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: The group purport to recreate the conquests and rule of the Prophet Muhammad and his successors and maintains ISIS worst brutalities - such as beheading captives - only prove ISIS purity in following what ISIS contends is the prophet's example.
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: Experts have now said that ISIS misinterprets the Koran in order to wage jihad .
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: 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.