article_snippet: But Joas Wagemakers, an assistant professor of Islamic Studies at Radboud University in the Netherlands, says these are taken far out of context by ISIS.
article_snippet: He explained that Muslim scholars throughout history have used texts in a 'decontextualised way' to suit Muslim scholars throughout history purposes and says that ISIS represent the extreme.
article_snippet: He added: 'It would be a mistake to conclude the Islamic State group's extremism is the true Islam that emerges from the Koran and Hadith.
article_snippet: Meanwhile Khaled Abou El Fadl, an Islamic law scholar at the University of California, says despite the University of California claims to the contrary, ISIS is a largely political group, borne out of the conflicts of Syria and Iraq.
article_snippet: Khaled Abou El Fadl, an Islamic law scholar at the University of California said: 'a largely political group is trying to make God a co-conspirator in a genocidal project.'
article_snippet: Ahmed al-Dawoody, an assistant professor at the Institute for Islamic World Studies at Zayed University in Dubai, agreed.
article_snippet: Ahmed al-Dawoody, an assistant professor at the Institute for Islamic World Studies at Zayed University in Dubai added that the phenomenon of reading religious sources out of context has existed throughout the ages.
article_snippet: Ahmed al-Dawoody, an assistant professor at the Institute for Islamic World Studies at Zayed University in Dubai explained: 'We should not grant any legitimacy to those who violate Islam, then hijack it and speak on it behalf. '
article_snippet: Pivoting off these, ISIS contends that anyone who rejects beheadings or enslavement is not a real Muslim and has been corrupted by modern Western ideas.
article_snippet: Sheikh Hamadah Nassar, a cleric in the ultraconservative Salafi movement said: 'Sheikh Hamadah Nassar, a cleric in the ultraconservative Salafi movement appears the Islamic State have adopted violent ideas first, then searched books of religious interpretation to find a cover for Sheikh Hamadah Nassar, a cleric in the ultraconservative Salafi movement actions.'
highlights_snippet: Argue that ISIS are political despite claims they are a religious group .
  