article_snippet: The Islamic State cherry picks sections of the Koran and misinterprets the accounts of the Prophet Muhammad in order to wage jihad and sign up new recruits, experts say.
article_snippet: Experts have now said that ISIS misinterprets the Koran in order to wage jihad .
article_snippet: But now Muslims clerics and other experts are speaking out, saying that the group hand picks what the group hand wants from Islam's holy book, the Koran, and from accounts of Muhammad's actions and sayings, known as the Hadith.
article_snippet: It then misinterprets many of these, while ignoring everything in the texts that contradicts those hand-picked selections.
article_snippet: Writings by the group's clerics and its English-language online magazine, Dabiq, are full of citations from Koranic verses, the Hadith and centuries of interpreters, mostly from hardliners.
article_snippet: Muslim clerics say ISIS just hand picks certain parts of the Koran to boost Muslim clerics cause while ignoring other parts that contradict Muslim clerics selections .
article_snippet: Muslim clerics also say that while misreading some texts, ISIS also ignore certain Koranic verses which promote mercy, preservation of life and protection of innocents, all of which are binding under Islamic Shariah law.
article_snippet: Part of the problem in countering the group's ideology is that moderate clerics have struggled to come up with a cohesive, modern interpretation, especially of the Koranic verses connected to Muhammad's wars with Muhammad enemies.
article_snippet: Militants often point to the Koran's ninth sura, or chapter, which includes calls for Muslims to 'fight polytheists wherever you find polytheists' and to subdue Christians and Jews until polytheists pay a tax.
article_snippet: Moderate clerics counter that these verses are linked to specifics of the time and note other verses that say there is 'no force in religion.'
article_snippet: And while moderate clerics disagree with the Islamic State group's interpretation point-by-point, at times moderate clerics accept the same ideals.
article_snippet: But other clerics counter the verse means Muslim fighters should swiftly kill enemies in the heat of battle, and is not a call to execute captives.
highlights_snippet: But experts say ISIS just cherry pick sections of the Koran for the Koran cause .
  
highlights_snippet: Add experts misinterpret Islamic texts and ignore others that contradict others .
  