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The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is the most extreme manifestation of a Muslim response to the history of the past few centuries. The mystery of ISIS attracts both academic scholars and political decision-makers to debate drastically. This essay attempts to illuminate three issues of ISIS: the nature of ISIS, the relationship between ISIS and European Muslims, and US strategy towards ISIS. Firstly, ISIS is much more a terrorist organization than a functioning terrorist political entity. Secondly, the phenomenon of many European Muslims joining and fighting for ISIS has numerous reasons: not only because of the failure of the top-down integration policies of European countries, but also the bottom-up maladjustment of European Muslims; not only on account of the internal structural problems on the identity, but also the external stimulating factors, such as “anti-Islamism” or “Islamophobia”. Thirdly, in the guidance of its “ambiguous” strategy towards ISIS, US implements “multilateral” policies and “limited”