>>OK, so ISIS is/was funded by Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Northwestern Iraq, and Northeastern Syria.
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>>a. how is that a "foreign threat?"
>>b. why are they not a group of people rallying around a religious concept?
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>Bill, please go back and read what I said.
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>You painted it as an "either/or"...your exact words..."ISIS is a group of people rallying around a religious concept, not a foreign power".
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>Clearly the first part of what you said is correct. My point was that ISIS receives funding through complex foreign infrastructures. They are not exclusively backed by one foreign nation-state, but by several key sources.

I assume they get a lot of their money from the selling oil on the blackmarket from areas they've taken control of too.