s history moron. allaenat ealayk.
@spartanracer7 ай бұрын
Great eye opening video!
@jasondrew57687 ай бұрын
Thank you for this
@realdreamerschangetheworld74707 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite Warographics videos
@nolancarte60157 ай бұрын
Insanely good video. Thank you
@tommy95657 ай бұрын
Great stuff as always
@jim-jam73047 ай бұрын
Just discovered your Channel. Wow, what a marvellous Host you are. Totally intriguing. Nice Style of Editing. Very entertaining. Looking forward to more Content from you. 👌🏻
@dergrosseeierman7 ай бұрын
I, like many, used to have that mindset of "It'll never effect me". That was until I was ever so nearly in the middle of a terror attack myself. I walked over Westminster Bridge in March 2017, literally just minutes before an attack took place by a car running people over killing several and injuring many. To think that we were so close to potential death, with a real terrorist just a matter of a few hundred meteres away from us killing people, this will haunt me for life. We unfortunately never came to the aid of any of the injured, as we'd just stepped foot into the Westminster Underground station as the attack took place, not realising anything had happened until we stepped foot at our final destination as there's pretty much no Internet at all whilst underground.
@sheldon97sheldon7 ай бұрын
Very sorry to hear this
@perigeehypertrophy59167 ай бұрын
Just think of all the potential people around you at all times
@chriswood98367 ай бұрын
Complacency kills
@Celestial10005 ай бұрын
The price of importing 3rd world Muslim immigrants.
@a.b32034 ай бұрын
i was waiting for so long to do someone do this content
@arifmuhammed24787 ай бұрын
Excellent work ❤❤
@thefirm46067 ай бұрын
you failed to mention HOW they got so powerful. 1) arms, intelligence and medical aid from Turkey, as well as the ability to use Turkey as a safe haven. 2) US decision not to attack IS if they were fighting against the Syrian army.
@captainblackbeard78406 ай бұрын
This channel is great. Thanks for all your work simon! Please do the battle of Agincourt!
@danielsantiagourtado34307 ай бұрын
Agreed good suggestion, plus its a good example of the decline of chivalry in Europe.
@InquisitorXarius7 ай бұрын
Was just thinking I’d like to hear some historical battles and conflicts. However I don’t think Simon likes non-modern stuff.
@--enyo--7 ай бұрын
Great vid keep up the work please
@Mason-dq7cf6 ай бұрын
Thank you for your work
@zclmt037 ай бұрын
I'm not even Muslim, & even I think it's disgusting how much these assholes misuse, twist, abuse, & defame Classical Islamic names & concepts. My sincerest condolences go out to all of the sane Muslims out there who have to deal with radicalised bullshit & the Western backlash against it every day.
@werebitch13137 ай бұрын
Except they are actually doing what the quran teaches. Islam is an extremely dangerous religion and i cant even understand why its tolerated around the world. The only reason it spread was because of murder, rape, and intimidation.
@DillaDonuts7 ай бұрын
They lived like your prophet and his followers. What tf do you mean “defame” Islam when they just followed what that pedo bastard told them to?
@GamerLoff7 ай бұрын
read it for yourself dont just repeat leftists talking points or just watch the islamic peace conference in norway there you can see clearly what mainstream islamic beliefes are
@redactedanticretin6 ай бұрын
@redactedanticretin uh no I just went straight to the "unchanged" source, the quran. It's just a massive more evil crappy rip off of the Bible
@DillaDonuts6 ай бұрын
@@redactedanticretindoesn’t it even directly say in the Quran to do acts like this?
@Butterzzzz6 ай бұрын
Hey Simon, have you thought of putting your other channels on a different platform you so don't get de-monetized for talking about history and reality. I signed up for the ones i could on spotify.
@boggledegop7 ай бұрын
Just wanted to say, this has been on the top of my feed since you posted. Just surprised with it having the violence and mature content warning
@UnyieldingMass7 ай бұрын
Thanks for this
@DrymouthCWW7 ай бұрын
Yt freaking out on this one 💀 never stop stopping
@jacksonGPT7 ай бұрын
Dear KZhead, why you censor this? This was an amazing upload!
@equarg7 ай бұрын
Because it's not “family-friendly “ enough.
@jenniferclark98427 ай бұрын
Thanks for the info Simon.
@praxis61727 ай бұрын
Hey KZhead restricted this. Love the videos simon!!!
@solidarity45677 ай бұрын
I love how their flag looks like something the Bevis and Butthead art department came up with!
@siphotheguy18707 ай бұрын
😂😂😂👍
@bokiNYC7 ай бұрын
Fun fact: the flag comes from the stamp of the first Islamic coin (6th-7th century). They're so dumb they made a coin their flag hence the logo is a circle
@GeN56YoS7 ай бұрын
It's supposed to be the actual handwriting of ole Mohamed so pretty much
@TomorrowWeLive7 ай бұрын
Well said.
@davidmuttillo28067 ай бұрын
I like this channel. Very much.😊
@petercozzaglio60707 ай бұрын
Could you do an ‘Into the Shadows’ video on the so-called ‘ISIS brides’? I genuinely don’t understand what’s happening there. Like, I can kind of see why guys might be into the whole rebel macho army stuff, but how on earth did they lure in women to such a conservative regime where there’re just wives. It doesn’t make sense to me, so I’d like to see an analysis of it.
@--enyo--7 ай бұрын
It's basically the same. Even for the guys, the "rebel macho army stuff" is just the surface, under that surface is insecurity and the searching for purpose and community, and that's what radical groups offer. When they're in, they get broken down and rebuilt, classic brainwashing. You see the same thing with people not wanting to leave destructive cults and abusive relationships, because they've been made to depend on what they know, and been taught that the rest of the world hates them.
@enemixius7 ай бұрын
In simplest terms, teenagers are just stupid.
@badluck56477 ай бұрын
Conservative women still exist. Women who want to be a wife, and take care of the house and children, cook and clean, and believe in gender roles They probably take a large amount of pride in doing their duties as a woman, and were attracted to a belief system that was similar to theirs.
@colehoward50747 ай бұрын
I have no evidence to back this up, but my guess is hybristophilia - sexual attraction to violent crime and those who perpetrate them
@benjaminmalisheski64947 ай бұрын
A kind of grooming. Initially by other women. It’s why teenagers are targeted. They live quite strict and secluded lives. They can’t be seen with the opposite gender, let alone have any relationship. Coupled with aspirational religious fervour… Ex-Muslim in the uk
@thefirm46067 ай бұрын
Now they are all throughout Europe just waiting for the nod
@karlhunt57747 ай бұрын
Finally. The question I had always
@TiagrajI7 ай бұрын
Could you do a video on the troubles?
