Daesh have no more relation to salafism than what Bush and Blair&#x27;s murderous excursions have to do with WMD or democracy. 
Daesh apparently attracts two categories of people:<p>1. people suffering from PTSD who have lost much of their capacities to think clearly; specifically, part of butchered Sunni community in Iraq following the sectarian war fuelled by US invaders after years of deadly sanctions (they also include former members of Saddam&#x27;s secular stasi-equivalent <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spiegel.de&#x2F;international&#x2F;world&#x2F;islamic-state-files-show-structure-of-islamist-terror-group-a-1029274.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spiegel.de&#x2F;international&#x2F;world&#x2F;islamic-state-file...</a>), and some of the Syrians going through Assad&#x27;s butchery. 
This is no different from how a bunch of peaceful villagers turned into brutal group that was Khemer Rouge (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnpilger.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything-that-flies-on-everything-that-moves" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;johnpilger.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything...</a>).<p>2.A tiny western group who are largely clueless about the world (almost entirely about religion), seeking certain warped sense of glory: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;04&#x2F;jihad-fatal-attraction-challenge-democracies-isis-barbarism" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2014&#x2F;sep&#x2F;04&#x2F;jihad-f...</a><p>On a different note related to welfare, Saudis are probably not that worse off in certain ways: any (poor) Saudi is eligible to receive funding&#x2F;stipend from his&#x2F;her government for studying in world&#x27;s top universities, unlike many rich capitalistic states that are effectively no less of an oligarchy.