Religion itself has nothing to do with it. We have been interfering in the Middle East since at least the early fifties for no other reason than to protect our "interest" in their oil. Since then we have been responsible, as I said above, for hundreds of thousands of casualties. To be ignorant of all this is lazy. To be surprised at retaliation is equally ignorant, if not disingenuous.
Are jihadists right to do what they're doing? Of course not. But this xenophobic response is pointless, other than to make the xenophobes feel better. Can we "destroy" Islam? No. We couldn't do it 800 years ago, and we can't do it now. We are in a mess, but it's a mess that we created. Why? Because it's profitable. So don't be looking for any solutions -- easy or otherwise -- any time soon.