@Shorty02027 ай бұрын
Never see this in the news. Thanks Simon for another deep dive quality video
@noname24907 ай бұрын
They get this information from… the news
@shosc167 ай бұрын
Really? What news do you watch? Between 2014 and 2018 you couldn’t find a news channel that DIDN’T show this all day every day.
@sendthis94807 ай бұрын
ISlS is literally the most sensationalized story in the 21st century. Notice this all happened in the backdrop of a Syrian revolution that everybody forgot about? Now nobody talks about Assad despite him having murdered far more than IS and despite IS being practically defeated in Syria. There's a reason for that.
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
Excellent thanks
@festerlambert53537 ай бұрын
Just feeding the algorithm monster. 👍
@mytruecrimelibrary7 ай бұрын
There's TWO ways to deal with "radical" Islam (as If there's any other variety): -- contain it -- irradicate them We failed at both.
@josephgriffin23887 ай бұрын
You can't Contain a Idea my Friend nor a Mindset.
@dstaff73737 ай бұрын
We live in a society
@-el_bandito7 ай бұрын
Not failed to contain, the opposite happened. Islam got spread via refugee/migrant crises, those fellas were content in their own different lives back then.
@1wun17 ай бұрын
you can if you kill everyone who has it @@dstaff7373
@007kingifrit7 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@pvkvicky20004 ай бұрын
Subscribed 👌🏼👍🏼
@jonathanpatrick27297 ай бұрын
Its awful hearing about all of this, but how they destroyed cultural sites, makes me think a video about ancient cultural buildings were destroyed in modern times could be a good subject.
@tyblorp5857 ай бұрын
Oh yeah ?!! So what did ur cute country USA do to iraq just a few yrs prior??? Was dropping chocolate 🍫 on iraquies people right ??!!
@user-jr8fg5zi3f7 ай бұрын
@@user-jr8fg5zi3f I dont live in america and they did horrible things there and all over the world
@tyblorp5857 ай бұрын
@@user-jr8fg5zi3f what else should they do let isis take over Or let saddam get away with his war crimes?
@catholicchristdisciple7 ай бұрын
@@user-jr8fg5zi3fwhy are you defending the is ?
@YarpYarp-qu5or7 ай бұрын
Do you not know what the Islamic invaders destroyed in ancient Persia, when they invaded and colonized that region? Ancient knowledge of the culture, language - all were burned and destroyed. Nothing new in these actions for Islam.
@kelrogers84807 ай бұрын
The city of Mosul was in much better shape when my unit left it. It shows how moronic it is to have public opinion polls dictate military strategy...yet again. 🙄
@jmanj39177 ай бұрын
It's so frustrating how much hard-won progress gets swept away with the stroke of a pen, all for people who don't really know or care what's happening. And now that public opinion is so easily influenced with tweaks to algorithms it's terrifying.
@tom.m7 ай бұрын
God bless you. And thank you for doing the work that needed done there.
@floridaboiwoody7 ай бұрын
What was the point of the war on terror when the US and Europe have admitted millions of terrorist sympathizers into their borders over the last 20 years. Useless wars fought for no reason.
@greatwolf53727 ай бұрын
What years and unit were you with in Mosul?
@USJTAC7 ай бұрын
And im betting it was in an even better shape before your unit went there 😅
@OK-yy6qz7 ай бұрын
I appreciate your explanation of the name. That always confuses me
@loumoon76607 ай бұрын
The search for Zakari absolutely fascinated me when i read Nada Bakos' book The Targeter. She provides a great insight into the Zeitgeist of the CIA in the early 2000s.
@J_Z9137 ай бұрын
I don't think I've ever got a content warning on one of your videos before
@K_End7 ай бұрын
woooaahh fact boy came out gunning in that intro. scared the hell outta me
@secretagent59547 ай бұрын
2:32 Jihad isn’t an ideology, salafism is an ideology. Jihad is a tenant of Islam. That encourages the spread of Islam like missionary work. The Quranic interpretation isn’t clear. But violence and conquest was used in the Past and historically by caliphates to spread Islam. Jihad literally means striving, or doing one's utmost in name and will of God(Allah). So feeding the poor or defending the weak. Can be considered Jihad in Islamic interpretation.
@polishherowitoldpilecki55217 ай бұрын
I'm curious kind of weird, just sitting here wondering if at any time that you are recording a video about a specific group. Has anyone ever sent you a private email telling you that you did something wrong or they're not happy with what you said about them and or their organization? If that makes sense
@chadjones23087 ай бұрын
This probably happens way more than people think. Can’t remember the names but if you look up “western Islamic state fighters” on KZhead there’s documentaries of Americans, Canadians, etc. who got to come back home somehow. You can see in their eyes and the way they speak, no regret about anything they just put on a filter because they know they lost, One of the guys there’s a documentary on (Canadian) is the guy behind IS propaganda videos he’s even in some of them. Wild stuff and crazy world we live in but anyway I hope I satisfied your curiosity a lil.
@decanusseverus87737 ай бұрын
How would they know
@timothy29357 ай бұрын
@@timothy2935 I mean you never know. One of the guys from the group could be messing around on KZhead and find it. Yes I know that might be a little far-fetched but anything's possible I'm just wondering if that has ever happened
@chadjones23087 ай бұрын
I think he did. The Russian mob or something like that which prompted him to take down the video.
@JulesEAbril-wl7es7 ай бұрын
@timothy2935 "how would they know"...... are you seriously asking that question while on the internet?
@captainspaulding59637 ай бұрын
Anyone else surprise that Simon released a video where he's more than likely to get death threats for. Fact boi has grown some giant cajones
@joelhendry87287 ай бұрын
What? Big who cares lol eff these cavemen
@timothy29357 ай бұрын
In 2015 it would be Iron Balls to do this Video when that french Professor got decapitated by a Crazy man in the Middle of the streets
@marcobelli68567 ай бұрын
For Showing mohammed images in school
@marcobelli68567 ай бұрын
@@marcobelli6856 happened in 2020 to, because a child didnt want to admit to bad grades, except that was a Chechen
@needsmetal7 ай бұрын
It's cojones, cajones means drawers
@RoundBaguette7 ай бұрын
Thanks
@rogojancatalin22696 ай бұрын
Great, now we’re all investigated. Thanks Simon.
