Here’s an analysis of ISIS that places the bleme for its rise squarely on U.S. foreign policy decisions.

“From Sunni to Shi’a, secular to conservative, Islamist to liberal, autocratic to democratic, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his doppelganger of a Caliphate have united the Muslim world like no one else has – against them…. Though ISIS assembles its rhetoric with bits and pieces of religion, its relationship to Islam is like Frankenstein to a human being, or a zombie to a living person.”

Check out “The Atlantic’s big Islam lie: What Muslims really believe about ISIS” by Haroon Moghul.