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In addition, the ISIS leadership consists of Sunni components from the Ba'ath Party of Iraq. They recruit the radical jihadists to do their dirty work. Those at the top simply want power and use the ISIS platform to support their power-grabbing agenda.signals said:ISIS exists because of many factors that came together after the US pulled out of Iraq. The Sunnis were a minority and PM al-Maliki it is said didn't represent them properly. The Shiites were obviously racists towards the Sunni minority.Push came to shove and ISIS was born. ISIS is an offshoot of al-Qaeda inspired by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.So the root cause is the early withdraw of US troops.