@sbccmichaelkelly7 ай бұрын
How could Islamic State fighters capture Mosul without popular support? Many Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Syria supported the Islamic State. Also, there are Sunni Muslims in Iraq who are guilty of crimes against humanity against their Christian and Yazidi neighbors.
@kayilvengtas79037 ай бұрын
“Beaten down past the point where they will ever be able to control territory again.” What? Certainly they are in no position launch an offensive now, but back in 2010 I don’t think anyone would have said there was any chance of them taking control of half of Iraq. Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer, and should another catastrophic civil war break out in an area they hold a strong presence, there is every chance they will be able to take advantage of the chaos. They remain a potential future threat - and not only in the form isolated attacks.
@benjaminmalisheski64947 ай бұрын
Yeah this was actually a Straight up lie. IS still controls territories in Africa (primarily The Sahel and Somalia) and with the situation very likely to worsen in these territories there's definitely a possibility they'll gain more. Currently one of the biggest reasons they don't have more territory is competition with other similar groups like Boko Haram and Al shabab
@OK-yy6qz7 ай бұрын
Yeah this made zero sense to me at all. The rest of the video was great though. Great and deeeply freaking depressing.
@coconutsmarties79167 ай бұрын
@OK-yy6qz With Niger at the forefront of regional crisis and Mali and the Azawad rebel focused on killing each other, along with the leaving of UN ans french foces from the region, I would not be surprised if they started expanding again. The nations in the region are already stretched extremely thin, with armies of only a few thousand often dealing with multiple crises at once. ISIS brand of extreme violence and fast attacks may be too much for them to handle.
@Garmin211117 ай бұрын
@@Garmin21111 honestly Niger is in almost as bad a situation as Syria was in the rise of ISIS. On the brink of a civil war starting that will really be Proxy war between a dozen different countries, including Both Russia and USA. And shit will really hit the fan if it escalates into an all out war between ECOWAS and Alliance of Sahel. That's a dozen African countries that ISIS could get a foothold in
@OK-yy6qz7 ай бұрын
They can take territory, if they bring back car bombs and start controlling territory, but they are waiting for a change where the 2018 scenario won't happen again
@ahmadalhassan37477 ай бұрын
Just when I think I’ve found a new KZhead channel it’s just Simon 😂
@CrocBankRbbr7 ай бұрын
So many key concepts.
@Hello-wf5tv5 ай бұрын
KZhead probably won't even pay for the tea your team drank making this video but Thank You!
@georgeau25237 ай бұрын
I remember hearing about them in elementary school, we had a state channel where they sometimes broadcast clips of these events and this group in class. I learned since then, about the history of these types of groups and they still baffle me how they were freely able to form and organize and take territory at the same time.
@marcustmusic7 ай бұрын
You are so naive.. they are just created by the western power as pawn for their hidden agenda
@thehatedone3177 ай бұрын
Many in the region are tribal and they follow what the elders/chiefs say in terms of factions to join this is also the case for groups like the FSA that was originally a tribal coalition.
@orangutanenthusiast56314 ай бұрын
Look at the frontal lobe on that guy :P Impressive. Good job Simon, great backgrounder and analysis of the state of IS. Appreciate you man ❤
@saltspringdesign4 ай бұрын
Is this channel yours, Simon? I saw what happened with Bio and Geo, and was curious.
@channeljunirave7 ай бұрын
Hello, I'm a researcher who for years studied and covered the war in Syria (and Iraq to a lesser degree). Your video is a great summary and covers many of the core points very eloquently! One critique I have however is your labelling of the SDF as a Kurdish force. While from 2012-15 the YPG was almost entirely Kurdish and simply allied to some Arab groups, already by 2016 about half of the newly founded Syrian Democratic Forces were Arab, Turkmen, Armenian or Assyrian. By 2017-2018 over half of the SDF was Arab, and both the military and political leadership committees were minority Kurdish (Arabs being the most represented demographic followed by Kurds, then Assyrians). While it is difficult to cover all of this in a video of this scope, labelling them Kurdish falls into an issue that western media has had for a long time, which enforces the idea that in the Middle East, multi-ethnic multi-religious and multi-cultural societies and fighting forces aren't possible or haven't been successful. While the SDF is far from perfect, and the Autonomous Zone they control has issues, if nothing else they stand as a clear example that Christians and Muslims (Sunni and Shia) are able to effectively fight and rebuild the shattered society of Syria, and that gender equality can exist under Islam and Christianity even surrounded by fundamentalist movements. My suggestion would be to instead separate the YPG and the SDF similiarly to how you explained the different eras of Daesh. It is accurate to describe the YPG as Kurdish forces, but for example the prison escape you mentioned wasn't in Kurdish territory. It was in an Arab majority region, with a major Kurdish minority, as well as notable populations of Armenians and Assyrians. This is why the SDF is important to introduce to a western audience, to help convey just how ethnically and religiously diverse Syria is.
@plushie9467 ай бұрын
yes, but also no, depending on allegiance factors.
@richpoorworstbest48127 ай бұрын
Hope you're aware no Arab feels represented by the SDF, that these are conscripts and therefore they make up the majority of the rank and file, not the leadership. The reason why the group is considered "Kurdish-led" is because it's founded by PYD, an offshoot of the Turkish PKK. I'm sure you know this part already, but just so you don't get any ideas that they are actually a multiethnic group, I am clearing it up now. Protests have been ongoing in their regions particularly by Arab Sunni tribes but also from Assyrians both within AANNES and worldwide have sounded the alarm against the practices. Not to mention they're willing to cooperate with Assad against actual Syrian rebels.
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
@@Hayanomie I have personally spoken with many Arabs who willingly participate in the Autonomous Region and SDF. The SDF has more Arab commanders than Kurdish. About 60-65% of the soldiers are Arab, meaning if they were forced against their will to join they could easily use that majority to demand change or even outright separate. Moreover we'd be constantly be getting news about SDF fighters protesting, or infighting, and yet this hasn't happened. I'm deeply sorry that the so-called "Free Syrian Army" has been so co-opted by fundamentalists and fallen so deeply into infighting, but complaining and spreading misinformation about the SDF won't make them an effective fighting force again. The SDF has many real problems to point out, no need to spread long debunked propaganda. I truly hope Assad meets the terrible end he deserves and federalism and democracy can be achieved in Syria. Unfortunately due to Turkey and Russia's interventions and the US losing interest in Syria, that seems highly unlikely now.
@plushie9467 ай бұрын
@@plushie946 for the love of God please spare me your fake sympathy. Your so called "Syrian Democratic Forces" are neither Syrian nor democratic and hardly a force without the USA. You pkk fans are despicable.
