IMHO, ISIS is just not as refined as Al-Qaeda.
AQ will just fly planes into buildings...ISIS just takes a knife and cuts your head off.
Islam just has different mobs engaged in a mob war..
It’s just western countrys do the same thing differently..
Socialists, Fascists, Communists, Dictators, Marxists, Maoists, Democratic demogogues(parliaments).. Oligarchs, Kingdoms.. ETC..
Mob Rule by Mobsters.. truly Democrats..
ALL claiming to be “PROGRESSIVE”.. but are regressive..
“AQ will just fly planes into buildings...ISIS just takes a knife and cuts your head off.”
You have captured the essence, Berdie. AQ is a centrally controlled linkage of radicals and looks to execute large, complex attacks against Western powers they see as interfering and defiling Islam in the Middle East.
ISIS is a loosely networked collaboration of Islamists which seeks to recreate the Caliphate as it was in 700 AD and start Armageddon now. Its tactics are focused on convincing individuals to act locally and on their own initiative, with conversion to violence and training over the Internet.
https://www.coursera.org/course/understandingterror