Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
A comparison to Communists would be sort of like if, instead of taking both violent and non-violent action to foment and enable the revolution of the proletariat state-by-state and across the world, Communist terrorists were looking to cause destruction such that enemy states would collapse with maximum internal damage, with the Select moving in through the rubble under the leadership of Zombie Lenin to absorb fragmented communities and enforce proper Communist rule over humanity.

Another way to put it is that Islamism is the opposite of Communism in terms of parochiality. Islamism is only "international" in the most technical sense of our terminology.
Communists sought the destruction of the state though, not random individuals who have nothing to do with the institutionalised state. The only way that ordinary individuals would be affected was if the opposing blocs flared into formal war. Other than that, the Communist states kept to themselves, and the capitalist states kept to themselves. Unlike Islamists, who view western civilisation as something against their creed, who hold westernised individuals as representative of the state that they live in, and who randomly but actively target individuals and try to maximise civilian damage.

I'll ask this question: how do we keep from being targets of Islamist militants? If we don't have an answer, and we don't know how to get a definitive answer, that is indicative of the difference between Communism and Islamism.