All of this is nothing new, there were many leftist terrorist groups active in Europe during the 1960s-1980s and they pulled the same attacks as being seen now.
The scariest part though, is that many of the ISIS/ISIL jihadists are not ignorant peasants from the poorer parts of the Middle East and Asia looking for a way out of poverty, many of them are middle-class and educated and seeking a way to force regime changes to what they think will be better for the middle classes - they typically don't think too much about the poor (unless it's for propaganda).
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