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
@@plushie946 I'm deeply sorry you're so bored with Canada you feel the need to live vicariously through the Kurdish revolution, but it's not your conflict. Bow out and listen to more natives, not ones in the SDF.
@Hayanomie7 ай бұрын
As a Muslim who was born here in America it’s very hard and confusing to understand the politics in the Middle East, yes terrorists are horrible and I think should be killed if caught but I truly feel for the innocent people and especially children caught up in this that end up growing up to hate anyone that’s not Muslim since that isn’t true for me and many other Muslims sucks to see honestly but I’ve been doing research trying to dive deep into all the conflicts in the Middle East from Israel to Afghanistan to Libya
@Killshot156 ай бұрын
Yo man, respect. Every religion has its extremists, and they should all be condemned
@ijsbeermeneer99526 ай бұрын
@@ijsbeermeneer9952no Islam by nature is extremist
@celestialsatheist15356 ай бұрын
American Muslims seem to be very chill. Extremism is a much bigger problem in the European Muslim community. Look how many European Muslims joined ISIS.
@yoloswaggins71215 ай бұрын
The problem stems from western, especially American but also French and British imperialism in Muslim countries. They impose their political system there and oppressed, massacred millions of civilians. IS and such are just reactionary groups/states and as long as the West doesn’t apologize or recognize it’s crimes, it will continue to happen forever until the « West » eventually disappears entirely…
@commontouch17875 ай бұрын
@@ijsbeermeneer9952and the West has the most extremists people on earth, liberalism is today’s most harmful religion imo
@commontouch17875 ай бұрын
The title could easily be a video essay discussing a youtuber group that stopped making videos or that broke apart
@mr_alberto27687 ай бұрын
Would be great to see an Art of War episode on Alfred the Great’s Burhs. Edward Longshanks advances into Wales and Scotland would also be sweet
@ArchangelXCI7 ай бұрын
The pronunciations are killing me 😆
@eifelitorn7 ай бұрын
Aloha snack-bar
@gmr4life8847 ай бұрын
anytime a video is restricted, I know the video will be good.
@RoseNZieg7 ай бұрын
Talented presenter! Belter of an accent! 🎉
@russell42407 ай бұрын
Gotta love the footage of those airstrikes.😊👍
@johanneabelsen16447 ай бұрын
Thank you Simon for pushing this video through. The youtube algorithm doesn't want us to watch
@Jesus_P7 ай бұрын
Why didn't you mention the Battle of Kobani, a captivating battle that kept focused and routing for the Kurdish.
@jimmydahn57207 ай бұрын
Seeing Simon after a long time, Casual Criminal I think.
@nameless_wonderer7 ай бұрын
Only 143k views. The entire work should be watching this.
@charlessmith39407 ай бұрын
Was part of the D-ISIS campaign in Raqqa... Would be interested in seeing a video on the "Beatles". And you really need to do In to the Shadows on Al-Rasheed Stadium if you haven't.
@Twigmyer7 ай бұрын
The Beatles were those brits that joined isis correct?
@3-2bravo497 ай бұрын
My dad once told me that ISIS is so extreme that even the Taliban are afraid of them, I don't know if that's true though
@deadponic1177 ай бұрын
It is
@ahmadalhassan37477 ай бұрын
They’re not necessarily afraid of them, they just think ISIS are a bunch of crazy animals
@onejediboi7 ай бұрын
@@ahmadalhassan3747 no it's not.
@tawheedfidunya7 ай бұрын
@@tawheedfidunyait is
@chacha64387 ай бұрын
Isis is different level bro 😂, they boomed their self, Taliban don’t do that kind of stuff
@shahmizulfanshahrein39537 ай бұрын
Neat.
@PatchWorkExe7 ай бұрын
Never seen a warning over a video like that before
The Islamic state being dubbed isis made it really god damned motherfucking difficult to do research into the Egyptian goddess Isis, and even the birds called the Ibis for a while. Half the time google would be like did you mean to search for the terrorists.
my GFs horse at the time was called Isis. it kinda fit, that beast was also a terrorist
It also meant they had to rename the agency in Archer a bunch of times lol
There is an isis prison I'm the uk
... only western people and journalists still call them ISIS!! Obama only said ISIL.. the Arabs say Daish (or like that)...
Here's a little tip, you can search Isis Taylor instead. It's good for research purposes
I flew over Mosul a few months after the city was retaken. Even from the sky you could see it was completely ruined. Those poor people deserve peace after so many years of shear brutality.
Must be horrific and urban devastated
the battle to retake Mosul was horrifically brutal and caused much of the destruction you will have seen, especially in the desperate last stand in the old city where they even destroyed the Mosque that Baghdadi originally announced his caliphate in
Feel so sorry for the civilians, isis took hostages as human shields, kept men woman and children in rooms without food and water for weeks on end, separated men from their families only to slaughter them when liberation forces were closing in. Heartbreaking
@@Giantistand these monsters claim themselves to be men of God, hah!
@marshaltito7232, out of curiosity, where’d you take of and what city were you headed towards when you flew over?
The youtube algorithm didnt like this video at all lol. I'm glad that you still push content that people need, even when our censorship overlords dont like it (:
speak about not liking, I can't watch the video at all, becuase when I click on proceed after the warning, it redirects me away from the video
@@modal_derp yeah it did that to me a few times. Try watching it on a different device. It refused me on computer but on mobile it let me watch after the warning
I was actually surprised to have this video with a viewer discretion warning recommended on the frontpage. I've never had a video with a warning recommended yet.
Yep. Never had to click more than once to watch on YT. This is a first.
@@randomchannelgandalfSimon Whistler has had a few on his into the Shadows Channel
"Parasite"...perfect description...i would also call it a "Cancer"
CIA Assets would be more apt.
Like Islam
ISIS: "let's return our technology to c.600AD!" How? "AK47s (c.1949) and social media (c.2004)"
Just shows how incredibly stupid they are
Finally no cheesy stock footage! Happy you’ve brought back legitimate historical footage even if you need to put a warning on the video
How’s your free KZhead channel?
It was KZhead who added the warning, they hate any kind of modern transformative content related to "terrorism".
@@pvt.potato1943 Almost a guaranteed sign that the video is demonetized as well.
The KZhead algorithm almost certainly demonetized this video and added the warning the moment it was uploaded. Probably buried it deep so that it's hard to search for as well. I only found it through the embed at the end of the last video I watched on this channel.
