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Some of them believe what they are told, others think "one way I'm worm food, the other way I go to heaven, what's to lose?", others think it is likely, others trust their teachers or trust their God, others don't give a damn, some are just blind with anger, some think they are helping their "brothers", some think they are standing up for their families or other Muslims overseas. But all of them, to a man, do not mind committing morally evil acts because they are themselves immoral. And that is the only problem with them, not their motives or their sense of certainty. You can find men with the same motives and the same sense of certainty behaving much better all over the world and in every sect or belief. The difference is not epistemic commitments or how sure they are of anything. The difference is morality, they willingly kill innocents. They don't need to be untaught having opinions or believing things or to be more cowardly. They need to be taught morality, that committing immoral acts is the worst thing you can do, worse than getting killed, that nothing can justify it, and that killing innocents is the epitome of moral evil. This is not what the author of the piece is talking about, because he is philosophically uncomfortable teaching absolute morality. Which is his own problem, not theirs.