ISIS is just thugs group looking for turf

I find it troubling that the Daily Herald, CNN, most all media outlets, and many local and federal legislators right to the top continue to refer to the central mission of ISIS, to create an Islamic state.

ISIS is often referred to very cautiously by the aforementioned parties as strictly a terrorist organization and never referred to as "Islamic terrorist."

So, why give the ISIS organization any level of credibility by acknowledging that they can create an Islamic state? They are clearly not Islamic according to the media and top officials.

It appears to me the media and parties above are quite content in giving credence to ISIS and will proudly acknowledge their intent, but they will not acknowledge who they really are.

To give credence to ISIS as having the ability to create an Islamic state is not possible. This can only besmirch Islam and all that it supposedly stands for. Stop the hyspocrisy, drop the Islamic state stuff and call the terrorist exactly what they are, a misaligned gang of highly sponsored and financially backed thugs that want their own turf.

Gerald Bromley

Schaumburg