You are correct as to their intentions.
But then we really only need to worry about people with bad intentions when they have the capability to do harm.
In actual fact, the entire Muslim world only has capability to do harm to the West, and certainly to the USA, only to he extent we allow them to.
They have very nearly zero warfighting capability. Since such capability in the modern world is based on education and technology, their military capability is probably going backwards.
If we die, it will be by suicide, not murder. They are quite simply parasites on the modern world. Parasites we can squash anytime we decide to. Their only military capability is that we don’t want to do what is necessary to destroy them. That is no way to win a war.
only to he extent we allow them to. Ai, there’s the rub!