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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The leaders might not but the followers certainly do.
They find comfort in it and it allows them to justify following pretty sh%%%y orders
That and the threat of execution by RPG
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ISIS also gives you food, shelter, spending money, some protection from other people with guns, plus of course a gun you can use to take stuff instead of paying for it.
Many ISIS "affiliates" are pretty much just local militias or gangs they've hired to join them. I'm not saying Islam/Wahhabism has nothing to do with it, because obviously it does, and there's probably plenty of true believers mixed in there, but some of the reasons people join are just basic human stuff.
ISIS probably isn't that bad as an employer, if you have the stomach for killing people.
It's one of the reasons the situation in Iraq/Syria is so grim. Even if you manage to destroy ISIS as an organization, most likely some other a-hole will take over the oilfields and start filling the power vacuum with his own army. Those countries are just so bombed to hell now that for a lot of people joining some armed group is if not the only option available, at least the most tempting option.
Yemen seems to be heading down the same path with their civil war.