IS is a criminal organization that supports terrorism and extreme Salafism. They are hard to understand if you don't keep the 'criminal organization' part in mind. They're making a million buck a day off oil resources they've seized. They commit atrocities to attract global attentiion which is cheap advertising for their recruiters. They need to present themselves as the toughest, most ruthless gang in the region to get the thousands of young men in their teens and early twenties coming in to replace the ones lost to fighting and airstrikes. ISIS pays foriegn fighters about a $1,000 a month, that's better money than a lot of those kids have ever seen. Organizations perpetuate themselves, and and the IS package is a brand and a business as well as a ruthless terrorist organization.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
