Honest, serious question here re: ISIS and their tactics.
Suppose you're chased onto a mountain with your children, with no sun protection, food, or water, and a horde of murderous ideological thugs is bent on killing you and your kind, even if you accede to their conditions and demands.
Or, if that's not to your liking, suppose you've entered a war zone to use your kindness and expertise to help tend to refugees, and you get kidnapped and shoved into an orange jumpsuit. You know what comes next.
As the camera rolls and as you're reading from the script you've been handed, and as you observe a hooded person brandish a knife that will soon sever your head, how likely are you to think the following:
"You know, I'd sort of like to be saved. But then again, something roughly analogous happened 1000 years ago to some other people when the geopolitical roles were roughly opposite. Kind of makes you think that I have this coming to me, huh? And it wasn't me who put panties on an Iraqi prisoner's head and took pictures of it, but gee, it sort of feels like in this instance, not only do two wrongs make a right, but I should be made to pay for every supposed crime of Western civilization. I guess instead of valuing my own life and the lives of other innocents, I ought to be kneeling here thinking of exactly how many more of us should be beheaded or incinerated. Because when you get right down to it, we have this coming".
Not bloody likely, but that's just me.
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