what are the differences/similarities between muslims and isis? how are muslims and isis different from each other? how are they the same? and why? this is a question, not a statement.
ISIS is a primarily political organisation (albeit built around a religious core) with a leadership, policies and aims. Muslims are a massively diverse group of people who happen to share a singular characteristic (and because it’s a religion, with some fuzziness regarding who counts as a true/real/good Muslim). You can’t really compare such fundamentally different concepts in the way you imply. From a purely conceptual point their relationship is the same as countless other large groups of people and organisations a proportion of them are in. For example, I am in the diverse group of “professional computer programmers” while the British Computer Society (BCS) is an organisation that some professional computer programmers are members of. Many aren’t, maybe because they don’t like it’s policies, they don’t meet the membership criteria or because they’re not British. Muslims, especially on a world-wide scale, have vastly different beliefs and practices. You’re probably more aware of the diversity within Christianity (from Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Orthodox, Evangelists etc.) and Islam is no less diverse (often for very similar historic reasons). The beliefs behind ISIS are those of a specific sect (and taken to obvious extremes) and they oppose many other Islamic sects as much if not more than that do those outside Islam.
