The Differences between ISIS and the Islamic Empire of the 1200s

"ISIS kidnaps more than 140 Kurdish schoolboys in Syria, forcing them to take lessons in radical Islamic theology". This was from an article, going over news and damage that the terrorist group named "ISIS" has done. ISIS consists of religious men who believe that they should stay true to hateful crimes such as killing, and doing damage to the public. Because of the Islamic Empire in the 1200's, these men adapted to the way of taking over land and trading goods in continents such as Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and overpowering others.

Does ISIS truly represent what an Islamic Empire used to be? Three reasons why ISIS does not represent what an Islamic Empire used to be are the way they act towards their own citizens, such as enslavement of women and children, the violence ambition, and the type of grueling living conditions to just get educated.

Women being very limited is one example of how ISIS doesn't represent what the Islamic empire used to be. Women used to be able to teach men in the empire. Another example would be women being able to lead in the military and have more rights. Women then used to be as equal as men, but are now seen as the underdogs or not as powerful and equal now. Women didn't have dress codes or harsh rules outside, such as covering their faces and having a man by their side, or not being able to drive until now.

(Documents 16,17)

The next example would be the education, where in the Islamic empire would have schools and very intelligent teachers, and people learning all kinds of skills such as discipline, math, and all the sciences. In the 1200's, the most intelligent were categorized as scholars, and those scholars were everywhere. In Islam now, mostly all subjects were gotten rid and not taught, as if rubbish, because religion came first and many people are highly uneducated. The teachings of Islamic culture under ISIS's control were taken to levels not even correlated with what goes/the rules that are in their religion such as violence and including the use of weapons.

(Documents 3,8)

A third example of ISIS not representing what the Islamic empire used to be is the slavery, and how it has turned into traumatic experiences for many Muslims. Muslims were traded and taken from the same continents and worked, and slavery was everywhere when it shouldn't have been. Muslims in Islam also could buy slaves, and as long as they had money, they did whatever they wanted to what they owned such as overworking and abuse. Even though slavery is illegal now, ISIS still has women and children held hostage and left without any freedom.

(Documents 14,15)

In conclusion, ISIS is different from what it used to be in the 1200s because of the way it it damaged the public by closing down schools and abandoning rightful education. Women are not respected and Islamic men are towering over them. ISIS still has the slave trade in tact and Muslims are living in harsh conditions. ISIS has created and controlled lands with people who are affected daily with poverty and abuse. ISIS has their people fleeing for refuge as their rules and violence increasingly worsen.

Learning about the differences between ISIS and the Islamic Empire of the 1200s still matters today because the public are not living in stable conditions, and the level of violence has topped the charts since then. Islamic men are trying to conquer land and have power over those who do no harm such as the public. Unnecessary violence has been created and has been a noticeable difference since the 1200s.

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