<i>radical minority hijacked the terminology and twisted it into something different</i><p>A huge part of the problem is that they&#x27;re not hijacking anything.  The jihadists are reading the plain text of the Koran and the Hadiths and following them literally.  Moderate Muslims typically have very little scriptural text to stand upon when decrying ISIS and its treatment of infidels.  ISIS can be more easily argued to be following the &quot;most pure&quot; form of Islam.