ISIS Archives - News and Media /news/tag/isis/ Augsburg University Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:00:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Andy Aoki answers WCCO ‘Good Question’ on ISIS /news/2014/08/14/wcco-good-question-answered-andy-aoki/ Thu, 14 Aug 2014 17:17:20 +0000 http://www.augsburg.edu/news/?p=4316 Professor Andy Aoki spoke with WCCO-TV about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS, for the news station’s Good Question. Aoki, who teaches in the College’s political science department, explained to television viewers that ISIS is an extreme militant group that has been disavowed by Al Qaeda. He commented that this relatively young organization ...

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]]> WCCOProfessor Andy Aoki spoke with WCCO-TV about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS, for the news station’s Good Question. Aoki, who teaches in the College’s political science department, explained to television viewers that ISIS is an extreme militant group that has been disavowed by Al Qaeda. He commented that this relatively young organization is rare, in part, because unlike most of history’s other horrific killers, this group isn’t trying to hide any of its actions. “It’s rare to find a group like this that’s not even embarrassed. Even the Nazis were denying some of the things they did. If you look at some of the most horrific killers the last 30 or 40 years, they’ve got to be in the top 5 so far,” he told viewers. Watch “.”

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