We're just not accustomed to dealing with.........

............such serious-minded folk.  The Atlantic does us a favor by providing some needed context for the phenomenon known as ISIS.

There is a temptation to rehearse this observation—that jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise—and make it fit the Islamic State. In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse.

Full essay is here.  Take the time.

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