Islam in Europe: perception and reality

[Mudhammam]

So, then, the alternative is... What? Let's negotiate with ISIS, or Boko Haram, or one of the other thousand insurgent groups holding the civilians in their region hostage and threatening our security and hope we can come to some reasonable terms with them? Is it only a war if they put on combat gear that identifies their allegiance because firearms and makeshift bombs don't qualify?

Of course intention is something. That's like saying no side is ever better than the other in war because both cause civilian deaths.