I agree with so much of what you have written in response to me, and I thank you for it. I care deeply for those who are living in such conditions. All the UN does is separate themselves from conflicts by condemning them. Countries round the world also distance themselves. They know what is going on is wrong, but are too afraid to say so.
Hamas was the duly elected government, elected by the Palestinian people, but not all the Palestinian people. Those who didn't vote for them had the same fate as those who didn't vote for Assad, Putin, Erdogan et al. When the Taliban moved in, people fled to the airport, knowing what was in store for them. Remember the crowds in the hold of those big cargo planes?
We can only wait and see what happens in Syria. Lebanon was a lovely place before the rot set in.
Then Isis came to Iraq. Did Iraq ever recover from Saddam Hussein, who thought he would dine on Kuwait? A long time ago, yes, but the problems of then keep coming back.
Islamic leaders want two things - power, and an Islamic world. Each new group is more fundamentalist than the old. They come up with their own versions of Islam - stricter versions, where the laws and punishments are OTT. If they can persuade enough muslims that they are more sacred, more Islam, more holy, than what went before, they can establish a new Islam.
Some of these religious fanatics - like the cults in Christianity - make up their own kind of 'holiness' if you will. They are so far removed from the Islam the people have flowing through their DNA to be unrecognisable to the average person - until they are punished. Then they learn very fast.
I remember an interview on TV of muslim Russian mothers after ISIS was beaten (they are still active and attacked a concert hall in Moscow about 18 months ago). Those Russian mothers wanted their daughters back, and they were denied. They explained that they had sent their daughters to ISIS because they thought they would get the discipline of a strict muslim marriage. They said they had problems with their daughters being attracted to the western way of life, going to concerts, music, dancing, all things forbidden in Islam.
Girls were sent from other countries - even the UK - for the same reason. Remember Begum, now stateless?
We cannot afford the luxury of feeling sorry for them, just hope it never happens again.
The conflicts of this world are almost all Islam connected, and there are so many still active on the QT and not so QT.
The fanatical groups can be small cogs in a big wheel or large cogs in a wheel of their own making - small at first, then growing through fear. Death is the punishment for not being faithful, or taking on another faith.
There cannot be any religion or faith if it is forced on people. Faith is a one to one with God, in the heart, or not at all.