&quot;I don&#x27;t understand why we shouldn&#x27;t believe what&#x27;s coming straight out of ISIS&#x27; mouth.&quot;<p>Because they&#x27;re proven masters at propaganda and messaging. To take prop at face value is the definition of naive.<p>&quot;ISIS has said they&#x27;re killing us because of their interpretation of a book written in the first millennia.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s their justification for their actions, not the reason. Come on.<p>Recruiting for ISIS pays $5000 - $10000 per successful recruit.<p>If their true motivation is purely religious, if religion is the INCENTIVE, then why incentivize people with lump sumps larger than yearly income from honest work?<p>ISIS represents a way out of poverty, at least, that&#x27;s how they sell it in recruiting.<p>&quot;When someone shoots up a Planned Parenthood, however, he doesn&#x27;t even have to make a public statement and the same people are quick to blame Christian beliefs or rhetoric and immediately accept the ideological reason for the violence.&quot;<p>We call that quid pro quo, and yes, it&#x27;s intentional. If Islam itself is responsible for the actions of a minority of a minority, then it stands to reason that Christianity itself is responsible for the actions of a minority of a minority. So long as conservatives blame Islam in general for ISIS, we will blame Christianity in general for Westboro Baptist, for Clinic Terrorists, for Jehovah Witness child negligence murder, etc.<p>&quot;Why don&#x27;t we say that gunmen attack Planned Parenthoods because of income inequality in the United States?&quot;<p>We do, often, we bemoan the war against education (ignorance as pride) and growing wealth inequality for social tension and violence both here in America and worldwide.