Bushfires

Islamic terrorism is a bit like a bushfire; you put one bit out and it springs up somewhere else. As the fires in Iraq and Syria are quelled so a new conflagration begins in the Philippines. The town of Marawi is under seige as the forces of ISIS attempt to promote their ideology by the use of fear and weapons, murdering the innocent.
Mainstream Muslims try to argue that these people are not true followers of Islam, they try to distance themselves from this militant wing but it won't wash. The reason they distance themeselves from the militants is because to accept them as Muslims is to accept that the Qur'an is open to misinterpretation and if they accept this they must accept that the holy book cannot be the word of Allah.
The truth is, however, that this is the case and the sooner the imams and ayatollahs accept this the sooner the world will be free of this vile ideology.