What do you do when the entire fortress of your world is under attack? ISIS is becoming everyones worse fear meaning hesitation to do travel and take part in Black Friday. What makes the whole situation scarier is they are already within U.S. borders and threatening NYC. Not only that they are very tech savvy and are fearless when it comes to citizen attacks such as the event that occurred in Paris recently. How did it come to be? What do we do from here? Not only for the world however also for our own country?

Three years ago ISIS wasn't making news headlines everyday. We weren't thinking twice about whether or not Black Friday or going to the city might turn into a Paris replica. However over the course of said years ISIS grew to be owners of most of Syria and Iraq.

According to Quora , "By 2011, when the U.S. troop withdrawal was complete, AQI was being run by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and had morphed from a largely foreign to a largely Iraqi operation. Baghdadi himself, as his name suggests, is local. The absence of foreigners made it easier for the Sons of Iraq and their kin to ignore previous resentments against the group. There was also another rebranding: AQI was now better known as the Islamic State of Iraq, or ISI.
Baghdadi took Zarqawi’s tactics and supercharged them. The Shiites were still his main targets, but now he sent suicide bombers to attack police and military offices, checkpoints, and recruiting stations. (Civilian targets remained fair game.) ISI’s ranks were swelled by former Sons of Iraq, many of whom had previously been commanders and soldiers in Saddam’s military. This gave Baghdadi’s fighters the air of an army, rather than a rag-tag militant outfit.
With thousands of armed men now at his disposal, Baghdadi opened a second front against the Shiites—in Syria, where there was a largely secular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad"

"What mattered to Baghdadi and his propagandists was that Assad and many of his senior military commanders were Alawites, members of a Shiite sub-sect. Battle-hardened from Iraq, ISI was a much more potent fighting force than most of the secular groups, and fought Assad’s forces to a standstill in many areas. Soon, Baghdadi renamed his group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), reflecting his greater ambitions"

On November 13, 2015 Paris was attacked by organized terrorist attacks linked to ISIS. Between shootings and suicide bombs ISIS is a world threat. With the bomber information released stating he was a refugee many started questioning our own countries safety. Whether letting refugees in or not. Giving them homes or not. We do have to remember war vets should come first. If we magically have homes for refugees it wouldn't be fair to have vets come second. Another question is if ISIS which many media outlets believe is already within our borders what do we do? With holidays coming up and being New Yorkers we have much to be on the look out for. How do you stop a group of terrorists who are cyber smart and can impact us not just in person? They are capable of bringing down many more cities than just Paris.