Not sure how you can say this after claiming something so completely stupid as claiming muslims were provoked in the early middle ages into starting their expansion wars. History is not on your side, so you&#x27;re now making the claim that history itself is ridiculous and worthless ? And even on those terms you cannot stop making the moronic claim. Whatever happened in 1800 did not provoke muslims into expanding, as muslim expansion wars and genocides predate the very nation you&#x27;re talking about.<p>But that&#x27;s not what you&#x27;re doing at all isn&#x27;t it ? You&#x27;re just so terrified by the simple explanation that it must be wrong. And damn causality, damn rational thought, fuck sanity, we can&#x27;t be in this situation ! Any explanation is good enough just to think it&#x27;s not true, any at all.<p>You must make a great atheist.<p>My claim is simple: it would be that the ideology itself is aggressive, and that friday&#x27;s attacks and the original expansion wars, and all the wars and genocides committed by these people in between are all the result of this. This is the claim all of these terrorists make themselves, it is a claim you will find in plenty of history books, and it is what everybody would think if you merely erased the word &quot;religion&quot; from the question. Nobody would find this claim the least bit controversial if it were about a dozen political ideologies, but somehow this one ideology needs to be exempt, because it &quot;hurts people&#x27;s feelings&quot;.<p>Like all terrorist organisations, the military arm of isis is tiny relative to the total organisation. Attacking that is useless, it&#x27;s like attacking one of Goldman Sach&#x27;s cleaning staff hoping it&#x27;ll bring down the organization. In reality, of course that person will be replaced before you can blink. 99% of ISIS is in the west, in mosques in Holland and in Australia. Those need to be attacked if we&#x27;re to stop this.