{"id":9822,"date":"2015-12-03T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9822"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T21:48:59","slug":"isis-corner-a-historical-moneymaker-that-is-impervious-to-air-raids-and-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/03\/isis-corner-a-historical-moneymaker-that-is-impervious-to-air-raids-and-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Corner: A Historical Moneymaker that is Impervious to Air Raids and Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The more you learn about these pieces of garbage, the more you understand they are nothing but criminals and thugs&#8230;but, I guess in reality you cannot blame them, their so called &#8220;prophet&#8221; and &#8220;leader&#8221; was also a thief and bandit himself who robbed innocent people and called it (you guessed it) &#8220;doing God&#8217;s Will.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Did you ever consider the religion of Islam seriously? I mean think about it: In Christianity, it states in the Bible that Moses had to go &#8220;Up On the mountain&#8221; to talk to God, but in Islam, Mohammad had to go into a deep dark bat cave to talk to quote &#8220;god&#8221;?? Hmmmm..something does not add up there..A sneaking suspicion tells me Moses and &#8220;Mohammad&#8221; were NOT talking to the same God. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9823\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/isis2.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"isis2\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The US has stepped up attacks on oil trucks in Syria in an effort to hit a major source of funding for ISIS. But that&#8217;s likely not nearly enough to significantly affect the terrorist group&#8217;s bottom line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/30\/world\/middleeast\/predatory-islamic-state-wrings-money-from-those-it-rules.html?_r=0\">A recent report<\/a> in The New York Times shows that ISIS \u2014 aka ISIL, Islamic State, and Daesh \u2014 pulls in hundreds of millions of dollars from &#8220;taxing&#8221; and extorting those who live in the territory that the group controls in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS is thought to make as much as $900 million from residents and businessmen in its territory, American and European officials told The Times. And this revenue isn&#8217;t easy to diminish since it has &#8220;so far proved largely impervious to sanctions and air raids,&#8221; according to The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Experts have long said that taxation and extortion is ISIS&#8217; main revenue source, but The Times showed the extent to which ISIS is entrenched in the cities and towns it has seized.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/isis-taxation-extortion-system-2015-12?nr_email_referer=1&amp;utm_content=BISelect&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_campaign=BI%20Select%20%28Wednesday%20Friday%29%202015-12-02&amp;utm_term=Business%20Insider%20Select\"> Business Insider<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more you learn about these pieces of garbage, the more you understand they are nothing but criminals and thugs&#8230;but, I guess in reality you cannot blame them, their so called &#8220;prophet&#8221; and &#8220;leader&#8221; was also a thief and bandit himself who robbed innocent people and called it (you guessed it) &#8220;doing God&#8217;s Will.&#8221;\u00a0 Did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1583,1704,13,2574,74,2413,2726,2933,2990,272,1898],"tags":[3185,3186,3187,1066,1083,3188,1645,2403],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}