Quoted from reddit.
"What is the point of all of this?
The extremists are trying to provoke a war.
Their goal is to cause a backlash against muslims in general, driving some of those towards extremism, leading to even more attacks, causing an even stronger backlash, and so on.
Their end goal is to unify muslims against all unbelievers, fight a big war which they believe they're destined to win, and unify the world in some kind of global caliphate.
Edit for clarity:
This isn't just random conjecture, it's what groups like ISIS actually believe will happen.
ISIS believes that there will be a big final battle between the "Romans" (i.e. christians) and the muslims in Dabiq (a Syrian town), because of a hadith in Sahih Muslim that supposedly foretells it.
Very(!) roughly summarized, they believe that the muslims will defeat the christians under the leadership of the Mahdi, then muslim Jesus will return to earth to defeat the false messiah after he kills the Mahdi, and finally, the entire world will be muslim.
That's why their propaganda magazine is named "Dabiq", and it's why they've been surprisingly enthusiastic about countries joining the coalition against them.
And speaking of Dabiq (the magazine), here's an article they published on the "extinction of the grayzone" (i.e. muslims who aren't actively siding with ISIS), where it's argued that 'you're either with ISIS or against it', and that "the time had come for another [terrorist attack] [...] to further bring division to the world and destroy the grayzone everywhere".
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