I’d just like to interject for moment. What you’re referring to as ISIS, is in fact, ISIL, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Islamic State. ISIS is not a militant group unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning terrorist group made useful by Islamic extremists, western arms and a vital system of sharia law, comprising a full threat to the west.

Many westerners are influenced by Islamic State every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the militant group which is committing many devastating atrocities today is often called ISIS, and many of its victims are not aware that it is basically the Islamic State, made up of Islamic extremists.

There really is an ISIS, and these people are being killed by it, but it is just a part of the system they’re killed by. ISIS is the Syrian sector: The extremists in the militant group that commit atrocities in Syria. ISIS is an essential part of Islamic State, but useless by itself; it can only function in Syria alone. ISIS is normally working in combination with the ISIL: the whole militant group is basically ISIL with syria added, or Islamic State. All the so-called ISIS members are really members of Islamic State!