A rarely quoted part of Churchill's The River War describes the British attitude to the war," ... there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile. To this end the Dervishes, from the Mahdi and the Khalifa downwards, have been loaded with every variety of abuse and charged with all conceivable crimes. This may be very comforting to philanthropic persons at home; but when an army in the field becomes imbued with the idea that the enemy are vermin who cumber the earth, instances of barbarity may easily be the outcome. This unmeasured condemnation is moreover as unjust as it is dangerous and unnecessary..." This attitude, so soon after the British Holiness Movement! But by the Grace of God, we can easily act as depraved as we can become.
With a much less influencial Church holding little or no sway in Europe, the UK and France in particular, the Islamist Mohamedans would be wise to reconsider their attacks and virulent preaching, if only as a matter of self preservation!