The report “Why ISIS’ Deadly Attacks Could Backfire” by ABC News Contributor Lee Ferran recounts the recent beheading of Egyptian Copts in Lybia by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The text, accordingly, is a clear example of conflict. The aspect of conflict, however, in this article functions in this example on many levels simultaneously.
Firstly, the thrust of the article is to determine how ISIS’s brutal attacks against a number of different ethnic and religious groups will only increase the number of groups opposed to them. Accordingly, from this perspective, ISIS initiates a conflict which will, in the end, overwhelm them, in so far as they are making the strategic error of multiplying their enemies. At the same time, there is another conflict which is being presented in the text, and this is by the reporter who is attempting to bring the reader him or herself into conflict with ISIS: the article intends to instill fear of ISIS into the reader, with its ominous conclusion of a citation from an ISIS member, that the group intends to take Rome. This final conclusion intends to heighten the conflict with ISIS, for example, instead of concluding the article with a point consistent with the article’s title, such as how ISIS has made a gross strategic error in angering a diverse number of contingents, the article emphasizes how much a dangerous threat ISIS remains. Accordingly, the use of these two examples demonstrates how conflict is crucial to understanding the entire text.
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In my experience, I have also seen such type of conflicts, of course, on a much lesser scale. For example, on the schoolyard growing up, I many times witnessed conflicts based on ethnicity, with one group taunting another. This corresponds with the sectarian hatred that fuels many of ISIS’s actions, as the article talks about. The article also talks about the fear associated with conflict, for example, the fear of further terrorist attacks, even in continental Europe. This is a fear I have had communicated to me by some close acquaintances, who are concerned that the ubiquity of terrorism means that a terrorist attack may even occur in our own neighborhood.
