Talk:ISISball/@comment-32941881-20170825011916/@comment-27160012-20170825171609

ISIS's ideology, a combination of Wahhabism and Salafism, is very similar to Saudi Arabian government's main religion, and also largely originated from that kingdom. Both also view secularism as illegal according to their beliefs, and both ban alcohol.

And yet, Saudi Arabia is considered a major ally of the United States, and also as "the home of Islam" given that the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina reside there.

Thus ISIS does practice a form of Islam (perhaps incorrect?), which came from Saudi Arabia (also incorrect?), but refined it to be more puritanical, despite the Saudis' attempts at denouncing ISIS.

"ISIS is not Islam" sounds like hypocrisy to me, and is very likely a result of self-contradictory teachings found in the Quran itself, creating not only ordinary people but also extremists.

What people look like do not matter. What ideas they have about everything do matter.