# Was climate change a factor in the Syrian Civil War and the rise of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh?

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**Created:** [July 24, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-climate-change-a-factor-in-the-syrian-civil-war-and-the-rise-of-isis-isil-daesh/726091 "2015-07-24T19:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-climate-change-a-factor-in-the-syrian-civil-war-and-the-rise-of-isis-isil-daesh/726091/21 "2015-07-27T23:12:26Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Your post – and several others in this thread so far – appeared to reflect the “Muslims are intrinsically given to violent fundamentalism” meme.

We are only talking about a particular subset of Muslims who commit certain acts or defend those who do. Climate change is not a significant factor in the rise of ISIL because climate change cannot turn a man into somebody who would support what ISIL does. ISIL is like a man who beats his wife - even if he only started beating his wife after he lost his job, his boss didn’t turn him into a wife-beater by firing him; it just put him in a position where he would reveal his true colours.

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**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-climate-change-a-factor-in-the-syrian-civil-war-and-the-rise-of-isis-isil-daesh/726091/22 "2015-07-27T23:30:06Z")

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radical Islamic jihadism was THE factor in the rise of ISIS (it is not ISIL, or Daesh, or other PC name).

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-climate-change-a-factor-in-the-syrian-civil-war-and-the-rise-of-isis-isil-daesh/726091/23 "2015-07-29T14:44:41Z")

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I would like to know more about the (possible) role of the CIA in the rise of ISIS. Something tells me this is a replay of what we did in Afghanistan (backing the Taliban while the Russians occupied the country)-with the same disastrous results.

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