Lawfare, proselytization, propaganda, etc may play an increasing role in their strategy and their corresponding means of coercion may evolve to emphasize targeted coercion rather than public displays of terror.

Which is why it remains equally vital to begin the legal dismantling of Islam throughout the Western world. It needs to be stripped of all religious protections and shari’a law must be declared a direct violation of human rights. As a handbook for genocide, the Qur’an should be banned as well.

fred: The brutality against non-believers will cease when Islam no longer exists.

Which is why the war with Islam is an all or nothing proposition. Few people, and even fewer politicians, seem to realize this and it only fuels violent jihad.

Mike Sylwester: Rather, we can expect to see a new cottage industry of justifications for targeted assassinations of Pakistani politicians.

Originating within Pakistan or the West? Only one of those alternatives is truly useful in ending Islamic terrorism.

Alexix: Christians and Muslims and Jews are not merely differentiated by identity labels, but by serious theological differences that will not go away merely by proclaiming that they don’t matter. Moreover, to even claim that these differences aren’t important is an insult to devout worshippers of each of these religions; peace is best kept by recognizing how important theological disagreements can really be.

Muslims routinely display a rather vivid comprehension of this. How is it that such a vital distinction seems to escape Christians and Jews, (in that respective order)?