I think the extent to which this sect is completely and utterly divorced from the rest of humanity was well captured in a piece by The Atlantic - http://www.the

I think the extent to which this sect is completely and utterly divorced from the rest of humanity was well captured in a piece by The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isi... > We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world. > We are misled in a second way, by a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State’s medieval religious nature.