Naw - They're much, much dumber than that because the war was over by the time they 'began fighting', so everything was resolved by the time they decided to join the cult.
Ya' know; Except for womens' rights in places like the middle-East...
... But middle-Easterners are all wonderful people, and you're a bigot if you question that, and we're not allowed to talk about womens' rights in other countries, because it undermines the cultists' ability to complain about their own lives and delusions of oppression...