You actually have a valid point. If Islam is allowed to carry on in the face of the ‘Great Satan’, then it is because Allah is protecting them; so they think.
It has nothing to do with America showing restraint and proportionate response.
To transform Islam requires convincing them that Allah has allowed America to destroy some of its exalted relics and sites with an eminent destruction of more of the same. They will then think Allah is displeased with them and will wonder why.
It is at this point of introspection that the Muslim adherent can be drilled that the ‘true’ Islam follower must wage the battle inside their own soul, that part of the soul that contains the infidel must be fought on the inside and never taken outside to other beings. The infidel behavior of others is never to be examined except by each person unto its own. The programming impulse to murder infidels outside oneself must be neutralized. In fact, to even question another person of their behavior to Islam is to be forbidden. It is all of it, to be contained inside each individual. There is to be no collective.
The teachings of Islam are to be considered as historical reading, not as a contemporary manifesto. The interpretation of such reading is to be sought from Islamic scholars who are aware of the dire consequences of taking up literal jihad according to the historical documents.
A destruction of an exalted site of Islam will serve as a new chapter of Islamic history that points to the horrible consequences of going against the introspective and secular approaches described above.
A current Muslim jihadist will have two choices, they can kill themselves or they can become defanged by struggling to battle the infidel that resides within them. In the latter case, the ‘peaceful Muslim’ is to be rewarded with work, family, status, and a standard of living.
All other persons originating from Muslim culture can go a secular route or convert to a belief system of their choosing, the latter of a Christian persuasion preferred.
The above is the approach of Mustafa Atatürk. If he isn’t already, he should be required reading in the War College on how to defeat Radical Islam ideology.
He of the founding of secular Turkey? Sad to say that Turkey is now radicalizing and moving more towards an Islamic State.