What attracts people to join ISIS?

No one pointed people being tired of the government around the world, lets get this right most wars are started for the fact people want what they don't have, ISIS is pretty much a anti government that wants control and a all Islamic state, but how is that any different then Romans and their so called Holy wars not much the only difference is its in modern times... Why people do things, is not easy to understand or always what you are told the reason is.. Lets say most of these things can be controlled if freedom was a real thing, since freedom is based on governments allowing the people to do as they need and what they need. but total freedom is never allowed and when people question it then they are looked as traders.. so if you look in time all the same things have been going on for thousands of years and has never changed.. there is no answer that can point to why people do things they do... The biggest is human emotions that control their ideas as the only truth..

Our perspective on the goings on in the Middle East is completely different from those that live there. We are invaders, people that have been meddling in their affairs, killing, bombing, sanctioning them for over half-a-century.

And the thing is, if we don't accept the fact that our interventionism in every issue in the region causes the outgrowth of extremist fundamentalist paramilitary forces and terrorist organizations we'll never do anything to stop them. You don't change your image of being a warmongering despot state invading every Middle East nation possible to ensure your own sociopolitical interests by... you know... starting a war with any Middle Eastern country that doesn't conform to your own sociopolitical interests.

ISIS has a very effective online recruiting campaign that has reached out all over the world to disaffected young people. They show videos of (supposedly) kindly ISIS members feeding starving, homeless children and women... trying to make themselves appear to be the heroes of the Middle East. Starry-eyed kids see this and want to sign up "to make a difference."

In other cases, they are Sunnis who have been systematically disenfranchised by the Iraqi government... (Former) Prime Minister Al-Maliki. Despite warnings from the West, once the US left Iraq, he started firing and humiliating Sunni political and military leaders. Sunnis watching this turned to ISIS as a way to overthrow the government.

The power to create anarchy is like getting high on OxyContin. This feeling is what is attracting to so many young people to this group. It's going to get much bigger. In the hundreds of thousands. Perhaps even millions.

Here's what's even weirder. A senior leader of Al Qaeda is actually disappointed because ISIS has stolen their thunder. This leader has even announced the opening of a new "branch" of Al Qaeda in India.

I think that's funny as sh!t.

My guess is that people who are misfits and really don't fit

into society and don't know what direction to turn, is the kind

of people who might join ISIS.

Well, the ones who are from those areas go back to support whatever war faction they support. Some of them are closet extremists, some of them despise the West, even though they live and are employed there. Others are glory hounds who have fantasy versions of fighting a war in the Middle East, even others are failures in their own countries. There was one guy who couldn't make it through boot camp, couldn't cut it as a deputy sheriff, and so he decided to make his way to Syria to be baddass he fantasized himself as.

It's the new media manufactured popular culture alternative trend within Muslim communities. It's like liberals who support communist Cuban rebel Che Guevera.

Social Justice.

I wouldn't say it's drawing MANY people in. People probably join because their religion says they should and be rewarded for their martyrdom. Plus I imagine it gives them some self-worth, excitement, etc.