ISIS, religious or a political organization?

As you should already know, the Syrian civil war created ISIS that then spilled over to neighboring Iraq. They claim to be the rightly guided caliphate with pure sharia law, but then there is some questions to this entire "ISIS" legitimacy. First legitimacy is that a fully guided caliphate is to be agreed by ALL Muslims and not just a few.

Ataturk
Founder of todays Turkey

The last caliphate, the Ottoman caliphate/sultanate/empire was abolished in 1928 after multiple power struggles inside the empire, one of the most known "rebel" commander against the empire was the first Turkish president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, where he led a rebellion and formed the modern day secular Turkey.

Did you know that homosexuality was legalized in 1858 inside the Ottoman empire? Today inside a muslim government, being open to homosexuality is almost a guaranteed deathbed. Even though the Ottoman empire is considered a legitimate caliphate by the majority of muslims, it has one of the most secularized laws by the 18 centuries.




Back to today, while some imams certainly supports ISIS the majority of muslims I know in real life is heavily against it, they claim that the caliphate is not legalized because of their brutality. Is this really the case? Some Gulf Nations actually has similar punishment as ISIS and nobody dears to speak against it. Raif Bandawi spoke against the "Sharia" government and supported secularism, now he is jailed for a long time, sentenced to 1000 lashes and fined one million Saudi Rial. His wife has defected to Canada along with their children.

It has also been reported that many of senior and important ISIS figures are from the former more secular Baath party of Iraq. A top general under Saddam Hussein's Iraq has been reportedly killed after a clash in Fallujah.