Another argument supporting the claim that preventing cultural heritage sites to fall into the hands of IS will help in the fight against them is that IS will lose a way to express their power and ideology on a global scale and recruit new members. Besides the fact that they do this because The emergence of social media brought a new way of terrorism into being. In “The Islamic State’s symbolic war: Da’esh’s socially mediated terrorism as a threat to cultural heritage”, this new way of terrorism is described as “socially mediated terrorism” (Smith et al. 2016, 164). The emergence of social media resulted in an opportunity for IS to use the destruction of cultural heritage as a way to ‘manipulate and persuade audiences’ (Smith et al. 2016, 181) and recruit new members on a global level (Smith et al. 2016, 174). Also, the emergence of social media caused that the ‘destruction of cultural heritage serves the strategic purpose of cloaking the Islamic State with an aura of invincibility through highlighting the impotence of its opponents.’ (Smith et al. 2016, 181). Furthermore, Paolo Foradori and Paolo Rosa, Professor and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Trento ((Foradori and Rosa 2017, 160), state that IS uses the distribution of images of them destructing cultural heritage sites as a new way of portraying their strength and “its radical, merciless, and unconditional ideology” which will recruit supporters from all over the world “by advertising its irresistible power” (Foradori and Rosa 2017, 150). So, due to the emergence of social media IS saw a chance to be able to propagate their ideas globally. The destruction of cultural heritage served to be a good tool for this. If Islamic State is prevented from access to cultural heritage to damage it, it loses a way to globally express their power and ideology and a way to recruit new members. This, in turn, might affect the powerful image the rest of world has of them and an ability to recruit new members, they will thus lose an ability to expand. On the other hand, Foradori and Rosa warn that IS could move on to other activities through which they can show their power on a global scale, shifting from cultural destruction to human killings. This will be much more undesired than the destruction of global heritage and will neither shrink the activities of IS. The human attacks might even become crueler than before, as they might go back to human killings with even more brutality or they might focus on specific groups like women and children (Foradori and Rosa 2017, 157). However, the message IS wants to spread with these shifted violent activities will not be received as globally as the messages spread from the destruction of cultural heritage. This is in contrast to Foradori and Rosa who stated that human killings will reach the same goal as the destruction of cultural heritage in terms of distributing the IS ideology on a global scale (Foradori and Rosa 2017, 157). This is because in contrast to videos of the destruction of cultural heritages, videos of murders can be very unpleasant to watch for most people and the videos that are being circulated by IS will only fulfill their goal if they are actually being watched by people around the world (Smith et al. 2016, 176). So, keeping cultural heritage out of the hands of IS might indeed cause IS to lose their powerful face on a global level global, and an ability to recruit new members, they will thus lose an ability to expand. Finally, as many cultural heritage sites have a good strategic military position, they can very valuable possessions for both IS and the Global Coalition fighting IS. The side who possesses the cultural her>