Free Republic’s own Matt Bracken (freep name: Travis McGee) wrote an excellent article on the “Gates of Vienna” blog taking much the same position you do but fleshing it out much deeper and thinking it through very thoroughly. He basically sees it as a struggle between the global elitists, the islamists and the nationalists. Well worth checking out. Maybe he will visit this thread and leave a link to the article.
We are witnessing the prelude to the culmination of a titanic struggle between three great actors. Three great social forces are now set in motion for a 2016 showdown and collision that will, in historical terms, be on par with the First and Second World Wars.
Two of these great social forces are currently allied in a de facto coalition against the third. They have forged an unwritten agreement to jointly murder the weakest of the three forces while it is in their combined power to do so. One of these two social forces would be content to share totalitarian control over large swaths of the globe with the other remaining social force. One of these social forces will never be satisfied until it achieves complete domination of the entire planet. So what are these three great social forces? They are Islam, international socialism, and nationalism.
Allow me to explain the salient aspects of each, and how they relate to the coming 2016 cataclysm.
Tet, Take Two: Islam’s 2016 European Offensive
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/11/tet-take-two-islams-2016-european-offensive/
L’offensive islamique en Europe: un Têt numéro 2?
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/02/loffensive-islamique-en-europe-un-tet-numero-2/
Tet, Klappe Zwei: Die europäische Offensive des Islam im Jahr 2016
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/03/tet-klappe-zwei-die-europaische-offensive-des-islam-im-jahr-2016/