TOW #11-ISIS: San Bernardino shooters were "supporters"

While acts of terrorism equate to acts of evil to most, few believe that terrorism is justifiable. The planned attacks in Paris sparked others from around the world who share the same beliefs as those who are involved in ISIS to commit terrible offenses. Since the Paris attacks, there have been multiple threats and actions that have resulted in more deaths and injuries. Recently in San Bernardino, there was a shooting relates to terrorism.  CNN’s Faith Karimi, along with Jason Hanna and Yousuf Basil, wrote about the information that combines to validate that the two shooters, Tashfeen Malik and Syed Rizwan Farook, were tied to radicalization. The authors employed juxtaposition and an appeal to ethos in order to confirm the attacks were a form of terrorism.

This terrible act of terrorism is the beginning of a new type of attacks. The authors make sure to let the readers know that this might not have necessarily been ISIS’ idea. Although ISIS is saying that they were ‘supporters’ of the terrorist group, the authors compare the other ways that ISIS has claimed responsibility to the way they handled this one. In other attacks, ISIS says that the people involved were part of the group and that ISIS was responsible, but in this case the author states that ISIS “did not say the couple were members or that ISIS was responsible.” By comparing these two separate easy that ISIS has dealt with attacks, the author can easily separate the two and warn the country that a new wave of attacks may be upon us. Ever since the Paris attacks, many more people who have radical beliefs are beginning to plan their own attacks, which is a whole new type of threats that our country will have to face.