The extremists are fully bent on making all the world their version of an Islamic paradise, as they tried to do in Iran and Afghanistan. We Infidels have but a few choices:

1. We can all convert to Islam and hope that's enough to keep them from killing us.

2. We can try appeasing them. Who knows, it might actually work for once. Somehow, I doubt it.

3. We can resist.

Personally, I prefer #3.

Lest anyone think that appeasement has much chance at working, you don't have to look any further back than the attack on the French tanker near Yemen last September. From this BBC article:

The group sent a statement to the daily Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, saying a US frigate had been the original target.



It was quoted as saying the attack on the French tanker was "no problem because they are all infidels, and infidelity is one and the same."