No. The islamists are nor 'responding' to anything except their own jihadi imperative to bring about their Caliphate. This fills their entire horizon, & they would inevitably be doing this, whatever the reactions or responses of anyone else, which are merely tangential to their compulsions, if influential at all. The feeling of some self-righteous additional motivation which might accrue in the face of oppositional reactions might help a bit to harden their resolve ~~ it's always a great stimulus to feel oneself one of a chorus of a million lone voices crying in the wilderness: but is no sort of main trigger.

I expect Don will see this as further evidence of my imagined imminent application to join the EDL. Others less tunnel-visioned by their conditioning, which even a man of his apparent intelligence seems unable to break out of, will recognise the truth of what I have said.

~M~