Oil money has reinvigorated the threat, but Jihad has been unrelenting against us heathens for over a millennium.
It is a cancer on civilization. I doubt there is a cure, only another hoped for remission. Many many more will die first.
Other religions are set aside somewhat from government. Islam is both religion and governance. There is no check and balance constraining evil. The more powerful, less circumscribed, that government is, the more tyrannical it becomes. Islam is the end case.
In other religions one might ask if one has committed a sin by killing, even if in a justified war. Killing is bad, and must be justified.
In Islam, killing heathens is good. It is a holy act. One only waits to kill if one does not yet have the opportunity to kill, or at least enslave and subjugate, as many as one might hope.
The sacrament of Christians is the blood and body of Christ. The sacrament of Islamists is the blood and body of heathens - us.
Peace is not a strategic goal, but only a tactic, in times of weakness, to gain strength.
The combination of religion and ruling, the conviction that Islam is an all encompassing order of every aspect of life, is the fatal flaw of Islam. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.