"The Salafi-Jihadist Movement Is Winning" Topic

"U.S. President Donald Trump crowed victory over the so-called Islamic State in his State of the Union Address. Like so many before it, his claim was premature. The United States and its partners have indeed reduced the Islamic State's control of territory to about 20 square miles in Syria, down from the more than 35,000 square miles the group controlled at the peak of its expansion. The Islamic State's black flag no longer flies over land it governs. Meanwhile here in America, homegrown terrorist attacks seem to be tapering off, and neither al Qaeda nor the Islamic State has pulled off another 9/11-style attack. Many observers, including the president, look at these outcomes and deem the terrorist threat finished -- but our enemies take a different view. They think they're winning, and they are right.

Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and many similar groups define success as being accepted or at least tolerated by Sunni populations. These groups are part of the global Salafi-jihadist movement andbelieve they must impose a form of Islam, Salafism, upon the Muslim world, and eventually the entire world, through jihad. The number of Sunni under their governance has always been their principal metric of success…"
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Weak and corrupt politicians at the head of debt ridden, one hair from bankrupcy states, never want to go to the root. The plague ( and there is no mild version of a plague) comes from the Arabic penninsula, money, clerics, doctrine, books etc. No drying the root, no stopping the weed.
And another complimentary way to fight it is humour and ridicule which is now forbiden.

"I am bleeding… Making me the victor!"

t. Terrorists.