[danans]

You statement assumes that everyone who joins/supports ISIS is evil or brainwashed like the people in that article.

Imagine you are a resident of a town just captured by ISIS in Syria. Assuming that they don't kill you immediately for being a Shia, Kurd, Christian or Yazidi, how hard would it be for you to say no to supporting them, when the alternative is death, or to flee to another place only to be forced into destitution due to lack of economic opportunity.

No doubt ISIS seems to have a special capability to recruit people with sociopathic desires, but any army marches on its stomach, and that requires regular, non-evil people, to participate in the effort.

[jules]

This isn't about evil sociopaths, it's about people who are deluded about what's good and evil. ISIS thinks they are doing good.