My family in Iraq is threatened by this madness--therefore I claim a little more right to speak on it than the bigoted ignoramuses in here who arrogantly attribute it to my faith.  The Da'esh represent the fruits of trees which the mighty "enlightened" west watered with Muslim blood.  Your good Christian Germans raised up their Ottoman sock puppets, and your good Christian British did the same with the criminal 'Sa'ud' family to oppose them.  After the sun set on the latter's bloody "empire" the US and USSR stepped in as the new puppet-masters.  The DIRECT result of their greedy manipulation is what we see now.  You arm and finance murderers and when they do what you HIRED them to do, feign that you're "appalled" by their crimes.  I previously compared this insanity to a bird of prey that attacks the targets of its choice upon release from its master's glove--including its master.  Malcolm X (Rah'matullahi alayhi) put it another way: "The chickens have come home to roost."