Big Hat, No Cattle.
These scumbags lack the cajones to go toe to toe with warriors. As such, they will prey on women, children and liberal journalists and aid workers.
They have balls. They're certainly not afraid to die. They do lack equipment, though. And it's not like we're gonna face them on the battlefield with like equipment just to keep it sporting, any more than any military has ever trimmed its numbers, reduced the quality of its men or scrimped on equipment just so ensure qualitative and quantitative parity before battle. War isn't the Olympics. As Churchill once wrote about Islam during the River War in Sudan:
[Islam] has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
If they had technological and economic parity, we'd be speaking Arabic and bowing towards Mecca.