I think something you should of mentioned is that ISIS managed to radicalise a 10 year old boy in England, and that boy ended up managing some operations, such as a planned attack on ANZAC day here in Australia, but not just any ANZAC day, the 100th anniversary Edit: I should just clear the air that the kid was not physically a part of the attack, he was communicating with a man who intended to perform the attack
yes this is a clear sign that the internet cannot be allowed to be what it currently is. nobody under 21 should be on social media
Edgy kids amirite?
@@007kingifrit I say 13+ but you have to pass a test to see how susceptible you are and it should only apply to Social Media and online communications (except for apps like messages and stuff so you can communicate with family)
@JBRAI22 lmao you guys are SO BRAINEASHED TO GIVE UP YOUR FREEDOMS FOR TEMPORARY SECURITY! HAHA YOU DESERVE NEITHER!
@@JBRAI22 well i don't know where you came up with 13+ but i have a littany of studies on how social media affects young people and 13 is not old enough
Simon and all the members of your team: thank you and I owe you a beer. I'm a history teacher and I'm currently teaching about this group. This will help them immensly! Cheers mates!
Love Simon, he's the best!🍻
Ily too
I hope you don't join this terrorist group.....😂😂
Make sure not to leave out the cruelty of Assad's government and their hand in these affairs. For reference check out Christopher Reuters work on the subject.
@@Hayanomie I don't sugarcoat history, so Assad's dealings are also a part of it.
I remember watching a documentary about the Kurds fighting Isis and they said they called them Daesh as a disrespect
I called them that as well. I don't like that the acronym of their name is identical to one of my favorite gods.
Daesh roughly translates to "bigot" in Arabic. It actually fits quite well.
@@RoseNZieg Okay Marquess of Queensberry
Rest in peace to those that passed away. I really hope we defeat IS for good.
It’s an idea at this point idk if we can we clearly can’t bomb our way out of this
The entire world needs to come together to thoroughly cleanse extremists all over the world, for IS to actually be eradicated.
Rest in peace to all the toyotas
It's more than an organization at this point it's an idea and ideas are not easily killed.
@@smokedbeefandcheese4144 We certainly tried bombing, continues to this day. Vast improvements from 2014.
Thank you Simon and Mr. Moloney for explaining all of this. The research alone was brutal.
As a Syrian, why they play down the Syrian government's role in the creation of IS is beyond me.
@@Hayanomieit was 🇮🇱 Government created lSlS
@@HK00088 hahahaha
@@HK00088 and yet you cannot provide one source or evidence for that you hypocrite deceiver. jahil
Don't forget to thank america for bombing the shit out of these terrorists
I worked 15 minutes from the San Bernardino, CA, USA terrorist attack. The craziest part of that attack is it basically occurred at a meeting of office worker municipal employees. Scientists, specialists, and clerical staff were gunned down at their company event. The couple who committed the attack lived in the safe, respectable, higher income city of Redlands. In the west we tend to think of terror attacks occurring in an exotic bazaar in a far off country... There is nowhere safe
Better get on that gun control so that the bad people can’t go acquire them by legitimate means! Wait……
I mean it feels like your country has mass shootings almost every other week...
Lol OK....you're more likely to die in a car crash than a terrorist attack I feel safe enough for me
In the USA, an American is far more likely to be gunned down by a dirtbag loser kid(teens and 20s) at a grocery store or somewhere than be killed by an organized terrorist attack. Hell Americans are more likely to die slipping in the shower and hitting their head than be killed by an organized terrorist attack(excluding years with a successful "spectacular" like 9/11).
Fear mongering much lmao
Leaving a comment so KZhead understands that there is nothing wrong with this video at all.
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Rise of the islamic state 6:55 - Chapter 2 - Syria, iraq & full scale war 17:20 - Chapter 3 - Battlefield defeat 25:15 - Chapter 4 - Global infection - Chapter 5 - - Chapter 6 -
TOYOTA!!!! 🎉
This is the guy? Ok. Hi, Achmed is it? Outstanding, I'm Staff Sergeant @#$%&* and this is our interpreter. Now, what happened today is, we were securing this AO when we found what we suspected to be a booby trap IED and decided the safest way to deal with it was to blow it in place with some C4. Umm... Yeah, sorry about your house. Hey Wex! Get a fire extinguisher and put out Achmed's coffee table, would ya? Anyway, the good news is that it wasn't a booby trap IED. We're thinking it might have been a record player. Soo... Sorry about your record player. Here's $6,000. Alrighty, we're good to go then. Welp, good luck Achmed, don't spend it all in one place. SAPPERS!!! Mount it up and move it out! We've gotta nation to build.
One of your best videos, Simon. Thank you for the great content!
This channel is rapidly becoming my favorite channel on this platform. Keep up the good work, Simon and crew!
So glad to see Simon still making fantastic, well researched, highly informative content post the fall of TopTenz etc. Thank you, Simon. You really are the very best of KZhead.
Well researched? The whole video? 30min? Quick answer, no. Extended answer, some even can spot severe ignorance
@shayann2228 I get your point. What im saying is that many of us know very little (which is a shame) and don't have the time to do any research at all, so even if this isn't perfect, it still offers a better understanding to many, by the end, than what they had going in. Ignorant, maybe, but its surely better to understand some of it, however small, than none of it at all, right?
@@jaysalisbury193 However, this isn’t good at this point. When people start to believe that they know something, they will tell it to the world without doubt or any concern and they will entirely live with that (very little) knowledge, which they then describe as 'truth'. So, either being ignorant in one big matter and not damaging anyone, or damaging others with false knowledge that they have. Right?
@shayann2228 I don't know then, I've already said I don't know enough about this. I certainly don't know enough to be arguing with someone who does. Have a good night
@@shayann2228 any specific examples of where this is a poorly researched video?
One of the best videos you have made in a long long time. Thank you, I know it must have been a difficult subject to research and produce.
Thank you Simon this is one of the best videos yet!
Always a delight when I click on a new channel, and your face pops up Simon. I know it means quality writing, editing, hosting, and a ton of interesting information (and or laughs)
"Daesh" roughly translates to "bigot" in Arabic. It actually fits quite well.
Nope it translates as "dawla islamiya in Iraq-Syria" which means Islamic state of Iraq and Syria I'm NOT a supporter, I'm just clarifying facts
@@DJZ3Mالدولة الإسلامية في العراق والشام (داعش). I remember the day they defeated the Iraqi army near Mosul and seized billions worth of military equipment. I thought that the Middle East was about to return to the stone age, fortunately the world literally stood up against Isis.
