@DPLB,
Very well, I'm gonna try to respond your arguments, but I cannot hold a debate on an equal footing because my native language is not English, and I'm not that good with the language. Also, I don't intend to offend anyone, so if anyone feel offended I apologize from this very moment.
So, when I say "this is not about religion" I'm not saying that religion has nothing to do with this, obviously it has. But religion has always been a mass control instrument, not a finality but a tool. And it sounds funny to me when you say Christianism is "a much more tolerant religion than Islam", since christian church has commited the largest genocide in the mankind history, from the middle ages to this time. To mix Christianity and tolerant in the same sentence should be a crime, in fact. Anyway the point here is that religion is not the ultimate cause of this.
To understand what I mean when I say that USA is the culprit, we have to go back to the 70s. During the Cold War, US government needed to stop Soviet Union expansion to the south. Yeah, their expansion and influence to Afghanistan. What did US government? They started to fund rebel factions, and coup d'etats to remove the socialist government. Guess you know they was the ones who trained Bin Laden ah? Obviously their ally was and always will be Saudi Arabia. Here you got a couple of pics dude:
Your president Reagan with the fanatics of Saudi Arabia:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_-TICiq_l6M/U-W_HP9Go_I/AAAAAAAABEI/sSfEWPUm1Ks/s1600/s_a17_00reagan.jpgAnd here you can see how the journals praised the Anti-Soviet hero that the CIA itself trained:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8zrhkcIgAAhT6n.jpgCool ah? Now take a look at this photos, the first is a sight of the socialist kabul, and the second the same city after the allies of USA raided it:
Before:
http://www.afghan-network.net/Photography/kabul/kabul-paramount.gifAfter:
http://www.editoweb.eu/nicolas_maury/photo/art/default/5720418-8529061.jpg?v=1374678221And what do you think about women's freedom? Here you have another before and after photos:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oG0s1d0rkbY/Tvu8LOsJfuI/AAAAAAAAASk/Qev2-4GRfa4/s400/kabulunivstudents87.jpghttp://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2009/8/1/1249157752758/Women-in-Islamic-dress-we-001.jpgAnd to end with Afghanistan, a sample of what those "freedom fighters" did to the democratically chosen president.
This photo is a strong image so if you're sensitive don't see it:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kcj3FpLQmV4/UlWCjYXheLI/AAAAAAAADFw/_LySIwRmS-E/s1600/000_APP2001092599027_m.jpgI have a lot more of pics of women going to university, walking free on the streets... and much more, but I think you can do your own research from that point. I also have lots of press articles praising the terrorists, which was driving out the "barbaric" communists, but they're in spanish so it has no point to post them here. Anyway, where do I want to get with all this photos? Well, you can see how North America started an Islamic revolution, how they give them power, and how the whole europe sat down and watched, not doing anything at all. Why? Obviously, the reason is the one we all know.
Oil. Petroleum. The same happened in Libya with Gadafi, the same happened in Iraq with Hussein, and the same is happening now in Syria with Al'Asad. It's all the time the same sh*t. USA is running out of natural resources and they need more. USA sends CIA to fund some rebel faction to break nation stability. USA invades the country to "save" the poor poor little citizens. USA steal all the natural resources they can. Of course, with the support of their european allies and the Saudi Arabia sheikhs.
This is why I say that this has nothing to do with religion,
because the fact behind this is not religion but oil control. You obviously have the point when you say that the lower integrants of daesh acts for the sake of their religion, their god, or whatever. BUT, the real fact is that this happened because the energetic resources control, not for letting Islam to grow free. In fact, I have muslim friends here in my city who say this is crazy, this is just a radical interpretation of the Qur'an, but not the majority one. By the way, my city is on red alert, they threatened to attack us after they attack Paris so... we're next.
And you shouldn't do that fast asseverations DLPB, because shows your lack of global vision.
Oh, just a cool link to keep the topic:
https://youtu.be/PcQJpX9fLck?t=1m33s