NYTimes.com: Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim Countries

From The New York Times:

In Europe and the West, Islamic State operatives have been instructed to kill at random, but more care is seemingly taken to plan attacks in majority-Muslim nations like Bangladesh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/world/middleeast/isis-muslim-countries-bangladesh.html

""It's a very stark difference in approach," says Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who studies jihadist groups. "Al Qaeda wants Muslims to believe that its terrorism is morally justifiable, whereas the Islamic State argues that only its followers have moral legitimacy.""