@@DJZ3M "Daesh" is an acronym, but if you pronounce the acronym, then it means bigot.
@@DJZ3M You are basically saying "MILF" can't be used mockingly for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. _Yes, it's real. Look it up._
@@badluck5647 yeah I get it here in Algeria we call them ba3a3ich which means insects Btw Algeria was not affected like the video stated the te-roes had only one failed operation other than that they didn't even try
Love the videos you guys make. Thank you Simon and co🙏
Well put together and well researched. Thanks.😊
Very informative and educational.
Brilliant and informative video, expertly told as per usual from Simon.
Comment for the algorithm! As always, a concise yet thorough analysis, a wonderful overview, and extremely entertaining! Thanks team Whistlerverse, you guys are the best!
This is the sort of in depth research, and clarity of explanation, that I love about your channels.
Great work, glad you put it up despite youtube being youtube
Great episode!
We had ‘former Canadians’ do the same thing. When they tried to come home, they were shocked when told to Ram it! 🇨🇦 Vet
Based Canada!
The UN is still bitching about human rights to Iraq for those terrorists in prison. They offered nothing when the fight was going on!
@@EireHammer was that a question?
@@robandcheryls typical a question has a question mark at the end.
As a Syrian-Canadian they don't belong in Syria either. They never did. They belong in Canadian prisons and it's the fault of intelligence services that they were able to make it into Syria in the first place.
The destruction of Palmyra breaks my heart. Centuries of history lost to zealotry.
That was based 😂
Could've stopped them in their tracks if someone just airdropped loads of sexy goats in.
@@tawheedfidunyaisis are the khawariji. Rassulollah saw warned us about these men. Don’t be an idiot. Read the quran and the sunnah and don’t fall for the khawariji’s tricks and fall down to jahannam with them.
@@tawheedfidunyaAllah was killed by Abu Tahir
@@tawheedfidunyathose “idols” are part of the middle east’s history moron. allaenat ealayk.
Great eye opening video!
Thank you for this
This is one of my favorite Warographics videos
Insanely good video. Thank you
Great stuff as always
Just discovered your Channel. Wow, what a marvellous Host you are. Totally intriguing. Nice Style of Editing. Very entertaining. Looking forward to more Content from you. 👌🏻
I, like many, used to have that mindset of "It'll never effect me". That was until I was ever so nearly in the middle of a terror attack myself. I walked over Westminster Bridge in March 2017, literally just minutes before an attack took place by a car running people over killing several and injuring many. To think that we were so close to potential death, with a real terrorist just a matter of a few hundred meteres away from us killing people, this will haunt me for life. We unfortunately never came to the aid of any of the injured, as we'd just stepped foot into the Westminster Underground station as the attack took place, not realising anything had happened until we stepped foot at our final destination as there's pretty much no Internet at all whilst underground.
Very sorry to hear this
Just think of all the potential people around you at all times
Complacency kills
The price of importing 3rd world Muslim immigrants.
i was waiting for so long to do someone do this content
Excellent work ❤❤
you failed to mention HOW they got so powerful. 1) arms, intelligence and medical aid from Turkey, as well as the ability to use Turkey as a safe haven. 2) US decision not to attack IS if they were fighting against the Syrian army.
This channel is great. Thanks for all your work simon! Please do the battle of Agincourt!
Agreed good suggestion, plus its a good example of the decline of chivalry in Europe.
Was just thinking I’d like to hear some historical battles and conflicts. However I don’t think Simon likes non-modern stuff.
Great vid keep up the work please
Thank you for your work
I'm not even Muslim, & even I think it's disgusting how much these assholes misuse, twist, abuse, & defame Classical Islamic names & concepts. My sincerest condolences go out to all of the sane Muslims out there who have to deal with radicalised bullshit & the Western backlash against it every day.
Except they are actually doing what the quran teaches. Islam is an extremely dangerous religion and i cant even understand why its tolerated around the world. The only reason it spread was because of murder, rape, and intimidation.
They lived like your prophet and his followers. What tf do you mean “defame” Islam when they just followed what that pedo bastard told them to?
read it for yourself dont just repeat leftists talking points or just watch the islamic peace conference in norway there you can see clearly what mainstream islamic beliefes are
@redactedanticretin uh no I just went straight to the "unchanged" source, the quran. It's just a massive more evil crappy rip off of the Bible
@@redactedanticretindoesn’t it even directly say in the Quran to do acts like this?
Hey Simon, have you thought of putting your other channels on a different platform you so don't get de-monetized for talking about history and reality. I signed up for the ones i could on spotify.
Just wanted to say, this has been on the top of my feed since you posted. Just surprised with it having the violence and mature content warning
Thanks for this
Yt freaking out on this one 💀 never stop stopping
Dear KZhead, why you censor this? This was an amazing upload!
Because it's not “family-friendly “ enough.
Thanks for the info Simon.
Hey KZhead restricted this. Love the videos simon!!!
I love how their flag looks like something the Bevis and Butthead art department came up with!
😂😂😂👍
Fun fact: the flag comes from the stamp of the first Islamic coin (6th-7th century). They're so dumb they made a coin their flag hence the logo is a circle
It's supposed to be the actual handwriting of ole Mohamed so pretty much
Well said.
I like this channel. Very much.😊
Could you do an ‘Into the Shadows’ video on the so-called ‘ISIS brides’? I genuinely don’t understand what’s happening there. Like, I can kind of see why guys might be into the whole rebel macho army stuff, but how on earth did they lure in women to such a conservative regime where there’re just wives. It doesn’t make sense to me, so I’d like to see an analysis of it.
It's basically the same. Even for the guys, the "rebel macho army stuff" is just the surface, under that surface is insecurity and the searching for purpose and community, and that's what radical groups offer. When they're in, they get broken down and rebuilt, classic brainwashing. You see the same thing with people not wanting to leave destructive cults and abusive relationships, because they've been made to depend on what they know, and been taught that the rest of the world hates them.
In simplest terms, teenagers are just stupid.
Conservative women still exist. Women who want to be a wife, and take care of the house and children, cook and clean, and believe in gender roles They probably take a large amount of pride in doing their duties as a woman, and were attracted to a belief system that was similar to theirs.
I have no evidence to back this up, but my guess is hybristophilia - sexual attraction to violent crime and those who perpetrate them
A kind of grooming. Initially by other women. It’s why teenagers are targeted. They live quite strict and secluded lives. They can’t be seen with the opposite gender, let alone have any relationship. Coupled with aspirational religious fervour… Ex-Muslim in the uk
Now they are all throughout Europe just waiting for the nod
Finally. The question I had always
Could you do a video on the troubles?
