Hatred and murder is part of their 'religion'.
Einstein.
I could make that argument for much of Christian history. Until fairly recently in terms of 2000yrs, a history drenched in blood and crusade. Oppression and hatred for those who didn’t follow the orthodoxy.
Any religion has the chance to go toxic. Christianity did then, Islam now. Maybe the UK historian who said recently Islam is in its ‘middle ages’ is correct, maybe and hopefully it can come out of this horrible time and like Christianity, regain peace. Sadly not in our lifetime though.
We HAVE to fight this war as much to cleanse the religion of Islam of its toxicity as we do to protect ourselves. Islam is not going away, so it needs to be cleansed by force and death if necessary of its hateful elements.