Responding to the fact of Islamism (ISIS)

Hello again.
   It's great to have this avenue of engagement/escape, where I can muse, wonder, question and share, assuming the best, that some might read and ponder on their own, similar things. Now, where angels fear to tread.
  Who can not be affected by the self-righteous, judgmental violence happening in our world? Nearly every day we hear of educated and fairly well-off youth  in our own culture (the country doesn't matter) leaving it all behind and trying, successfully or not, to join ISIS, offering their young lives in attempting to establish a radical Islamic Caliphate, where all who don't agree with their thought are killed or enslaved. If this fact does not evoke a reaction in people everywhere, they are brain dead.
  How do we react? 'BOMB THEM ALL!' is an automatic answer, one that is hard to argue against, because we all know of the evil ISIS are enacting. They must be stopped. That much is certainly true.
  I have a problem, however. I really do think that the Way of Jesus of Nazareth is the Way of God. Though I must take seriously that members of ISIS also have that understanding, that their way is that of truth, I cannot allow their understanding from paralysing me. As in all things, the question I must ask of myself is, "What is the Way of Love?"
  Firstly, ISIS must be contained. Even though that will assume violence, even though the Way of Jesus was that of non-violence, I must, relunctanly and in sadness, advocate and support violence, the way of evil, hopefully, a lesser evil, to contain a greater evil, in the hope that dialogue and understanding might prevail in the future. So, a policy of containment, military action to hold ISIS to the territory they have already under their control, and to re-take some areas in which they are most harming and killing.
  But 'BOMBING THE HELL OUT OF THEM'? No. We must love them at least that much.
  Above all, we must recognize that in this world, especially in this modern world, nothing happens in a vacume, in and by itself. All things have causes.
  The history and very nature of Islamism is a recent one, a movement in the Middle East and Africa that has blossomed in the last 60 years or so. Every place where it is flourishing is a country or area that was under power of a foreign (European) power for generations, where probably the very 'country' was a creation of foreign empires and where the local people have really never had a chance to grow and be empowered, at least, not for any length of time. The people's identity is still in the local tribes, peoples who have always been exploited and not recognized.   So, politically and socially, they are frustrated, angered and suffering. They are open to another way. They need a new way.  The old ways have betrayed them.
  Spiritually, they have seen nothing good in the so-called 'modern world', its greed, injustice, systemic violence and the system of education that has come with it.  It has offered only false promises. They have experience only the corruption of the wealthy of their lands, those that accepted the 'modern' and 'western' ways. Only those in power have benefited in any way from the obvious wealth and opportunities of the world at large. Their moderate Muslim faith has been as ineffectual in their lives as had the usual Christian faith in theirs. THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY!
  Do any of us disagree with them, really, not with their resultant actions, but in with their frustrations? Who of us do not think that there must really be a better way? That there must be a way of life that blends spirituality, commerce, life and the whole of our existence? Do we all not know this and yearn for this? How can we blame people who, however terrible their actions be, for their motives and dreams?
  In the near past, our young people might have joined cults, the Moonies, Jones Town, etc.. The youth are idealistic, yes, but often their vision and priorities have much to teach the older, who are more apt to just let things slide. We usually complain about the youth being unmotivated, but when they are, they often call the statusquo into question and react against their elders. That is usual.
  So, what can I do? Not much, on one hand, but everything I can, on the other. I can try my best to clearly announce the deadness of the present 'belief-but-non-action' that passes off as Christianity in most churches. I can encourage/critique/challenge people of all and no 'understandings' to accept their role in the earth and humanity, to the awareness that we all, even ISIS, are in this journey together, that we can respond (are responsible?) to and for each other, that only the law of    love will bring us through this journey into a lasting future.
  If we allow the  power of reaction, violence to violence, to prevail, in this instance and into the future, there is simply no future for us that I want to share. All governments will urge us to travel that path of easy answers. Only a rational loving people can oppose that assumption.                                       There is a chance, however small, that this challenge of Islamism will be remembered as the beginning of a change, the start of a movement where people of all stripes started to look at the world, to challenge the powers and  values that are responsible for the conditions that foster fundamentalism of all brands. May we stretch ourselves to see more than comes to us in the usual news.
  Please, ask yourself what the loving response is for you. And share your answer. Dialogue with your neighbour and try to imagine what that conversation would be like if you could talk to those who have been through enough to support ISIS.