It's not going to be any easier to get rid of the hot Moslem fundamentalist fanatics, either, going forward. At least, that's the way I've seen it as existing since the toppling of the Ottoman Empire only about a hundred years ago, after the Armenian massacre.
Suppression of these peace-destroying religionists is never less than a temporarily effective, ongoing, never-ceasing effort for the true subjects of the Prince of Peace. Til He comes, that is.
Orthodox Christian Serbs were roasted alive over a fire by muslims during the wars there, and beheaded often.