ISIS has tremendous popular support. A lot of ordinary people throughout the Arab world applaud their return to a pre-westernized Arab society. They actively pr

ISIS has tremendous popular support. A lot of ordinary people throughout the Arab world applaud their return to a pre-westernized Arab society. They actively provoke Arab governments, because it can lead to revolution in those other countries. So yeah, lots of wealthy individuals in Saudi Arabia have funded them. But the government itself is terrified.