ISIL is a terrorist group located in the Middle East. ISIL stands for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant so why are more and more Western people joining them?  Why are young kids in the Middle East joining? Why are many European and American teens? How does a small group turn into 30,000+ by beheading people? I will be looking into all of the factors and highlighting some main events.

                First let’s start with the kids, why are the joining, what makes ISIL so appealing? Ice-cream, ice-cream is used as a bait to lure impressionable kids to join them. Kids are very impressionable because their mind is still being molded and then ISIL makes changes, forcing the kids to thing the way they want it, much like a potter and his/her clay. By being lured and bribed with ice-cream and then having all of these ideas forced into their mind they become terror. They become ISIL.

                Now let’s talk about everyone’s favorite website Facebook. The media gets a bad rap for being bad and spreading propaganda, well there is some truth behind that. Facebook has over half a million people on their site on a daily basis, so spreading some propaganda over that just makes sense. Many companies make lots of money over it so many terrorist groups could get a lot of support from it.

                Many people from other countries are running to join the fight but they are fighting for ISIL. The Austrian girls who left are pregnant according to Wn.com. These girls have been recruiting people to ISIL by using social media. It has been a very effective campaign and has recruited many to ISIL. If just a few people and maybe a cool kid people will fallow and then then there is a snow ball effect and many people have joined ISIL.

                So it seems to be just people being tricked, brainwashed, and tiring to fit in. Ice-cream socials used to lure kids. Social networking was used as propaganda. Two girls from Austria that are now the face of ISIL are recruiting people by the hundreds. ISIL will continue to grow unless we do something NOW.