This is what is driving ISIS:
The Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) has prophesied about several events that will occur just before the advent of the Day of Judgment. Among these, Muhammad (saw) has foretold the return of Jesus (as), which will materialize when a one eyed claimant to divinity (Antichrist or Dajjal) will attempt to misguide the humanity into worshipping him. Messiah will descend from the heavens in Damascus, pray behind Imam Mahdi, pursue and kill the Antichrist, destroy the savage and unbelieving armies of Gog and Magog, and bring peace and brotherhood to the world. Christians will recognize the truth and accept him only as a Messenger of God; the religion of God (Islam) will justly rule the world.
There will be no oppression and no need to fight oppressors (war will be abolished) and no need to collect Jizyah (since there will be no non-Muslim people of the Book to collect this tax from). Every human being will be well-off and no one will accept charity. Messiah will perform Hajj (pilgrimage), marry, remain married for 19 years, beget children, and die after living on earth for 40 years. His death will signal the beginning of the last days.
The Holy Prophet (after making mention of the appearance of the Dajjal) said: “In the meantime, When the Muslims will be making preparations to fight him, will be lining up (for the Prayer) and the lqamah will have been pronounced, Jesus son of Mary shall descend and join them in the Prayer; and the enemy of Allah (Dajjal i.e. the Antichrist) on seeing him shall start dissolving like salt in water. If Jesus were to leave him alone, he would melt to death anyway, but Allah will have him killed at his hand, and he will show his blood on his spear to the Muslims (Muslim)”.
There are Ahadith about dajjal and his fitna. In one of those Ahadith, the Holy Prophet (PBHU) said that: “Whoever memorizes ten Ayaat from the beginning of Surah Al-Kahf, will be protected from the Dajjal.”
http://www.risingkashmir.com/middle-east-crisis-and-armageddon/
People can obviously be fooled into anything
An op-ed from our old newspaper Chitral News from our FATA days http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1155685/posts :
In a Friday sermon or a ‘tableeghi ijtima’, one may hear an hour long speech about the importance of offering five time prayers, fasting, going for pilgrimage, tableegh etc, and about vices like drinking alcohol, eating pork meat, personal appearance like keeping beard and dress code etc, but not a word would be uttered about the prohibition of financial corruption in Islam. If alcohol is prohibited in Islam so is bribery even more vehemently prohibited, but bribe takers/givers would be seen confidently sitting in the front row in a mosque eagerly listening to sermons against alcohol consumption.
Misplaced priorities with our preachers is the real reason for denigration of the Islamic image. The attribute of God almighty as the ‘most merciful’ is grossly malinterpreted to imply as if God would forgive all sins of Muslims including financial corruption and sins against humanity etc.
Frequently repeated ‘assurance’ to Muslims by preachers is that if a Muslim recited kalima tayyaba just once, eight million of his sins would be annulled as a reward, or if one goes for Haj (pilgrimage to Mecca) all previous sins would be washed away, are the real cause for corruption amongst Muslims, whether in Pakistan or elsewhere in the world.
Other religions, or even those who do not believe in any religion, do observe the universal ethics of honesty and therefore fare better in this regard. With Muslims, the religious preaching defines moral behaviour and if honesty is not the priority for a Muslim religious preacher how can the preacher’s disciples exercise honesty.
http://www.chitralnews.com/Editorial-%20Corruption%20Muslims-08%20July-2014.htm