Biblical Apocalypse as incentive for ISIS goals ?

Is ISIS’ Apocalypse claims successfully serve it’s cause?

  • 1 ISIS believes Apocalypse myth real and Using it as a useful tool to push it’s agenda, knowing the West steadfastly sees it as just another myth
  • 2 ISIS does not believe myth, but using it ,
  • to attain geopolitical goals, thinking the West will
  • come to believe in it
  • 3 The West is using ISIS’s myths to sustain a regressive and backward policy , believing their vintage beliefs to be counter productive to their cause
  • 4 The West is allowing myths to create an atmosphere of cultural digress, to try to balance the beliefs of differing groups in the Middle East
0 voters

Obama’s speech alluded to the Apocalypse. Without trying to find reasons for using this inter-religious notion, within his narrative of describing his take on the increasing way in which myths are used in geopolitical conflict, which of the below is most likely?
You may vote for two choices below.