Ask most people in the West about attacks by Islamic extremists and they will give you the historical headlines: 9/11, 7/7, Bali bombings, Charlie Hebdo, Paris attacks and so forth. Ask them to name the perpetrators and most will struggle. For years we have been watching groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) endlessly regurgitate a form of monotheism that is deplorable on all fronts, compounded by a working understanding in society that from time to time these things will happen—and, as one notable academic suggested, you must learn to live with it.