Re: Will the next Great War be religious?
For the daesh, they seem (including the leader) that this is about religion. They want to draw the armies of the world into a Final Battle with them at a specified location. They know they will lose that battle and the leadership and the followers will die but they aslo believe that Allah will suddenty convert the world to Islam Yeah... it's their religion and they claim it's in their Holy Book.
I may be fuzzy on the details but that's the gist of what they're supposedly believing in.