I assume you are talking about ISIS here. This is my current understanding.<p>The explicit goal of ISIS is the creation of a caliphate. A caliphate is an area governed by a caliph that enforce their strict interpretation of the quran in their limits.<p>The terrorist acts that we suffer in the west have mainly two aims: terrorize the civil population so they force the governments to stop acting in the area and attract fighters to their cause.<p>If something, their ideal world is not one where they kill us all but where they convert us all.<p>Can you tell me where you heard&#x2F;read that they want &quot;to kill us all&quot;? Is in the same place where they say that they just &quot;hate our freedoms&quot;?