No, it is not the the conviction that we don't stand for anything that gives Islam its energy, it the knowledge that the Middle Easterners are submissive cowards, completely controlled by their ruling religious leaders, and the only thing in their lives that relieves their feelings of impotence is to kill in the name of their fascist religion. The west is the target of their hatred because in comparison, the Islamists come up so short, that they can't stand it.
Well, they are definitely jealous, because they are part of an anti-intellectual, anti-individual death cult, and yet somehow they are just too dumb to understand why their societies do not do as well as ours... Er, Ali, maybe it's something about that death cult?
Still, I think the appeal of Islam to people such as the Western converts who all immediately start trying to kill the rest of us is that, like any cult, it preys on people who don't have very clear religious beliefs of their own or see the religion practiced by those around them as tepid and ineffectual. The "hollowing out" of Christianity by its replacement with the social ideals of the Democrat party in most mainstream churches has definitely driven away millions of people who would have been believers and made it tepid and ineffectual.