Never see this in the news. Thanks Simon for another deep dive quality video
They get this information from… the news
Really? What news do you watch? Between 2014 and 2018 you couldn’t find a news channel that DIDN’T show this all day every day.
ISlS is literally the most sensationalized story in the 21st century. Notice this all happened in the backdrop of a Syrian revolution that everybody forgot about? Now nobody talks about Assad despite him having murdered far more than IS and despite IS being practically defeated in Syria. There's a reason for that.
Excellent thanks
Just feeding the algorithm monster. 👍
There's TWO ways to deal with "radical" Islam (as If there's any other variety): -- contain it -- irradicate them We failed at both.
You can't Contain a Idea my Friend nor a Mindset.
We live in a society
Not failed to contain, the opposite happened. Islam got spread via refugee/migrant crises, those fellas were content in their own different lives back then.
you can if you kill everyone who has it @@dstaff7373
Thanks!
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Its awful hearing about all of this, but how they destroyed cultural sites, makes me think a video about ancient cultural buildings were destroyed in modern times could be a good subject.
Oh yeah ?!! So what did ur cute country USA do to iraq just a few yrs prior??? Was dropping chocolate 🍫 on iraquies people right ??!!
@@user-jr8fg5zi3f I dont live in america and they did horrible things there and all over the world
@@user-jr8fg5zi3f what else should they do let isis take over Or let saddam get away with his war crimes?
@@user-jr8fg5zi3fwhy are you defending the is ?
Do you not know what the Islamic invaders destroyed in ancient Persia, when they invaded and colonized that region? Ancient knowledge of the culture, language - all were burned and destroyed. Nothing new in these actions for Islam.
The city of Mosul was in much better shape when my unit left it. It shows how moronic it is to have public opinion polls dictate military strategy...yet again. 🙄
It's so frustrating how much hard-won progress gets swept away with the stroke of a pen, all for people who don't really know or care what's happening. And now that public opinion is so easily influenced with tweaks to algorithms it's terrifying.
God bless you. And thank you for doing the work that needed done there.
What was the point of the war on terror when the US and Europe have admitted millions of terrorist sympathizers into their borders over the last 20 years. Useless wars fought for no reason.
What years and unit were you with in Mosul?
And im betting it was in an even better shape before your unit went there 😅
I appreciate your explanation of the name. That always confuses me
The search for Zakari absolutely fascinated me when i read Nada Bakos' book The Targeter. She provides a great insight into the Zeitgeist of the CIA in the early 2000s.
I don't think I've ever got a content warning on one of your videos before
woooaahh fact boy came out gunning in that intro. scared the hell outta me
2:32 Jihad isn’t an ideology, salafism is an ideology. Jihad is a tenant of Islam. That encourages the spread of Islam like missionary work. The Quranic interpretation isn’t clear. But violence and conquest was used in the Past and historically by caliphates to spread Islam. Jihad literally means striving, or doing one's utmost in name and will of God(Allah). So feeding the poor or defending the weak. Can be considered Jihad in Islamic interpretation.
I'm curious kind of weird, just sitting here wondering if at any time that you are recording a video about a specific group. Has anyone ever sent you a private email telling you that you did something wrong or they're not happy with what you said about them and or their organization? If that makes sense
This probably happens way more than people think. Can’t remember the names but if you look up “western Islamic state fighters” on KZhead there’s documentaries of Americans, Canadians, etc. who got to come back home somehow. You can see in their eyes and the way they speak, no regret about anything they just put on a filter because they know they lost, One of the guys there’s a documentary on (Canadian) is the guy behind IS propaganda videos he’s even in some of them. Wild stuff and crazy world we live in but anyway I hope I satisfied your curiosity a lil.
How would they know
@@timothy2935 I mean you never know. One of the guys from the group could be messing around on KZhead and find it. Yes I know that might be a little far-fetched but anything's possible I'm just wondering if that has ever happened
I think he did. The Russian mob or something like that which prompted him to take down the video.
@timothy2935 "how would they know"...... are you seriously asking that question while on the internet?
Anyone else surprise that Simon released a video where he's more than likely to get death threats for. Fact boi has grown some giant cajones
What? Big who cares lol eff these cavemen
In 2015 it would be Iron Balls to do this Video when that french Professor got decapitated by a Crazy man in the Middle of the streets
For Showing mohammed images in school
@@marcobelli6856 happened in 2020 to, because a child didnt want to admit to bad grades, except that was a Chechen
It's cojones, cajones means drawers
Thanks
Great, now we’re all investigated. Thanks Simon.
How could Islamic State fighters capture Mosul without popular support? Many Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Syria supported the Islamic State. Also, there are Sunni Muslims in Iraq who are guilty of crimes against humanity against their Christian and Yazidi neighbors.
“Beaten down past the point where they will ever be able to control territory again.” What? Certainly they are in no position launch an offensive now, but back in 2010 I don’t think anyone would have said there was any chance of them taking control of half of Iraq. Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer, and should another catastrophic civil war break out in an area they hold a strong presence, there is every chance they will be able to take advantage of the chaos. They remain a potential future threat - and not only in the form isolated attacks.
Yeah this was actually a Straight up lie. IS still controls territories in Africa (primarily The Sahel and Somalia) and with the situation very likely to worsen in these territories there's definitely a possibility they'll gain more. Currently one of the biggest reasons they don't have more territory is competition with other similar groups like Boko Haram and Al shabab
Yeah this made zero sense to me at all. The rest of the video was great though. Great and deeeply freaking depressing.
@OK-yy6qz With Niger at the forefront of regional crisis and Mali and the Azawad rebel focused on killing each other, along with the leaving of UN ans french foces from the region, I would not be surprised if they started expanding again. The nations in the region are already stretched extremely thin, with armies of only a few thousand often dealing with multiple crises at once. ISIS brand of extreme violence and fast attacks may be too much for them to handle.
@@Garmin21111 honestly Niger is in almost as bad a situation as Syria was in the rise of ISIS. On the brink of a civil war starting that will really be Proxy war between a dozen different countries, including Both Russia and USA. And shit will really hit the fan if it escalates into an all out war between ECOWAS and Alliance of Sahel. That's a dozen African countries that ISIS could get a foothold in
They can take territory, if they bring back car bombs and start controlling territory, but they are waiting for a change where the 2018 scenario won't happen again
Just when I think I’ve found a new KZhead channel it’s just Simon 😂
So many key concepts.
