The key thing to understand is that ISIS is first and foremost a criminal and terrorist organization, not a religious group. They use religion (or rather a perverted interpretation of it) to construct a unifying framework, a story for its members, something that they use to silence their members&#x27; potential critical thinking.<p>Don&#x27;t think for one second that the higher-ups in ISIS and the ones who planned this recent attack are religious people or drink their own ideology kool-aid. ISIS leaders are criminals and do whatever it takes to advance their &quot;careers&quot;.