it's a fair insult to Islam to try and tie this guy in as a true believer, even as a radicalist. The jihadi has to strike effectively against the enemies of islam to gain entry to heaven if s/he dies in holy war. That is a long bow to draw to compare holy war with kidnapping people in a chocolate shop. This guy is a lunatic trying to use Islam as an excuse. He's about as muslim as charles manson is a christian
Hang on, he's the one doing the insulting, he sees himself as true believer .
It might be a long bow to draw as a rational person ( actually an impossible bow to draw), but what about the bombers in London , or Spain , or the guy that beheads journalists, or pilots planes into towers, or blows up consulates, or cuts a mans head off in there streets, or blows himself up in an Iraqi marketplace ?
They all justify their complete fucking insanity on some jihadist bullshit that they will gain entry into heaven.
This is the crux of the problem with the connection to Islam - this certainty that heaven is better than earth and that you can get there with rewards by getting killed in a holy war - all that they have to do now, is convince themselves that who they are about to murder is somehow part of that war that existsn their head.
What seems clear though, is this guy isn't or wasn't a psychopath - unlike the Aussie who has gone off to fight for IS and cuts peoples heads off for fun - he seems to be a psychopath who has found an accepting organisation