KZhead probably won't even pay for the tea your team drank making this video but Thank You!
I remember hearing about them in elementary school, we had a state channel where they sometimes broadcast clips of these events and this group in class. I learned since then, about the history of these types of groups and they still baffle me how they were freely able to form and organize and take territory at the same time.
You are so naive.. they are just created by the western power as pawn for their hidden agenda
Many in the region are tribal and they follow what the elders/chiefs say in terms of factions to join this is also the case for groups like the FSA that was originally a tribal coalition.
Look at the frontal lobe on that guy :P Impressive. Good job Simon, great backgrounder and analysis of the state of IS. Appreciate you man ❤
Is this channel yours, Simon? I saw what happened with Bio and Geo, and was curious.
Hello, I'm a researcher who for years studied and covered the war in Syria (and Iraq to a lesser degree). Your video is a great summary and covers many of the core points very eloquently! One critique I have however is your labelling of the SDF as a Kurdish force. While from 2012-15 the YPG was almost entirely Kurdish and simply allied to some Arab groups, already by 2016 about half of the newly founded Syrian Democratic Forces were Arab, Turkmen, Armenian or Assyrian. By 2017-2018 over half of the SDF was Arab, and both the military and political leadership committees were minority Kurdish (Arabs being the most represented demographic followed by Kurds, then Assyrians). While it is difficult to cover all of this in a video of this scope, labelling them Kurdish falls into an issue that western media has had for a long time, which enforces the idea that in the Middle East, multi-ethnic multi-religious and multi-cultural societies and fighting forces aren't possible or haven't been successful. While the SDF is far from perfect, and the Autonomous Zone they control has issues, if nothing else they stand as a clear example that Christians and Muslims (Sunni and Shia) are able to effectively fight and rebuild the shattered society of Syria, and that gender equality can exist under Islam and Christianity even surrounded by fundamentalist movements. My suggestion would be to instead separate the YPG and the SDF similiarly to how you explained the different eras of Daesh. It is accurate to describe the YPG as Kurdish forces, but for example the prison escape you mentioned wasn't in Kurdish territory. It was in an Arab majority region, with a major Kurdish minority, as well as notable populations of Armenians and Assyrians. This is why the SDF is important to introduce to a western audience, to help convey just how ethnically and religiously diverse Syria is.
yes, but also no, depending on allegiance factors.
Hope you're aware no Arab feels represented by the SDF, that these are conscripts and therefore they make up the majority of the rank and file, not the leadership. The reason why the group is considered "Kurdish-led" is because it's founded by PYD, an offshoot of the Turkish PKK. I'm sure you know this part already, but just so you don't get any ideas that they are actually a multiethnic group, I am clearing it up now. Protests have been ongoing in their regions particularly by Arab Sunni tribes but also from Assyrians both within AANNES and worldwide have sounded the alarm against the practices. Not to mention they're willing to cooperate with Assad against actual Syrian rebels.
@@Hayanomie I have personally spoken with many Arabs who willingly participate in the Autonomous Region and SDF. The SDF has more Arab commanders than Kurdish. About 60-65% of the soldiers are Arab, meaning if they were forced against their will to join they could easily use that majority to demand change or even outright separate. Moreover we'd be constantly be getting news about SDF fighters protesting, or infighting, and yet this hasn't happened. I'm deeply sorry that the so-called "Free Syrian Army" has been so co-opted by fundamentalists and fallen so deeply into infighting, but complaining and spreading misinformation about the SDF won't make them an effective fighting force again. The SDF has many real problems to point out, no need to spread long debunked propaganda. I truly hope Assad meets the terrible end he deserves and federalism and democracy can be achieved in Syria. Unfortunately due to Turkey and Russia's interventions and the US losing interest in Syria, that seems highly unlikely now.
@@plushie946 for the love of God please spare me your fake sympathy. Your so called "Syrian Democratic Forces" are neither Syrian nor democratic and hardly a force without the USA. You pkk fans are despicable.
@@plushie946 I'm deeply sorry you're so bored with Canada you feel the need to live vicariously through the Kurdish revolution, but it's not your conflict. Bow out and listen to more natives, not ones in the SDF.
As a Muslim who was born here in America it’s very hard and confusing to understand the politics in the Middle East, yes terrorists are horrible and I think should be killed if caught but I truly feel for the innocent people and especially children caught up in this that end up growing up to hate anyone that’s not Muslim since that isn’t true for me and many other Muslims sucks to see honestly but I’ve been doing research trying to dive deep into all the conflicts in the Middle East from Israel to Afghanistan to Libya
Yo man, respect. Every religion has its extremists, and they should all be condemned
@@ijsbeermeneer9952no Islam by nature is extremist
American Muslims seem to be very chill. Extremism is a much bigger problem in the European Muslim community. Look how many European Muslims joined ISIS.
The problem stems from western, especially American but also French and British imperialism in Muslim countries. They impose their political system there and oppressed, massacred millions of civilians. IS and such are just reactionary groups/states and as long as the West doesn’t apologize or recognize it’s crimes, it will continue to happen forever until the « West » eventually disappears entirely…
@@ijsbeermeneer9952and the West has the most extremists people on earth, liberalism is today’s most harmful religion imo
The title could easily be a video essay discussing a youtuber group that stopped making videos or that broke apart
Would be great to see an Art of War episode on Alfred the Great’s Burhs. Edward Longshanks advances into Wales and Scotland would also be sweet
The pronunciations are killing me 😆
Aloha snack-bar
anytime a video is restricted, I know the video will be good.
Talented presenter! Belter of an accent! 🎉
Gotta love the footage of those airstrikes.😊👍
Thank you Simon for pushing this video through. The youtube algorithm doesn't want us to watch
Why didn't you mention the Battle of Kobani, a captivating battle that kept focused and routing for the Kurdish.
Seeing Simon after a long time, Casual Criminal I think.
Only 143k views. The entire work should be watching this.
Was part of the D-ISIS campaign in Raqqa... Would be interested in seeing a video on the "Beatles". And you really need to do In to the Shadows on Al-Rasheed Stadium if you haven't.
The Beatles were those brits that joined isis correct?
My dad once told me that ISIS is so extreme that even the Taliban are afraid of them, I don't know if that's true though
It is
They’re not necessarily afraid of them, they just think ISIS are a bunch of crazy animals
@@ahmadalhassan3747 no it's not.
@@tawheedfidunyait is
Isis is different level bro 😂, they boomed their self, Taliban don’t do that kind of stuff
Neat.
Never seen a warning over a video like that before