I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes

[DirkGently]

2. "They will be heartened by every sign of overreaction, of division, of fear,

of racism, of xenophobia; they will be drawn to any examples of ugliness on social media."

And of course American conservatives will give them what they want. Confirm the childish belief that anyone can fight and win a religious war.

What would happen to a movement dependent on a constant influx of angry, alienated people, if there was no xenophobic rage to point to? If Chris Christie wasn't declaring five-year-old refugees enemies of the United States? If every Facebook a-hole wasn't waxing excitedly on about turning the Middle East into a plate of molten glass?

Conversely, what happens if everyone accepts the blind rage and Biblical mumbo-jumbo embraced by ISIS and Christian Dominonists alike, and decides that the world IS divided into religions which must fight each other to the death and bring about the end of the world?